Mission Zero · Presentation —

Documission · Sacred Forest · Europe mission — late July → early August 2026

Mission Zero
WE ARE LOST.

WE ARE LOST. An 8-day dual-location documission — France Tarn 5 days + Switzerland 3 days — to take the time before the Amazon to experiment with new ways of bringing into dialogue the knowledge of the peoples who guard the forest and the tools, stakes and field of possibilities of the Western world.

Vision· Proposal· Why now· Through-line· Characters· Journey· Deliverables· Value

In brief

Mission Zero is an 8-day dual-location documission that brings together two Westerners and two Yawanawa — Xinu and Yaka — to experiment, before the Amazon, with a new way of collaborating.

It produces a 2-3 min teaser for Netflix and lays the raw material for a feature-length film to come.

Its red thread: WE ARE LOST. We ; lost in our world of money, tools and control. They ; lost facing the brutal arrival of this world into theirs.

The mission transforms this shared loss of bearings into an honest starting point to build a fair alliance. It anchors in two international reference bodies: UNESCO (FIFO Martigny) and IUCN (Gland).

0. Vision

What if the first step to protecting the Amazon was not to go to the Amazon, but to learn how to meet correctly before getting there?

The project carries a rare ambition: to mobilise means, technology, story and partners in service of the peoples who guard the forest.

This ambition is necessary. It is also delicate.

Because Western tools have a double nature. They can protect, connect, amplify, transmit. They can also create dependency, extraction, misunderstanding, distortion or invisible appropriation.

Mission Zero offers something simple and demanding: open a space for joint reflection, and explore the relationship before turning it into field projects.

An assumed geopolitical and international dimension

The mission is rooted in the millennia-old prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor — the meeting of Northern and Southern intelligences.

At a time when humanity is searching for a new direction, an ancient prophecy resonates across the Americas: one day, the Eagle and the Condor will fly again side by side, reuniting the head and the heart, technology and ancestral wisdom, the masculine and the feminine, the North and the South.

As the world calls for systemic change, could this be the moment to embody this vision and begin, together, to build our Ancestral Future?

The representatives of the Acre peoples with whom the mission wishes to open collaboration are Txanas: in the Yawanawa tradition, "birds who carry culture across worlds", invested with the responsibility of creating bridges, opening dialogue and letting knowledge circulate between worlds.

This vocation constitutes a major geopolitical differentiator. Where many other Indigenous nations choose, often rightly, to limit certain forms of openness, sharing or collaboration with the outside world — because of historical violence, dispossession, exploitation of their knowledge, still-present systemic racism and, sometimes, well-founded fears of emerging new forms of digital neocolonialism — the Txanas carry a complementary and singular mission for our own: to create the conditions for an encounter grounded in reciprocity, exchange and co-creation, in which ancestral knowledge and contemporary innovation capacities can dialogue as equals in service of the great challenges of our time.

This is also what justifies that, by the end of August 2026, the mission closes on the Swiss side with two international institutional anchorings: the International Folkloric Festival of Octodure FIFO, held under UNESCO patronage and dedicated to the encounter of the peoples and cultures of the world, then a working meeting at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), world reference for biodiversity governance and historical partner of the United Nations system on conservation issues.

In this way, from immersion in nature to international spaces of dialogue and decision, between Europe and the heart of the Amazon, the mission creates the space and time needed to navigate between different worlds, to bring the vision of Indigenous peoples into dialogue with our contemporary stakes, and to connect the different scales of action, from the micro to the macro.

1. The Proposal

A short, raw, embodied adventure to ask the right questions before the Amazon.

Mission Zero brings together:

Maah (+ Nooah and Enawê) — intercultural mediator, embodying the living bridge between the Amazon and Europe. Her children, born of these two worlds, carry the spontaneous, unfiltered gaze of the new hybrid generations, naturally able to weave links between cultures
Mik (Leiko) — creator, entrepreneur, carrier of modern transmission tools — Tech / AI
Xinu Yawanawa — Yawanawa chief / cacique, orator and strategic voice for the Acre territory
Yaka (Xinu's niece) — feminine and generational voice of the tour

For 8 days, this group crosses a preserved natural area in France then moves into Switzerland to open a space of dialogue around a simple, transversal and radical question:

How can we unify our ancestral roots and our technological present to create together a new way of being human?

