Profecia Tabajara da Paraíba.

Abstract

This research report aims to present the research and development process of a documentary short film script, entitled Prophecy Tabajara da Paraíba, whose theme focuses on the history of the struggle to retake the Tabajara indigenous people of Paraíba. The Tabajara, since the end of the 19th century, were silenced and made invisible, even being considered extinct. However, the young Ednaldo Tabajara, Ednaldo dos Santos Silva, becoming aware of the existence of his people who were dispersed, decides, together with some family members, to fight for the reunificationand reorganization of their traditions and customs. In this decision to reconnect his people, Ednaldo Tabajara comes to know the prophecy narrated by the old trunk Antônio Piaba, a respected elder, who said that one day a strong and capable young manwould come and fight for the rescue of the Tabajara indigenous people and reunite his people. Ednaldo takes this prophecy to himself and starts a whole job of looking for his family. The documentary script here in question aims to present the Tabajara history today. The research for this report has theoretical support in authors who study this theme, such as: Barcellos and Eliane Farias (2015) and Barcellos and Figueredo (2019). We conducted a research on the writing and script construction methods of the authors Puccini (2007) and Field (2001), in addition to interviews and documentary surveys, thus enabling a basis in the construction of the documentary script. We also researched the beginning of the documentary in Brazil through the authors Gonçalves (2006) and Rodrigues (2010). In addition, a study was carried out on the construction of theindigenous documentary based on authors such as Costa and Galdino (2018). Then, we made an analysis about the Videos in the Villages project based on the author Lacerda (2018). Finally, we undertook a study on specific festivals with indigenous themes inthe light of the theoretical contributions of Freitas (2019).