Mari Correa

Mari Corrêa has been a producer, editor, and director of documentary films for over twenty years. She studied social science at Pont ifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and cinema at the Université de Paris III. Corrêa began her career editing documentaries for independent French filmmakers and European television. Since 1998, she has been a co-director of Video in the Villages.

Video in the Villages Presents Itself

In 1987, The Video in the Villages project was founded in Brazil to give indigenous people control over their own representation, and to give them the power to use the media for their goals. This video documents the process of training and the first videos made by the project’s indigenous videomakers. It also shows the national conferences where indigenous producers…