Eliane Brum

Eliane Brum is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. Recognised in 2020 as Brazil’s most awarded reporter, she received the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Award from the Columbia University School of Journalism in 2021. A columnist for El País, Brum also writes for The Guardian and The New York Times, and is a founder of the journalism platform SUMAÚMA, which was launched in 2022 to “tell stories that happen in the Amazon and other parts of the planet from the jungle and the perspectives of its various peoples”. Since 2017 she has been living and working in Altamira in the Middle Xingu region of the Amazon and one of the main centres of destruction of the rainforest. In addition to directing documentaries, she has published eight books in Brazil (seven non-fiction and one novel), as well as appearing in jointly authored collections of reports, short stories, and essays. Her book BANZEIRO ÒKÒTÓ: The Amazon as the Center of the World has recently been published in Spanish as La Amazonia. Viaje al centro del mundo (Salamandra, 2024).