(this page was last updated in July 2024)
Pau Brasil, Brazil, 1989.
Lives and works in Pau Brasil, Brazil.
PIPA Prize 2024 nominee.
Olinda Tupinambá is an indigenous woman from the Tupinambá and Pataxó Hãhãhãe peoples, journalist, curator, performance artist, filmmaker and environmental activist. The aesthetic and political artivism of Olinda’s work breaks with the stereotypes and racism that hang over indigenous peoples. Her work takes to the screen to echo the voices of ancestry, which denounce oppression and demarcate the existence of indigenous peoples. She shows that indigenous people are contemporary, living in the present time, seeking references in the indigenous past to resignify and update.
Website: yawar.art.br/portfolio & instagram.com/olinda_yawar_wanderley
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2024:
“ Trailer Mulheres que Alimentam”, 2020. Duration 1’10”
“ Teaser Kaapora”, 2021. Duration 1’10”
“ Equilibrio”, 2021. Duration 11’33”
“ PRECONCEITO por Olinda Yawar Tupinambá”, 2021. Duration 5’06”
“ Carregue, transmita ao vivo e crie seus próprios vídeos, tudo em HD.”, 2022. Duração 1’31”
“ Teaser 1 Ibirapema”, 2022. Duração 0’34”
Olinda Tupinambá is an indigenous woman from the Tupinambá and Pataxó Hãhãhãe peoples, journalist, curator, performance artist, filmmaker and environmental activist. The aesthetic and political artivism of Olinda’s work breaks with the stereotypes and racism that hang over indigenous peoples. Her work takes to the screen to echo the voices of ancestry, which denounce oppression and demarcate the existence of indigenous peoples. She shows that indigenous people are contemporary, living in the present time, seeking references in the indigenous past to resignify and update.
Curator of film festivals and exhibitions, including Cine Kurumin (2020) and (2021) Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema (2020) and (2021) 1st Indigenous Film and Culture Festival – FeCCI 2022. Producer of two film shows: Mostra Paraguaçu de Cinema Indígena (2017) and Amotara – (2021). She was a jury member for the 24th International Environmental Film and Video Festival (2023).
Olinda has been working with audiovisuals since the end of 2015. Between documentaries, fiction and performance, she has produced and directed 10 independent audiovisual works. Among her most important films artistically are the award-winning film festivals Kaapora and Ibirapema, both produced with the support of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in its art promotion activities, Equilíbrio which is a production supported by UFBA and SUSSEX, O Parto which was part of the exhibition O Manjar Nascente at Solar dos Abacaxis and also in the exhibition histórias indígenas at MASP, Lili which is a self-funded production and Ibirapitanga which won the award for best Brasil Fantástico film at Cine Fantasy.
Education
– Education: Social Communication with a major in Journalism from Faculdades Integradas Ipitanga FACIIP.
– Complementary training: Screenwriter, film production.
Executive Production in Film Exhibitions
2021
– Amotara – Olhares das Mulheres Indígenas; CONDECINE EXEMPTION AUTHORIZATION – 17-E / SRG/SRE/ CRO Exhibitions and Festivals Process No. 01416.001256/2021-58 Issue Date: February 18, 2021 Approved for the 2019 Audiovisual Sectorial Public Notice – FCBA (access here)
2017
– Mostra Paraguaçu de Cinema Indígena; CONDECINE EXEMPTION AUTHORIZATION – 344-E / SRE/ CRC Exhibitions and Festivals Process No. 01416.028668/2017-59 Issue Date: November 30, 2017 (access here)
Curatorships and Juries in Exhibitions and Festivals
2023
– FICA – International Environmental Film and Video Festival, 24th edition. Juror.
2022
– 1st Indigenous Culture and Film Festival, Brasília Curator.
2021
– Mostra Amotara “Olhares das Mulheres Indígenas” 2 edition, Pau Brasil and others. Production, Executive Production, Coordination, Curator.
– 5th Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema, Curator.