This question is transversal. It speaks to the Acre peoples facing the brutal arrival of our world — image, technology, money and partnerships. It also speaks to the Western team facing a system that funds, monitors and formats. It is inside this shared tension that the mission searches for its answer:

Can we use money, technology and Western communication to protect the forest without buying, extracting or corrupting what is sacred in it?

2. Presentation

A prototype mission designed to produce useful material before further field missions and projects in the Amazon.

It serves to:

·strengthen and anchor the relationship with Xinu and Yaka and, through this path of trust, with the Yawanawa people
·clarify the ethical questions before the Acre field
·produce a 2-3 min teaser (Netflix capsules) + raw material for a possible long-form film + assets usable in presentations to potential partners or international events
·create a strategic logbook of stakes, key learnings and emerging modes of cooperation, meant to accompany the roll-out of future missions and field programmes in the Amazon
·lay down a first V1 roadmap of the incubation programme to co-build with the communities in Acre
·develop international institutional and relational credit via FIFO + IUCN

The subject: supporting and developing a new methodology of relationship between peoples. Embodying innovation before asking others to believe in it.

Rewilding Minds in action.

3. Why now?

A rare window between their European tour and the deadlines ahead.

Xinu and Yaka are already in Europe with their European tour until 10 September.

September is a major strategic deadline for reopening discussions with potential partnerships and international events (Climate Week NY, COP31 among others) as well as the co-construction of the incubation programme in Acre.

The window is rare: before the incubation missions in the Amazon, before the partnerships, before the contracts and any constraints from the field and long-term partnership building, it is still possible to create a free, sensitive and strategic space to experiment with co-creation.

This window makes it possible to:

·create an embodied relationship with Xinu and Yaka
·dialogue openly at the heart of sensitive questions before going further into concrete partnerships
·produce a teaser capsule for Netflix as well as conversation and networking materials for international dialogues and events
·produce material more alive and convincing than a PDF deck for potential partners
·clarify the ethical posture around the relationship to Indigenous image, technology and the Rewilding Minds mission
·let a first operational roadmap emerge for the incubation programme in Acre
·develop two institutional anchorings (UNESCO + IUCN) within a single time window

The format is short. The stakes and the possibilities run deep.

4. Why Document?

Field rushes already exist with many Indigenous peoples, including the Yawanawa. Mission Zero has a different function.

Existing images usually show

·the peoples
·the forest
·the traditions
·the projects
·the field

Mission Zero explores

·the encounter before the agreement
·the questions before the answers
·the guardrails before the technology
·trust before money
·co-creation before deployment
·complexity before promise

The value of the film is strategic: making visible a new way of working with the peoples who guard the forests.

Legal and strategic point of attention

Xinu and Yaka are in Europe outside their tribal structure and outside the framework of an institutional tour. The contents, exchanges and materials produced within Mission Zero therefore belong to an autonomous scheme and set of initiatives, defined by agreements specific to the mission and by a direct relationship of trust with the persons involved. This independence guarantees their usability, even if future agreements with the peoples were to evolve or be redefined, in particular on contractual questions linked to the development of the projects over the coming months. This scheme directly addresses a risk already encountered on previous expeditions, where footage became unusable for lack of an autonomous contractual framework such as the one made possible here.

5. What It Isn't — What It Is

Explicit framing, to defuse objections.

WE ARE LOST is not

×yet another institutional documentary
×a folkloric capture
×a marketing campaign
×a heavy shoot
×a pre-packaged Netflix series
×a fixed solution
×a mission where Westerners come to train Indigenous people

WE ARE LOST is

●a relational prototype
●a proof of method
●emotional material for September
●a notebook of questions before the Amazon
●a concrete embodiment of Rewild Minds

6. The Through-Line — ON EST PERDU / WE ARE LOST

WE ARE LOST

ON EST PERDU / WE ARE LOST is not an admission of failure.

