As coisas da terra: documentário audiovisual sobre a comunidade quilombola Tabacaria, em Palmeira dos Índios-AL

Abstract

The documentary “The Things of the Earth” presented here as the final paper for the Journalism course at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), deals with the reality of the quilombola community called Tabacaria, located in the Rural Zone of the municipality of Palmeira dos Índios, second largest city in the countryside of Alagoas. The paper aims to present the history, culture, and way in which the inhabitants of that territory live, the first to be recognized as a quilombola area in Alagoas. Through reports from two matriarchs from Tabacaria, Alaíde Bezerra dos Santos and Dominícia Maria dos Santos (in memoriam), we understand the process of resident’s struggle for recognition of the area as being of cultural interest, their achievements which, through public policies, improved the quality of life in the community, in addition to understanding the work of these women to preserve and transmit some of their customs, which are passed down from generation to generation in the quilombo.