Dear Jack,

We’re thrilled to offer you special access to a movie as part of our Uncontacted Tribes Week.

Corumbiara is a unique and award-winning journey into the Amazon, in which the anthropologist and filmmaker Vincent Carelli accompanies an investigator from the Brazilian Indigenous Affairs Agency (FUNAI), as they investigate a reported massacre of uncontacted Indigenous people by ranchers.

They encounter scattered groups of Indigenous survivors of attacks, including a small group of isolated Kanoê people, who help lead them in their investigation. One survivor they come across is the man who came to be known as “the man of the hole”, and this film features the first footage of him. Tragically, he died last year, having spent decades living entirely on his own after the rest of his tribe was massacred, probably by cattle ranchers.

Thanks to the film-maker himself, we’re delighted to be able to offer Survival supporters the chance to watch this remarkable movie online. 

If you support our urgent work for tribal peoples with a donation – of any amount – you will automatically receive the link to watch the movie. If you can’t afford a donation, please just email us at [email protected] with the subject ‘Corumbiara movie’ and we’ll send you the link directly. 

Feel free to invite your friends for a movie night! You can share more about Survival’s campaigns, and ask them to sign up to Survival’s Uncontacted Tribes Pledge. We’d love to see your photos, so do send them to us directly or simply post on your own social media and tag @Survival (Twitter, Facebook) and @survivalinternational (Instagram)!

If you’re attending Glastonbury Festival in the UK this week, please stop by our stall in the Tipi Field, part of the Green Fields, to chat to our team and find out more about what we’re doing to help stop the assaults on uncontacted tribal peoples.

The odds are massively stacked against Brazil’s uncontacted peoples. While their rights are openly recognized by the new government, they still face an array of heavily-armed and powerful ranchers, land-grabbers, agribusiness and politicians, all eyeing up the forests which are their home, the source of their livelihoods, and their last refuge.

It’s down to those of us who care to speak out. Please watch the film, and sign and share our pledge to support the most vulnerable peoples on Earth.

With thanks,

Caroline Pearce
Director
Survival International

P.S. If you’d like to opt out of Uncontacted Tribes Week 2023, follow this link, and you won’t receive more emails this week.