Regenerate Manifesto
Regenerate is an audiovisual and interactive content platform, a global epicenter of discussions, actions and education focused on planetary regeneration and tackling the climate crisis.
The goal is to build a community committed to reimagining the relationship between humans and nature, offering an integrated experience that combines education, entertainment and social mobilization.
Regenerar
In a world affected by the climate crisis and the legacy of colonial modernity, Regenerate emerges as a profound cry, an invitation to radical reimagination.
It is not just a documentary, but a portal that invites us to reflect on the collapse of the old paradigm and the urgent need to rebuild our relationships with the Earth.
Through the symbolic lenses of Death, Dream and Life, Regenerate challenges us to face the failure of the logic that separated us from nature.
We live in a civilization that, by denying its interdependence with the natural world, has triggered a state of climate emergency. Out of chaos, different possibilities also arise. We can explore a fertile ground where other forms of life, culture and politics can germinate.
This project does not seek ready-made answers. On the contrary, it opens space for the unknown, for the voices that have been silenced for so long.
In in-depth conversations with thinkers such as Bayo Akomolafe, Sidarta Ribeiro, Tainá de Paula, and indigenous leaders such as Márcia Kambeba, Regenerar explores the scars of colonization and the possibilities for healing that emerge from encounters between ancestral and contemporary knowledge.
Thirty years after Eco-92, Regenerate reminds us that the ecological revolution is also a spiritual, cultural and political revolution. It is not just about preserving the environment, but about reconstituting our souls, fragmented by the logic of separation, and learning to live in community with all beings – human and non-human.
This manifesto is a call to action and also to dream. It is a reminder that in the midst of destruction, there is always the possibility of regeneration.
Regeneration is ultimately a celebration of life in its many forms, a dance between the end and the beginning, where each death makes way for a new blossoming.
Who We Are
The Regenerar project emerged from the meeting between director and screenwriter Maria Clara Parente and executive and creative producer Ana Clara Cenamo in 2019.
Ana Clara Cenamo is a psychologist with training in Lacanian psychoanalysis, a geographer, an executive producer, and since 2012, she has studied ancestral worldviews, from which she and her husband, Renato Dias, created the Duo Emanazul Music. In 2014, she founded Spanda Produtora, aiming to create a path for audiovisual projects with a positive impact.
Ana Clara Cenamo
Maria Clara Parente is an artist, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and holds a master's degree in literature from PUC-Rio. She studied communication for transition at Schumacher College and, since 2016, through audiovisual projects, she has researched radical imagination for other ways of inhabiting this planet toward regenerative futures. In 2023, she founded Simbiótica Filmes.
Maria Clara Parente
After Ana Clara and Maria Clara met during the filming and post-production of the documentary series What is Emerging? (2019), directed by Maria Clara Parente and Camila Cardoso, the desire to continue creating projects together emerged.
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In 2019, Ana Clara and Maria Clara decided to create the feature documentary Regenerar: Caminhos Possíveis em um Planeta Machucado (2022), which investigates, thirty years after Eco-92, other ways of dying, dreaming, and living outside the logics of the Anthropocene. The film premiered at the Rio Film Festival in 2022, won awards such as Best Documentary at OffCine Doc in Spain and Best Film by the Popular Jury at Alter Cine.
From the trajectory of the film, the Regenerar project was born — a platform for audiovisual content that intertwines regeneration, ancestry, and radical imagination from the Global South.
Regenerate: possible awakenings
In a moment of polycrisis, Regenerar is born, a platform with the mission to inspire, raise questions, and mobilize people towards more creative and generative ways of living. More than audiovisual content or meetings, Regenerar is an invitation to transformation, to rethink our relationships with the more-than-human world and ourselves.
The platform connects creators, activists, thinkers, artists, and community leaders in reflections that intertwine philosophy, psychology, climate emergency, ancestral healing, and decolonial issues.
Through documentaries, courses, interviews, and immersive experiences, Regenerar collectively explores how to create new sensitivities to deal with a world that is falling apart, while gaining strength to birth other worlds where equanimity, happiness, and freedom for all beings are possible.
