This session focused on our 2024 Green Film Festival @UEA short film Kagarika eiroegi; Pairi? (English title: If Not Us Then Who?). The filmmaking team will facilitate a short intercultural exchange to be followed by the premiere of the film. Shot on a smartphone, the post film discussion will focus on the accessibility, sustainability and communicative possibilities of this mode of production especially for indigenous and remote communities. We will also discuss the processes of dialogue, exchange and collaboration that have guided this project from its outset. 

Panellists: 

Josept Luis Camacho Ñaco, Filmmaker

Juan Rubén Zevallos, Field Producer Perú, Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae

Jorge A. Ruiz Zevallos, Co-producer, PhD Candidate University of East Anglia 

Karina Aveyard, Executive Producer

 

Kagarika eiroegi; Pairi? (Nomatsiguenga); English title: If Not Us Then Who? 

Film Synopsis

In the central Peruvian Amazon, Josept Luis Camacho Ñaco, a young indigenous man from the Nomatsigenga Community of Boca Kiatari, shares his urgent message with the world. In a moving short film, the community comes together to preserve their natural environment, aware of the growing challenges of climate change and global warming. With a vision to protect the land for generations to come, this film documents their fight for a clean and healthy environment.

In a call to action, they remind us that the time to act is now.

 

Josept Luis Camacho Ñaco is the creative producer and filmmaker of Kagarika eiroegi; Pairi? He is currently a student at the Intercultural University of Nopoki. His previous films include Identity: A Living and Sustainable Culture in 2022 made at Nopoki and two projects in his community, one about the ancestral game of RonRon and the other about the preparation of Masato. He adds ‘Maybe I can’t change the world, but in the little piece where I live I want to make a difference’.

 

Juan Rubén Ruiz Zevallos is the Perú based Field Producer of Kagarika eiroegi; Pairi? Juan Rubén studied Anthropology at the National University of San Marcos. He holds the title of “Expert in Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and International Cooperation” from Carlos III University of Madrid. He currently works as an Intercultural Specialist for the Chancellor’s Office at Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae.

 

Jorge A. Ruiz Zevallos is the Co-Producer of Kagarika eiroegi; Pairi?. Jorge is a PhD student in Film Studies at UEA. He was an intern in Public Engagement for the “(Re)Defining Culture: Engaging urban Fijian youth in sustainable employment opportunities in the cultural heritage sector” and also led the workshop “Indigenous filmmaking as a tool for dialogue and democratic practice” at the Intercultural University of Nopoki in 2022.

 

Karina Aveyard is the Executive Producer of Kagarika eiroegi; Pairi? She is the Director of the Green Film Festival @UEA, an Associate Professor at UEA in film and media and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Art & Humanities.