This dissertation investigates the democratization of audiovisual media in the Amazon region
of Pará, focusing on the Telas em Rede project in Santarém/PA, which uses audiovisual media
as a tool for popular communication to amplify the voices of peripheral communities and
strengthen their struggles for recognition and rights. The study discusses dissident practices of
audiovisual production as a form of countercolonial resistance, exploring the intertwining of
art and politics. Anchored in Jacques Rancière's aesthetic theory, the research analyzes how
audiovisual media can reconfigure perceptions, sensibilities, and ways of acting, both at the
individual and collective levels, proposing new forms of political subjectivation and social
transformation. The main objective is to examine the relevance of audiovisual media as a tool
for struggle in contexts of popular organization and defense of territories, in addition to
discussing the multiple meanings attributed to audiovisual media in the peripheries of the
Amazon. The methodology used includes a multi-sited ethnography that combined participant
observation, open and semi-structured interviews with members of Telas em Rede, and
analysis of the audiovisual productions carried out in the project. The fieldwork was carried
out in Santarém and was expanded with analyses of activity reports and digital materials
related to the project. The research highlights the importance of democratizing audiovisual
production technologies as a way of reconfiguring the sensitive, allowing historically
marginalized groups to create their own narratives and question dominant colonial
representations, articulating new political and social horizons. In this way, Telas em Rede
seeks to reconfigure the perception of the Amazon space, not only as an area of exploration,
but as a territory of resistance, creation and collective transformation, where audiovisual
becomes a means of amplifying the demands and voices of invisible populations.
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