Jungle Secrets
1998 | 00:37:00 | Brazil | Portuguese, Brazil | Color | Mono | 4:3 | Video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Indigenous, Performance, Post-colonialism


Four tales about cannibal monsters narrated and performed by the Waiãpi Indians. “We have made the video,” say the Waiãpi, “to teach people to be more careful with monsters they never heard about. Even a white man can be eaten as he goes into the forest.”
Directed by Vincent Carelli and Dominique Gallois.
Edited by Tutu Nunes.
In Waiãpi with English subtitles.
Prizes + Awards
Silver Award, 20th Tokyo Video Festival, January, 1998
Vitral Award, National Organization of Video and Film of Cuba, VI Indigenous Film and Video Festival of the Americas, Guatemala, 1999