Overview

Flying rivers flying again” is a program that aims to introduce the phenomenon of the flying rivers through films created in collaboration between students from Brazil and Uganda.

The rivers that fly on the sky are made of evapotranspiration, or the breathing vapor that forests produce after a process that “pumps” water from the ocean… even being far from the coast. Through this we have rain on inland regions

These rains don’t occur just around these forests but travel many miles by wind, and this is why they are called Flying Rivers.

You need big healthy forests like the Amazon rain forest to generate this phenomenon. And in Africa we have the Congo forest doing the same job. If these forests are gone the scale of this loss will be felt throughout their continents, with consequences around the world.

In a simple way to describe this, we could say that forests are factories of rain. Ancestral knowledge arrives at similar conclusions through different paths and we are proposing to students, from both Brazil and Uganda, to join forces, drumming noises, shared knowledge, ancestrality and inspiration to explain this phenomenon in a way that makes it easy to everyone understand.

During this process we want to recreate the same atmosphere of open heart with what nature works so get our forests connected, our rivers flying again and spread a call for action and collaboration.

This program is part of the project “Rewild yourself”, an initiative by the Brazilian multimedia production company Estudio Caleidoscopio with the support of Avias/ African Visual Artists Associates and Profis/ Insterdisciplinary program run by Unicamp University in Brazil.