'Using footage shot by the Uru-ea-wau-wau people, 'The Territory' is an up close look at the struggle to defend the Amazon from illegal settlers and loggers.'
"This is how Brazil was created, and many other countries too," says one settler interviewed in the film, who wistfully invokes God, country and competition to justify encroachment."People are coming to claim their land. And if you don't claim it, someone else will."
"Send us the shot list—we've got it from here," he retorts to one producer attempting to send a film crew into the territory. Yet, it's clear that the villagers' self-documentation cuts deeper than a clever storytelling tactic. Throughout the film, visibility is a constant struggle. One farmer, in arguing against the Indigenous claims to the land, says that he'd never seen an Indigenous person in the territory, which is roughly three times the size of Delaware and home to fewer than 200 Uru-ea-wau-wau—the result of decades of disease and displacement following the area's contact with settlers in 1981.
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