May 21, 2023

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MANAUS (AM) – The Amazonian actor Adanilo, 32, defined the passage through the Cannes Film Festival 2023, in France, as a great milestone for his career and for the Amazonian people. With exclusivity to AMAZON AGENCY, he highlighted, this Sunday, 21, the representation of indigenous actors and actresses in the world’s largest film festival.

On Saturday the 20th, the artist, who is a native of Manaus, attended the launch of the film “Eureka”, in which he will be one of the protagonists of the plot, which has in the cast names like Viggo Mortensen (“The Lord of the Rings” and “Green Book”) and Chiara Mastroianni (“Persepolis”). The production, which takes in Argentina, the United States, Mexico and Portugal, is directed by Argentine Lisandro Alonso.

“To have an indigenous person being one of the protagonists of the film premiering in Cannes is magnificent. We, indigenous people, are not the stereotypes they try to think about us. We are in all spaces, we occupy all professions, all possible places, and we have always been in those places. In fact, we always will be, because Brazil is indigenous land”, he told CENARIUM.

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Adanilo also points out that the moment is significant for indigenous people, because spaces like this are often denied to these people, but commonly occupied by non-indigenous people. “We have conquered space within the Brazilian audiovisual market, not only me, but other great indigenous actors and actresses, not only from the Amazon, but from all over Brazil”, he adds.

Participation in works

Besides being an actor, Adanilo is a playwright and director for cinema and theater. During his career, he has acted in the feature films “Marighella”, by Wagner Moura; “Noites Alienígenas”, by Sérgio de Carvalho; “Eureka”, by Lisandro Alonso; “Oeste Outra Vez”, by Erico Rassi; “O Rio do Desejo”, by Sérgio Machado, and “Ricos de Amor 2”, by Bruno Garotti.

The Amazonian artist is part of the cast of the series “Segunda Chamada”, from Globo, directed by Joana Jabace; “Dom”, from Prime Vídeo, directed by Breno Silveira; “Cidade Invisível”, a Netflix original series, directed by Carlos Saldanha and “Um Dia Qualquer”, directed by Pedro Von Kruger, for the HBO+ streaming.

Origin and work

Adanilo is a descendant of native people from the regions of Baixo Solimões and Baixo Tapajós, between Amazonas and Pará. He has a technical background in Radio and TV and studied at the Escola Técnica de Teatro (ETET) Martins Penna, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ).

In 2012, Adanilo was a founding partner of Artrupe Produções along with other artists, producing work as an actor, playwright and director. In 2014 came the first performance in audiovisual, in the short film “The Girl with the Umbrella”, and the following year he acted in “That Road”, both directed by Rafael Ramos.

The actor also acted in “O Tempo Passa”, by Diego Bauer. The participation in the praised play “A Casa de Inverno” registered in “Formas de Voltar Para Casa” turned out to be his last work with the Amazonian group.

Indigenous leaders

Indigenous leaders walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, 19, like the cacique Raoni, for the release of the film “Raoni: an unlikely friendship”, produced by the Belgian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux. The leader is also scheduled to visit seven countries, from May 11 to June 14, in an international campaign organized by the French-Brazilian environmental association Floresta Virgem.

Accompanying the cacique on the trips are indigenous leaders Watatakalu, Tapi and Bomoro, in a movement that seeks to exalt the indigenous struggle outside Brazil, in order to gain support and protection for the country’s indigenous territories.

“We know that bringing this issue of the indigenous struggle, the protection of our territories, the protection of the forest, is important to the outside world, especially here in Europe, because we know that it is from here that we need the support”, said Chief Watatakalu in an interview with Radio France International.

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