Current Project
This section gathers the projects we are actively developing in the present moment. The communities we are walking alongside, the territories we are in dialogue with, and the creative processes unfolding through shared time, trust, and collaboration.
Our projects are rooted in collaboration, care, and shared creation.
From films and community-based storytelling to gatherings, and cultural exchanges, each project emerges from close relationships with the communities.
Together, we explore art as a tool for memory, resistance, and healing; building pathways toward ecosocial justice and imagining futures grounded in dignity, reciprocity, and collective wisdom.
Quilombola Community of Santa Maria do Muraiteua
Education and Audiovisual Production
(Pará, Brazil. December 2025 – Present)
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 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)
A film co-created with the Quilombola community
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...
The children’s laughter, the elders’ wisdom, and the deep resilience in their eyes are indescribable.”
Previous Projects: BRAZIL, Nov 2025
10 - 21 Nov 2025 - Belém, BRAZIL
AYELE at COP30
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the AYELE team stood with over 50,000 voices demanding true climate and social justice. While corporations spoke on stage, Indigenous and frontline communities were silenced. We highlighted that climate solutions must center those most affected, amplifying truths that do not fit on corporate platforms. The AYELE team filmed, recorded and interviewed Indigenous and local communities, amplifying experiences, traditions, and perspectives on environmental stewardship.
20 Noviembre, 2025 - BRAZIL (COP30)
Inner Rivers - Event
A community journey where yoga, storytelling, and Amazonian wisdom come together to explore inner strength, collective care, and new paths for mental-health justice.
Organized in collaboration with local partners and AYELE, this gathering weaves movement, breath, and lived experiences to highlight the importance of community mental health as a pillar of climate justice.
Previous Encounters: ECUADOR, 2025
26 - 31 October, 2025 - ECUADOR
Tejernos - Artist Residency
An artistic residency and transdisciplinary gathering dedicated to connection, craft, and care, created in collaboration with the Tsáchila community in Ecuador. The program invites artists and participants to create “knots” of encounter between ancestral knowledge, contemporary practices, and community needs.
TEJER-NOS proposes creative, ecological, and community-rooted approaches that strengthen collective resilience.
8 December, 2025 - Pastaza, ECUADOR
AYELE at the Amazon Women’s Assembly
AYELE participated in and documented the Amazon Women’s Assembly held in Pastaza, Ecuador, accompanying a full day of collective organization, dialogue, and community-led action. The assembly brought together women from multiple Indigenous communities, creating a space grounded in leadership, knowledge exchange, and the defense of territory, water, and life.
We captured key moments of the gathering, including cultural expressions, intergenerational participation, and presentations of community-based initiatives led by the Kapari Warmi School. These projects reflected concrete strategies to strengthen local well-being, leadership, and capacity-building processes.
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Documentaries - interviews - audiovisual Poetry
Through these narratives, we amplify stories that have long been silenced, honor the knowledge of past generations, and open pathways toward healing and transformation.
We invite you to co-create a lasting impact with us
If you have a proposal that seeks to generate collective, reciprocal, and sustainable impact, we invite you to collaborate with us.
We want to work with artists, reforesters, creators, collectives, and communities who wish to co-create meaningful processes. We are open to collaborating and building long-term relationships based on care, respect, and mutual learning.
Our gatherings focus on Indigenous rights, human rights, the rights of nature, and collective healing, weaving creativity, ancestral wisdom, and community action into projects that foster social, cultural, and ecological transformation.