Lights, camera, co-creation: documentary cinema as an inspiration to decolonize knowledge production

ABSTRACT The article discusses the role of documentary cinema as inspiration for development sensitive collaborative methodologies in interdisciplinary fields, such collective health, involving approximation between scientists, filmmakers, and social movements around health environmental problems. is anchored on notion making common used by Paulo Freire work Boaventura de Sousa Santos, called Epistemologies South, his proposal to decolonize knowledge, which includes realization ecology knowledges. From references, reflected beyond an artistic authorial based science, but emergence new epistemes knowledge connected struggles emancipatory processes that can inspire theoreticalmethodological renewal production In article, we selected two documentaries address against capitalist agriculture effects intensive use pesticides, well promotion agroecology agrarian reform alternatives fairer, healthier, more sustainable societies. As a result, analysis those demonstrates potential bringing together politics, art, ethics intercultural practices co-labor-action, co-production, co-creation.