Community Projects

Our work with the community integrates social work methodologies and media practices, strengthening community capacities and promoting historical memory, including:

· Workshops with children and youth

· Training in communication and audiovisual storytelling

· Collective design & development of a documentary

· Documentation of territorial memory

· Documentary production and editing in active collaboration with the community (currently in post-production)

· Adaptation of content for different audiovisual distribution formats

· Creation of a decolonial Quilombola history book including contemporary narratives from the community (currently ongoing)

This project is not just a documentary, it is a shared heartbeat. Every frame of this film carries fingerprints of love, ancestry, and territory.

A co-creation with the children, leaders, elders of the Quilombola community of Santa Maria do Murateua, near Pará, Brazil, and the AYELE team. 

Quilombolas are Afro-Brazilian communities descended from enslaved Africans. They resisted colonial oppression by carving out free territories in the forest. They carry centuries of resilience, cultural memory, and guardianship of the land. Their culture pulses with rhythm, storytelling, capoeira, and the values of family and community, where every gesture, every dance, and every shared meal strengthens the bonds that hold them together.

This film grows in the sacred soil of their home. This territory is abundant and alive, and it is a profound honor to walk beside them, learning from their courage, their joy, and their unwavering connection to each other and the land.

We were welcomed as part of the family

Embraced by open arms and radiant smiles. From the moment our AYELE team arrived, we felt we are arriving home.

“From the first moment we arrived in Santa Maria do Murateua, we felt as if we had arrived home. A place where belonging is embraced with the whole body, and each one of us is part of each other’s story...