“They are not alone”: A new animated series seeks to raise awareness about the climate crisis and the situation of Chaco indigenous peoples
The Encarnaceno animation studio Zet Studios, with the support of the National Directorate of Intellectual Property (Dinapi), the Amotocodie Initiative and the Planetarium Music Studio, will premiere on Monday, December 5 at the Granados Encarnación Cinema at 8:00 p.m., “They are not alone”. , the first episode of a series on the consequences of deforestation in the Chaco.
“They are not alone” narrates true situations that occur in the Paraguayan Chaco such as deforestation, the eviction of indigenous peoples and the intentional burning of native forests. Through brief animated episodes, the audiovisuals seek to tell in a creative and moving way both the situation of the Chaco and the Chaco indigenous peoples to children, adolescents, as well as the general public.
The first episode seeks to be a tribute to the Nivaclé artists Clemente Juliuz and Marcos Ortiz, in order to bring the artistic expressions of the Chaco indigenous peoples closer and promote their artists to more audiences through animation, among them the enlhet artist Ronaldo Unruh and various others.
The production of the animation studio based in Encarnación, Zet Studios, has a direction and script by Mathias Maciel, a soundtrack by Fran Villalba and animation by José Araujo, Alan Paiva and Andrea Osorio.
“They are not alone” will be available through the Kili Video platform
Some worrying current data about the Paraguayan Chaco:
Every day, the Paraguayan Chaco loses around 800 hectares of forests, which represents one of the fastest deforestation rates on the planet. It is as if the largest stadium in Paraguay, the Defensores del Chaco, was cut down 600 times every day.
At least 15 Chaco indigenous peoples are threatened, including the only isolated groups outside of the Amazon: the Ayoreos in voluntary isolation.
Deforestation puts at risk around 4,000 species of plants, 150 mammals, 120 reptiles, 500 birds, 100 amphibians, that is, one of the richest ecosystems on the continent.
