GUATÓ: UMA REMADA NO TEMPO

Filmed on a 15-day expedition in the Pantanal, the largest floodplain on the planet, the 8-episode series proposes a journey through time, from 5000 years ago to the present, to tell the story of the Guató people.
 

Along the 360km crossing from Ilha Ínsua, in the heart of the Pantanal, to the city of Corumbá, two high-performance rowers accompany an indigenous Guató rescuing ancestral experiences. The story goes from the creation of the “one-stick canoe”, coming out of a single tree trunk, to the construction of hundreds of embankments that resist for thousands of years the back and forth of the tides, the long trips, the encounters with European and African societies and the proximity that exists today with riverine, military and farmers.
 

Guató is the epic history of a people that was declared extinct in the 70’s by anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, but who resists as the last native people of the Pantanal to remain settled in the Pantanal plain.