It is the honest starting point of a shared quest.

The prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor — two peoples, two paths, one shared sky. Cycle of Pachakuti, 500 years of transformation.

Indigenous peoples

Are lost faced with the brutal arrival of our world inside theirs: money, contracts, image, social networks, climate, funders, storytelling, AI, drones, new expectations, new dependencies, and on top of that destruction, appropriation, corruption.

They must answer a crucial question:

"How do we adapt without betraying ourselves?"

We, Westerners

Are also lost. We have built a world of powerful tools, money, technologies, narratives, networks, comfort and control.

But we no longer know where our food comes from, how to find our way without GPS, how to live in relation with the living, how to help without taking power, or how to protect without owning.

"How do we help without dispossessing?"

This Mission Zero begins inside that lucidity: in the courage that no one alone holds the answer.

Txana — the distinctive narrative object

The "we are lost" through-line only works if the encounter between the two worlds can actually take place.

In most cases, however, it cannot — many Indigenous nations have closed the door to Western contact, out of memory of past destruction.

Txana changes the game.

Txana is the claimed identity of the Acre peoples — the bird who carries culture between worlds, the pride of communicators between realms. At birth, these peoples all consider themselves Txana. It is this cultural singularity that makes the alliance possible — and that justifies why Sacred Forests chooses these peoples precisely, at this precise moment.

On the ground, Txana will be embodied concretely by an encounter with a local ornithologist in the Tarn (the vultures' home), in a cross-learning where the 4 vulture species of the Tarn mirror the Amazonian carrier birds (Shennawa = blue bird). This staging anchors the Eagle & Condor prophecy without decorative mysticism — told by Xinu, lived by all.

7. The Underlying Questions

These questions do not open the film. They run through it in the background, across every conversation, every silence, every image.

01
Can we support the forest without owning it?
02
Can we protect the living without corrupting it?
03
Can we fund guardians without buying their freedom?
04
Can we document without extracting?
05
Can we transmit modern tools without importing our dependencies?
06
Can we use AI, drones and storytelling as tools of sovereignty rather than capture?
07
Can we create an equitable alliance without subordination?
08
Can the Eagle and the Condor fly together without one dominating the other?

8. The Deliverables

Material that unfolds from September 2026 to late 2027.

Main teaser

2 to 3 minutes · Delivered September 2026

First of the 4 capsules requested by Netflix to grasp the depth of the potential subjects. Serves at the same time as the funders pitch for the September session and as the cornerstone of the future long-form film. A short, clear object to open a presentation, set the tension and show that Sacred Forests is working on a new way to enter into alliance.

Open the funders pitch and the Netflix conversation.

Strategic Logbook

Field document

Compiles reflections, tensions, ethical questions, hypotheses, learnings, anecdotes, questions to carry into the Amazon, provisional conclusions, and a dedicated note on "Sacred Forests seen from IUCN" drawn from the Gland meeting.

Turn the mission into a pedagogical and strategic tool, not just into video content.

1-Year Roadmap — V1

Co-development

A first co-development roadmap between Sacred Forests, Maah and the Indigenous representatives concerned. Not fixed. It allows us to leave the mission with a better understanding of what can be tested in the Acre programme: audiovisual transmission, drone, AI, inter-ethnic journal, pedagogy, data sovereignty, ethical framework.

Leave Mission Zero with a credible working map for what comes next.

Qualified Rush Bank

Internal archive

An organised selection of images, sounds, extracts, moments of speech and natural sequences.

Feed the site, the pitch, a mini-series, social networks and future presentations.

International event capsules

Teaser · communication materials

One or several short capsules derived from the teaser, designed as conversation and networking material.

Support the project in its networking and conversations at international events.

Long-form Film — Documission

25 to 60 minutes · Q3 2026

A raw, embodied, emotional and strategic film. Inspired by the new creator documentary formats: personal narrative, strong identification, hero's journey, authentic storytelling, real conversations, natural beauty, living rhythm, moral tension, inner journey, pedagogical clarity. The post-production of this film is a separate step, to be confirmed after the mission depending on the outcome of the teaser.

