“Cantos e saberes”: process of building a documentary about medicinal plants

Abstract

Integrative and complementary practices looks for space in a context lined up with the biologicist view of health. Besides, the traditional and popular knowledge has been silenced, being its potential health promoter reduced to individual practices, repressed by the system which provides health care. This article aims to describe the process of construction of a documentary under the title Cantos e Saberes, with women, about learning and practices of the medicinal plants use. The documentary genre promotes intercultural communication capable of bringing information loaded with subjectivities and impressions. The documentary editing is based on the discourse analysis of the characters, improving the understanding of the problem regarding the silence in health care about their medicinal plants knowledge. The work product also serves as diffser for the knowledge gathered by means of the interviews, multiplying the information to diffrent spheres, including researchers, professionals and communities, providing the dialogue between diffrent forms of knowledge.