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Alex Pritz is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Documist. Recently, Alex directed The Territory, which premiered at Sundance 2022 where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft.
The Territory is a 2022 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Alex Pritz. It follows a young Indigenous leader of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people fighting back against farmers, colonizers and settlers who encroach on a protected area of the Amazon Rainforest.
- Showing All Sides of The Conflict
- Taking Control of The Narrative
- Working to Ensure A Lasting Impact
Bandeira acts as a gateway of sorts, coordinating access to the Uru-eu-wau-wau. Once she knew that the story was in good hands with theTerritory team, she connected them with Bitatè Uru-eu-wau-wau, 22, the new president of the Jupaú Association, an Indigenous leadership body that engages with the government. (Members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau use the w...
When Pritz first arrived, a linguist from outside the community was hoping to embark on a project of documenting the native language of the older generations, Tupi-Kawahiva, so it could be taught in local schools. The six villages of the Uru-eu-wau-wau got together to discuss and vote—their consensus was ultimately no. The linguist was not allowed ...
Marianna Olinger, the film’s impact producer, has been spearheading efforts to help build a multimedia and cultural center in the Uru-eu-wau-wau territory using both traditional architecture and modern designs. The center will include a production studio, podcasting area, equipment storage, and editing bays—designed for the Uru-eu-wau-wau to keep t...
Alex Pritz is a documentary film director and cinematographer focused on human’s relationship with the natural world. Pritz’s directorial debut, THE TERRITORY, premiered in the World Cinema...
Feb 1, 2022 · Alex Pritz and co-cinematographer Tangae Uru-eu-wau-wau bring to life and to light a beautiful, devastating, and riveting story of resilience, a fight for survival, and the pursuit of sharing the truth with the world.
Jan 28, 2022 · Chronicling the struggle of Indigenous people in Brazil to protect their ancestral land, Alex Pritz’s debut documentary was made with the production involvement of the Uru-eu-wau-wau community....
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Jan 23, 2022 · Alex Pritz's lean, well-made documentary sides with the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people in a vicious turf war between them and industrial invaders of their native land.
