Hosts for Half a Century (Anfitriões há meio século)
The film presents the perspective of the Mỹky people on 50 years of contact with the non-Indigenous population, reflecting about their way of life and the changes experienced in the last half century.
Directors Spotlight
Typju Mỹky
Director
Typju Mỹky is an indigenous Filmmaker and Pedagogy student, he lives in the Japuíra Village, in Myky indigenous territory, in the Brazilian Amazon. He began working in audiovisual production in 2015 and made his first documentary in 2019: “Ãjãí, the headball game of the Mỹky and Manoki”, which received awards in Brazil and internationally.
André Tupxi Lopes
Director
André Tupxi Lopes is an anthropologist and filmmaker, working with indigenous people for the last 17 years. He is a founding member of Ijã Mytyli Indigenous Cine Collective. Among some of his award-winning works, his film “New York, just another city” won the Marsh Short Film Prize in 2021, at the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival.
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 39 minutes
- Country
- Brazil
- Language
- Portuguese, Mỹky
- Director
- Typju Mỹky & André Tupxi Lopes
- Producer
- André Tupxi Lopes, Kamty Mỹky, Malu Vieira, Typju Mỹky
- Executive Producer
- André Tupxi Lopes, Malu Vieira
- Cast
- Bartolo Warakuxi, Kamunu Mỹky, Kopa Mỹky, Maty Mỹky, Patau Mỹky, Tupy Mỹky, Xinuxi Mỹky
- Cinematographer
- Taka Mỹky, Typju Mỹky
- Editor
- André Tupxi Lopes, Marcelo Eme, Typju Mỹky, Vitor Campanario
- Composer
- Mỹky People Nativos, MC's - Trap indígena ft. Kandu Puri
- Sound Design
- Guilherme Barros
- Premiere
- Philadelphia