The Film
Capacity-building materials:
Video booklet, with questions for conversation circles and more information
Simple printable version with questions for conversation circles
Synopsis
The video “Consultation Protocols: Instrument for the Defense of Territories and Rights” was produced by International Rivers and directed by Todd Southgate. It portrays an initiative that emerged within the movements of indigenous peoples and other traditional communities that aims to ensure the right to free, prior and informed consultation and consent on policies and projects that affect their territories and lives.
It has 28 mins and is divided into four parts, in the first part it contextualizes the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consultation and Consent in relation to the 1988 Brazilian Constitution and the Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, from the Organization of American States (OAS), and its relation to the right of self-determination, or the right decide what you want for your land and people.
Kapó woman, Piraçu Village. Brazil, Mato Grosso, 2020 
Photo from a video about the Wajãpi people
In the second part, it explains what the Autonomous Consultation and Consent Protocols are, which serve to determine how the consultation process with each people or community will be carried out and why they arose, due to the government’s disrespect to the right of consultation or its culturally inappropriate implementation. The Wajãmpi were the first Brazilian people to create a Protocol, and Jatuta Wajãmpi tells us a little about the experience.
Then, the video shows what should be considered in the elaboration of the protocols. In the words of Leonardo Rikbaktsa, Maria Leusa Kabá and Vanuza Cardoso, the preparation of the documents of the consultation protocols must respect the culture and decision-making of each people, including the language and time it takes for each community to make their decisions, and include all members.
At the end, it highlights the important role of unity and persistence of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, riverside communities, and other traditional communities and how this instrument can be a tool to defend their territories and rights, to build towards a better future.
What are Consultation and Consent Protocols?
The Consultation and Consent Protocols are documents prepared by each indigenous people or traditional community which establishes the form and process in which they want to be consulted, in a way that respects their cultures, traditions, and social organization.
Free, Prior and Informed Consultation (FPIC) is a process based on the self-determination of peoples, which must be done in good faith, initiated by the Government, according to the procedure indicated by peoples and communities. At the end of this process, people and communities can issue their consent, propose an agreement or even say NO to the object of the consultation.
Making Of
Nayra Paye, from COIAB, the video’s narrator in Portuguese 
Eva Canoé, indigenous leader and COIAB counselor 
Bel Juruna during the video’s filming
About the Director
Todd Southgate is an award-winning environmental filmmaker & cinematographer with fieldwork in over 30 countries. He has dedicated 25 years of his life to television production & journalism and 18 years exclusively to environmental communications. He has extensive experience covering the Amazon rainforest & the Belo Monte hydroelectric project, among others.
Credits
- Direction and Editing: Todd Southgate
- Narration: Nayra Paye (Portuguese), Monti Aguirre (Spanish), Todd Southgate (English)
- Interviewees: Andreia Fanzeres, Antonio Oliveira, Bel Juruna, Bruno Caporrino, Doto Taka Ire, Iremar Ferreira, Jatuta Wajãmpi, Kumaré Wajãpi, Leonardo Rikbaktsa, Minã Myky, Maria Leusa Kabá, Rodrigo Oliveira, Vanuza Cardoso and Umenã Myky.
- Music: Marlui Miranda
- Script: Anna Maria Cárcamo, Biviany Rojas Garzon, Brent Millikan, Isabel Harari, Johny Giffoni, Liana Lima, Todd Southgate
- Additional Images: Todd Southgate, Instituto Kabú, Darcy Ribeiro Foundation, Greenpeace Brasil, Juliana Pesqueira
- Production Assistants: Anna Maria Cárcamo, Pablo Montiel, Filipe Ferreira Marques, Rafael Maranhão
- Additional music: Audioblocks, Daniel M. Ring, Christina Nemo
- Special thank you: Nayra Paye Kaxuyana, Marlui Miranda Cristina Orpheo, Erika Yamada, Inimá Krenak, Maíra Krenak
- Supporting documents: Anna Maria Cárcamo, Brent Millikan, Johny Giffoni, Todd Southgate
- Support: Mott Foundation, Moore Foundation
Other relevant materials (in Portuguese)
- Protocolos de Consulta Prévia e o Direito à Livre Determinação, Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo
- Guia de Protocolos, RCA
- Protocolos de Consulta e Consentimento Prévio, Fase:
- Oxfam infographic
International Treaties and Declarations
- Convention 169, International Labor Organization (ILO):
- American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Organization of American States (OAS)
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), United Nations (UN)
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