– 6th Women’s Place at the Movies, Curator
– Cine Kurumin Indigenous Film Festival. 8th edition Curator.
– 10th Recife International Ethnographic Film Festival – Indigenous Women Filmmakers Showcase, Curator
2020
– Festival for More Women and Diversity on Screen and Behind the Audiovisual Cameras, script for the fiction series Cabíria Festival. Curator
– UNIDAS – Women in Dialogues, Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia. Curator.
– Other Amerindian Cinemas: New perspectives on indigenous audiovisual production. Networked Cinemas, National Education and Research Network. Curator.
– Cine Kurumin Indigenous Film Festival 7th edition, Recife and Brasília. Curator.
2017
– Paraguaçu Indigenous Film Festival 1st edition, Caramuru Indigenous Land, Pau Brasil. Producer, Curator, Director of audiovisual work shown in the program.
Executive Production in Film Exhibitions
2021
– Amotara – Olhares das Mulheres Indígenas; CONDECINE EXEMPTION AUTHORIZATION – 17-E / SRG/SRE/ CRO Exhibitions and Festivals Process No. 01416.001256/2021-58 Issue Date: February 18, 2021 Approved for the 2019 Audiovisual Sectorial Public Notice – FCBA
2017
– Paraguaçu Indigenous Film Festival; CONDECINE EXEMPTION AUTHORIZATION – 344-E / SRE/ CRC Exhibitions and Festivals Process No. 01416.028668/2017-59 Issue Date: November 30, 2017
Executive Productions and Direction of Cinematographic Works
To check the CPB for each work, click here
2022
– Lili. Brazil. Fiction 28min 59 sec. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Protagonist CPB B2200107900000
– Ibirapema. Brazil. Fiction 50min and 20 sec. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Performer CPB B2200246500000
Executive Producer in Film Exhibitions
2021
– Amotara – Olhares das Mulheres Indígenas; CONDECINE EXEMPTION AUTHORIZATION – 17-E / SRG/SRE/ CRO Exhibitions and Festivals Process No. 01416.001256/2021-58 Issue Date: February 18, 2021 Approved for the 2019 Audiovisual Sectorial Public Notice – FCBA
– Ibirapitanga. Brazil. Fiction 07 min 55 sec. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Performer CPB B2300010900000
2021
– PreConceito. Brazil. Music video 05min and 10 sec. Produced by: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Performer CPB B2100093900000
– Health of the Earth. Brazil. DOC 24min and 44 sec. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editing CPB B2100388200000
– Childbirth. Brazil. Fiction 08min 38 sec. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Performer and Protagonist CPB B2100482400000
2018
– Women Who Feed. Brazil. DOC 96min. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Editing CPB B1800147700000
– Kaapora The Call of the Woods. Brazil. Fiction/DOC 19min 57 sec. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Editor, Protagonist CPB B2000323300000
– Equilibrium. Brazil. Fiction/DOC 11min 33 sec. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Performer CPB B2000463300000
2015
– Resume to Exist. Brazil. DOC 20min. Production: Olinda Muniz Wanderley. Executive Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor CPB B1700480200000
Consultancy work, Call for Proposals, Participation in Judging Committees etc
2024
– Cinema’s relationship with the territory. University of Lisbon – Institute of Social Sciences
2023
– Evaluation and Selection Committee for cultural proposals included in Call for Proposals 002/2023 Salcine, Audiovisual of Salvador City Council.
2022
– Judging Committee for Notice 02/2022/Spcine – Production of low-budget feature films. State of São Paulo
2021
– Member of the Thematic Technical Advisory Groups for the 14th and 15th Funcultura Audiovisual Calls for Proposals of the Pernambuco State Government
“ CINEMA INDÍGENA | SOTERÓPOLIS”, 2021. Duration 4’11”
“ Repórter Eco | 24/10/21”, 2021. Duration 26’35”
“ Atos Modernos – Olinda Tupinambá”, 2022. Duration 3’38”