My name is Txai Suruí, I am only 24 years old, but my people have lived in the Amazon rainforest for over 6,000 years. The film, created using stop-motion and 2D animation, outlines the memorable and historic speech that Txai Suruí gave on behalf of indigenous peoples at the opening of the UN Conference on the State of the Environment (COP-26: in Glasgow, Scotland) in 2021.

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• Movie block: 3. Protect the Land on any land 2 (10+)
• Competition category: TEENS JUNIORS
• Year of origin: 2022
• Country of origin: Brazil
• Duration : 4:00 min
• Authors / staff:

  Kolektiv dětí / Collective of students:
  Clara Torres Verani, Tiago Juruena, Ian de Paula Lacerda, Olívia Machado Rodrigues de Carvalho, Omar kiperman Diniz, Rebeca Macieira, Davi Madeira, Rebeca Quintanilha de Souza, Bernardo Peçanha, Eric Juruena, João Mazur Mourelle, João Cordovil Costa Gualda Pereira, Malu Rocha Silveira, Adam Rodrigues Birke Rasmussen, Beatriz Pimentel, Laura dos Santos Gripp de Souza, Pedro Selles Dantas, Benício Silveira, Clara Lomêu Cabral, Juliana Vasques, Vicente Duarte Ferraz, Sophia Kassiadou, Nicolas C. Sgarbi, Miguel Sampaio Ferreira
  
  Lektoři / Instrunctors:
  Alexandre Juruena

• Other information:

  The filmmakers are 14 to 16 year old students of the Escola Parque High School in Rio de Janeiro as part of the Multimedia Project - the film featured, among other things, paintings by students of the Escola Parque Visual Arts Project (under the direction of Professor Eduardo Simões).
  
  Txai Suruí, the central figure of the film, is a Brazilian indigenous activist leader from the Paiter-Suruí ethnic group. She was the only indigenous person in Latin America and the only Brazilian to speak at COP-26. Her speech was delivered to more than 100 heads of state and resonated across the planet.
  
  The film was screened the following year at COP-27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, as part of a panel in which Txai Suruí participated.

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