Brazilian feature “Uýra – A Retomada da Floresta”, directed by Juliana Curi, is in the official selection of the 46th Frameline International Film Festival, which takes place in June, in California.
“Uýra – A Retomada da Floresta”, directed by Juliana Curi and written by Martina Sönksen and Uýra Sodoma, will make its world premiere in the official selection of the 46th Frameline International Film Festival, the most important LGBTQIA+ Festival in the world. Founded in 1977, Frameline International Film Festival is the oldest, largest and most widely recognized LGBTQ+ film screening event in the world and the 2022 edition takes place June 6-26 in San Francisco.
The biopic follows Uýra, a hybrid Amazonian entity lived by trans-indigenous artist and biologist Emerson Pontes, who travels through the Amazon rainforest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art to teach indigenous and riverine youth that they are the guardians of the Amazon rainforest’s ancestral messages.
The feature features the participation of artists, activists and indigenous leaders such as Zahy Guajajara and the Kambeba Dona Babá leadership, in addition to Uýra’s performances that are a metaphor inspired by the ecological cycle and mirror social struggles.
“Uýra – A Retomada da Floresta” is a co-production between Brazil and the United States, directed by Juliana Curi and produced by Uýra Sodoma, João Henrique Kurtz, Lívia Cheibub and Martina Sönksen, distributed by Olhar Distribuição, with commercial debut scheduled for the 2nd semester of 2022.
Juliana Curi is a Brazilian director, screenwriter and visual artist. Influenced by Cinema Novo and with a strong background in journalism, she began her career in the creative department of MTV Brasil developing sociocultural impact campaigns on Climate Justice, HIV and Micropolitical Movements aimed at Brazilian youth.
Since then Juliana has been awarded by UN Women with the P&G campaign that aims to break gender stereotypes in Latin America, was awarded with the 2021 Bric Brooklyn Film+TV Resident, signs the film-manifesto Stereotipos to launch More Grls, the first platform for female talents in Brazil that aims to fight gender inequality, and signs the exhibitions Pink Intervention (Spotte Art NY Gallery, Artsy) and A Batalha do Corpo (Centro Cultural São Paulo).
Uýra Sodom (1991, Santarém, Pará) is a hybrid entity that intertwines scientific biological knowledge and the ancestral wisdom of indigenous peoples. He calls the plants by their popular and Latin names, but evokes their medicinal properties, taste, smell, and powers. The result is an intricate and complex understanding of the forest, a web of knowledge and research. Uýra introduces himself as “a tree that walks”. Born in 2016, during the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, when the biologist decided to expand his academic research and seek ways to bring the debate on the environment, conservation and LGBT rights to communities around Manaus. Through biology classes or photographic performances, using makeup and camouflage, texts and installations, Uýra talks about and with the forest.
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