Our collective narrative was being constructed in the film production / Nuestra narrativa colectiva se estaba construyendo en la producción cinematográfica

A conversation at the crossroads between militants, media production and research / Una conversación en la encrucijada entre los militantes, la producción mediática y la investigación

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https://doi.org/10.25267/COMMONS.2020.v9.i2.06

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020): The legacy of Paulo Freire in civil society development
Artículos del monográfico
186-210
Published: 21-12-2020
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  • Elisabet Cerqueira da Conceição (BR) MST National Coordination (Brazil)
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  • Luiz Enrique Gomes de Moura (BR) MST National Coordination (Brazil)
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  • Camila Freitas (BR) Graduate Programme in Visual Arts, UFRJ (Brazil)
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  • Paola Madrid Sartoretto (SE) Jönköping University (Sweden)
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Abstract

This text is based on a conversation between members in the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, a film producer and a media and communication researcher about the production process of the documentary Chão (Landless). Chão documents MST’s processes of land occupation and the battles to gain rights to land in the state of Goiás between 2014 and 2018. MST’s mobilization practices since the emergence of the Movement in 1984 have been much informed by Paulo Freire’s emancipatory pedagogy. The Movement’s historically situated social action constructs knowledge about reality at the same time that it changes reality. The documentary is an example of participatory media production in which the filmmaker and the militants constructed a narrative together from their different perspectives. This participatory process is used here as a departure point to discuss the experiential dynamics of the conscientization process from the different perspectives of research, media production, and militancy.

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Cerqueira da Conceição, E., Gomes de Moura, L. E., Freitas, C., & Sartoretto, P. M. (2020). Our collective narrative was being constructed in the film production / Nuestra narrativa colectiva se estaba construyendo en la producción cinematográfica: A conversation at the crossroads between militants, media production and research / Una conversación en la encrucijada entre los militantes, la producción mediática y la investigación. Commons. Revista De Comunicación Y Ciudadanía Digital, 9(2), 186–210. https://doi.org/10.25267/COMMONS.2020.v9.i2.06

Author Biographies

Elisabet Cerqueira da Conceição, MST National Coordination (Brazil)

Teacher and popular communicator from Bahia. Militant in MST since 2014 in the state of Goiás. Member in MST’s education collective where she oversees educational activities for children, youth and adults in MST’s settlemetns and occupied areas.

Luiz Enrique Gomes de Moura, MST National Coordination (Brazil)

Luiz comes from a peasant family in the state of Goiás and was born in Taguatinga, DF. He holds a PhD in Geography and is a militant in MST since 2002, participating in the sector for Production, Cooperation and Enviroment in Goiás and in MST’s national coordination and overseeing enviromental questions in the settlements, the advancement of agribusiness in Brazil and the implementation of public policies in these areas.

Camila Freitas, Graduate Programme in Visual Arts, UFRJ (Brazil)

Filmmaker and photography director with a degree in Film Studies from the Fluminense Federal University in Brazil and specialization in photography direction at Louis Lumière School in Paris. Camila is currently a master student in Visual Arts at Rio de Janeiro Federal University. “Landless” is her first long film, it premiered in the 69th Berlin Film Festival and featured in many international and national festivals winning a number of prizes.

Paola Madrid Sartoretto, Jönköping University (Sweden)

Researcher and educator in Media and Communication Studies at Jönköping University, Sweden where she teaches in the Master Programme in Sustainable Communication. Paola has carried out an ethographic study of communicative processes within MST and has published extensively about the interplay between communication and political mobilization.

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