Make Jabujicaba the Movie.

Project aim

We write. Challenge. Inspire. Use our stories to drive conservation. Because Brazil’s amazing rainforests are precious to all.

             “Jabujicaba”

                                                      (pronounced  Dja-boo-djee-kah-ba)

                             Novel, Theatre, Film and Debate

… BRAZIL IS BANKRUPT … THE AMAZON IS UP FOR AUCTION …

WE ARE story-tellers who inspire and engage new action to protect and conserve Brazil’s rainforests.

WE BELIEVE that stories are powerful tools for learning and catalysts for change. That is why we write, act, direct, debate, film our rainforest stories – and sometimes rap.

WE FOUNDED Voices for Nature in June 2014 (a not-for-profit company) and began to test our ideas.

We have lots of amigos no Brasil. Oi todos os nossos amigos! (hi!).

Jabujicaba is our eco-thriller set in Brazil. Brazil is bankrupt and the Amazon is up for auction…. Our novel is a redemption myth. Jabujicaba the Movie is a cross over between Apocalypse Now and a rainforest Erin Brockovich as Carmen the heroine turns from journalist to eco-activist. Screenplay tasters daily on our FB page.

Jabujicaba‘s characters are on learning journeys which lead them (and the reader) to ask FUNDAMENTAL questions about Brazil’s rainforests, about our relationship with the natural world and with each other. And, of course, take individual action together to save it!

Using Jabujicaba we at Voices for Nature work with young people in UK secondary schools to debate issues raised in the novel from the view point of its characters. In 2014/5 we successfully piloted the Jabuji Debates as our flagship project. We rolled the pilot out 2015/6 as a national competition. The JABUJI DEBATES 2106 finals were hosted and supported by Eton College (as was the pilot). The finalists were sixth formers from state schools in Kent, London and Berkshire.  A very senior Master of Eton College sent us an e-mail after attending the Jabuji Debate finals writing “I thought that this was an extraordinary day giving an unprecedented opportunity for young people to have an accelerated development of a range of skills. I do hope that we can continue from where we have left off in the future. Thank you for bringing this idea to us.”

NOW WE WANT to do just that: ‘Continue from where we have left off’ and RAMP UP OUR IMPACT. To do so we need YOUR HELP.

Voices for Nature is making a BIG SCREEN MOVIE based on Jabujicaba The screenplay is written.  Snippets of the screen play are being posted on our Facebook page

We have high profile support from famous names in the business, conservationists, anthropologists and others, in the UK and Brazil. The production company Jabujicaba Ltd is formed and we are in the final stages of development.

A movie reaches MILLIONS with its messages. It also drives the sales of the book on which it is based. For us this is a SIMPLE VIRTUOUS CIRCLE. Audience + Readers + Royalties = More Audience + More Readers + More Royalties. This will allow Voices for Nature to:

Place the Jabuji Debates permanently on the UK school calendar The Jabuji Debates are the first dedicated environmental geo-political debates in the UK.

Kickstart another innovative conservation project owned by young people In 2015 we financially supported Uncharted Amazon as executive producers. Three young grads made a professional feature-length documentary to raise awareness of the threat of illegal logging in a remote and endangered part of the Amazon. Released in December 2015, Uncharted Amazon has already been snapped up by public television in France and Germany and a global distribution deal has just been signed. The guys are now thinking filming in cloud forests…

This year we are helping The Forest Fund get off the ground. It is a ground-breaking crowdfunded conservation pilot, launching on Earth Day 22nd April 2016.  The Forest Fund is protecting virgin Amazon rainforest in Brazil which can be LEGALLY deforested.

Fund more on-the-ground rainforest conservation Our book royalties already support the World Land Trust, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and Isle of Wight Zoo. 2016  is Olympic year in Brazil.  This crowdfunder will therefore also raise money for  the World Land Trust’s  OLYMPIC FOREST RESERVE APPEAL with local partners in Brazil REGUA. All good guys – we know them!

OUR PLEDGE to our supporters is to back every £10 you put into our crowdfunder (up to the asking amount) with £3 of our own personal money and that we will continue to work for free, without claiming expenses.

OUR ASK is that you help MAKE JABUJICABA – THE MOVIE

VOTE for us here in #VOOM2016 (you just have to verify you are legitimate with your e-mail address)

SUPPORT our crowdfunder with a donation and spread the word about our work

WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL YOUR VOTE MAKE?

We will have a real chance of winning this competition to help make our movie happen.

WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL YOUR FUNDING MAKE?

You will accelerate our film development so we can launch our  equity-based crowdfunder for film production this SUMMER 2016, piggy-backing off the interest in Brazil raised by the Olympics.

HOW WILL WE SPEND YOUR (#VOOM2016’s) MONEY?

£60,000 on film development – polishing the SCRIPT, shooting the promo TRAILER on location with Yrsa Daley-Ward (in lead role as Carmen), preparing LINE BUDGETS, negotiating with co-producers, supporters, raising production money through an equity crowd funder. We will make Jabujicaba Ltd come alive.

