Release Year: 2018

Duration: 35 minutes

Screenplay and Direction: Patrick Granja

Editing: Patrick Granja and Victor Ribeiro

Post-production: Rafael Chacon

Production Assistant: Marcelo Chalreo

Executive Production: Kaliman Chiappini

Support: Bombozila, Pedrada Filmes, Chiappini Filmes, OAB/RJ

Soundtrack: Weena Tikuna & Anton Carballo

Social Media: Juliana Guajajara

 

SYNOPSIS: A documentary about the ethno-environmental impacts of the actions of miners, loggers, drug traffickers, and illegal fishermen and hunters in the Javari Valley and Upper Solimões. Deforestation, diseases, and river pollution primarily affect isolated peoples and those of recent contact. The film follows the investigation of a massacre committed by miners against one of these groups in 2017.

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SURIMÃ is now available on bombozila.com, a free streaming platform for independent films that portray the lives and struggles of different peoples.

The documentary was filmed in December 2017, in the same place where journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira would be murdered years later.

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We take this opportunity, with the start of this new cycle of our film's debut on a streaming platform, to pay tribute to one of the film’s subjects, the former coordinator of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley, Paulo Marubo, who passed away in February 2024 due to chronic hepatitis.