£30,000 to build a network of school champions for the Jabuji debates over the next two years. We will build resources and train teacher/pupil champions. We will also regionally replicate our forum theatre The Amazon Auction.  Our final performance takes place in the University of Oxford Botanic Gardens with Wheatley Park School. Our dress rehearsal will be part of Voices for Nature’s Amazon Rainforest Day at the Oxford Festival of the Arts. Both events are in June 2016.

£10,000 on direct conservation in Brazil, divided between the Forest Fund and Olympic Reserve Appeal (also matched by our money).

Anything (more or less) will be shared as above proportionately.

Our FOLLOWING is growing –  we have 1000 books in circulation, over 3000 followers on facebook (author Rosa da Silva) and nearly 390 likes on Jabujicaba  book FB pages, over 7000 followers on three linked twitter accounts, nearly 10,000 new users on websitewww.jabujicaba.net. We also have our own Wikipedia page with wide stakeholder support. Pra nossos amigos no Brasil, download gratuito em português.

WE HOPE YOU JOIN US AND MAKE JABUJICABA THE MOVIE! Vamo là, gente!

Thank you to everybody who has helped us so far but especially:

The team

Clelia Goodchild (Heart of the Mata); Verity White (Five Films); Ben Johnston (film); Bethan John (Wildlands Creative); Nicole Collet (translator, author);  Rob Flavin; Ellie Warnick (journalist); Henry Rivers (That Cover); Alissa Bray; Leah Bray (artist); Toby Jones; Alex Collins; Klara Hansen;  Gaby Docherty and last but not least Yrsa Daley-Ward (‘the face of Carmen’) and Ruby Crepin-Glyne (‘the face of Rosa da Silva’)

Our collaborators

First and foremost before all: Kerri Hicks, Head of Banks Society (and biology teacher), Eton College for having the idea of the Jabuji Debates and driving it forward together with Haroon Shirwani, Head of Debating Society, Eton College, David Anderson, Head of Geography Eton College,  Dr Bob Stephenson Lower Master (Deputy Head), Eton College, Gerard Evans, Director of Curriculum Eton College

Conservationists – Karl Hansen, Living Rainforest, Trust for Sustainable Living; Viv and John Burton, founders The World Land Trust; Christina Ballinger, Dan Bradbury also the World Land Trust;  Charlotte Corney,  owner, Isle of Wight Zoo;  Dr Lee Durrell, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust; Bruce Pearson (wildlife artist); Lee Dingham, Rachel Walls (REGUA reserve); (Lord) Peter Melchett, Director Soil Association, former Executive Director of Greenpeace; Dr Toby Gardener, The Stockholm Environment Institute

Oxford University anthropologists  – especially Dr Elizabeth Rahman; Professor Peter Rivière; Professor David Gellner

Oxford University modern & medieval linguists – Dr Claire Williams, Dr Claudia Pasos-Alonso

Oxford University Botanic Gardens – Sarah Lloyd

Our schools/educational outreach network, especially – Tom Banin (Burnham Grammar); Nick Hayes (Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar);  and Claudia Harrison and Jeni May, London Academy of Excellence; Gill Labrum and Aoife Doherty, Windsor Girls School; Ruth Landreth, Joanna Botha, Wheatley Park School; Anaiis Higgins, Anne Cotton, Magdalen College School Arts Festival (also known as Oxford Festival of the Arts); Emma Ford, Royal Anthropological Institute

Our sponsors  Euan Hirst, Blackwells of Oxford (academic bookstore)

Our film supporters and mentors

My friend Dr Dolores Martinez (SOAS); my neighbour Andrew Pulver (Guardian film critic); Orlando von Einsiedel (of Virunga, Oscar Nomination fame!); Fernando Meirelles (City of Gods and Constant Gardener, Director); Simon Egan (Producer, The Kings Speech, Bedlam Productions); Leo Barros (Producer, Partner, Conspiracao); Sir David Attenborough; David Ondaatje (producer, screenwriter – my first screenwriting coach); Michael Palin (actor); Stephen Moss (producer, writer); Keith Haviland (Haviland Digital,  film producer, Last Man on the Moon); James Cameron (Chairman ODI, barrister, environmentalist, climate change leader who will be the Chairman of Jabujicaba Ltd)

My friends from/in Brazil

Alberto Pereira (nick-named Mar by his wife and my ‘bio-pirate’ inspiration!);  Eduardo Trani (another name in Jabujicaba), Jorio Dauster; Eliana Zugaib; Gaio H. (who likes to keep a low profile but has opened all my film doors in Brazil)

QUIZ: WHO ARE OUR FRIENDS? Quem somos? Answers to our supporters on first update ?

 Who is O Bio-pirata?

 Rare little fella – what animal? (filmed by Uncharted Amazon)

Verity in red with Sir David whom?!

 Winners Jabuji Debates 2016 are?

Hair of what dog? (#ecohound, over 5000 twitter followers)

Is  ‘Jabujicaba’ the dawn of new era?

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