Give Sacred Forests strong material to explain its method, convince funders and prepare future partnerships.

3 additional Netflix capsules

2026-2027

The next 3 capsules will be produced over the course of 2026-2027, on themes to be defined based on what we learn during Mission Zero.

Pro FPV drone pilot — self-funded by Mik — free agent, capture + vlog

Chamonix mountain guide — Phase 2 Switzerland

Approach: van life, nature, conversations, walking, river, drone, bivouac, agile and human shooting, no heavy production setup, integration of institutional moments (FIFO, IUCN) while staying light.

Production intent: capture the truth of the process, without rigidifying the encounter or controlling every scene.

See the detailed day-by-day route logbook

10. The 4 Characters

Four voices, four shores to connect.

Xinu Yawanawa

Cacique · orator

Xinu carries a spiritual, communal and strategic voice connected to the Acre territory and the Aldeia Sete Estrelas. His presence allows us to face the difficult questions with someone who knows the real weight of transmission, cultural sovereignty, forest medicines and communal responsibility.

Yaka, Xinu's niece

Feminine voice · new generation

Yaka brings a feminine, generational and sensitive voice. She prevents the narrative from resting solely on the figure of a chief or an orator. Her presence opens a more intimate reading: heritage, youth, transmission, adaptation, sacred feminine, a young gaze on Europe.

Maah and her 2 children

Bridge · mediator · Indigenous diplomacy

Maah is the relational bridge. She knows the codes, the sensitivities and the communication stakes between the two worlds. She guarantees the encounter is held with rightness and cultural sensitivity.

Mik and his Border Collie

Creator · transformed witness

Mik embodies the other shore: creator, entrepreneur, neurodivergent, carrier of modern storytelling, AI and transmission tools. His role: put his own view of the world into question through contact with the guardians of the land, and explore how to genuinely serve the connection between the two worlds.

11. Proposed Narrative Journey

From deep nature to the international stage.

Phase 1 France (stages 1-5) opens the intimate space and embodies the narrative and spiritual dimension. Phase 2 Switzerland (stages 6-8) inscribes the mission in the international institutional arena.

Phase 1 — France — Rewilding Minds (5 days)

The Festival

Le Rêve de l'Aborigène · Airvault (Deux-Sèvres) · 24-26 July 2026

We meet Xinu and Yaka inside their current mission: chants, talks, workshops, transmission, crafts. The movement is already in motion — bridges exist between the cultures, but remain insufficient given the scale of the challenge.

The Intimate Encounter

Transit to Lozère · Nature et Rivière Campsite (Trouillas)

After the festival, the group slows down. Rest, respect, first intimate conversation. We set down and explore the real tensions: money, image, technology, autonomy, contracts, trust, the risk of involuntary corruption.

The Flow of the Living

Tarn Gorges · kayak descent from La Malène · wild bivouac

River, kayak, bivouac, fire, walking, natural landscapes. The living becomes the frame for thought: how do we create an alliance that resembles an ecosystem rather than a vertical project? Topics: inter-tribal learning platform, AI, drone, aldeia-style organisation, transmission, mutual support, sovereignty.

Txana, the narrative heart Pivot

Cubières (Mont Lozère) · Grégory Chamming's — En Quête du Vivant

Emotional and strategic pivot of the film. Xinu tells the story of Txana, the bird who carries culture from one world to another, and also tells the prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor — in the presence of the raptors and vultures of the Lozère. The ornithologist learns as much from the Indigenous guests as they do from him. The 4 vulture species of the Tarn become a living mirror of the Amazonian carrier birds. This stage anchors concretely the geopolitical and spiritual dimension of the mission. It produces what is likely to become the signature image of the whole project.

Perspective

Point Sublime (Saint-Georges-de-Lévéjac) · 4-generation family restaurant

Stepping back. Observing the vultures and the local biodiversity. The complementary roles inside an ecosystem. Understanding that a healthy ecosystem rests on different, complementary, non-hierarchical roles. Mirror question: what is our right place in this alliance?

Passage · Viaduc de Millau

The viaduct becomes a metaphor filmed along the road: two worlds that seemed impossible to connect can hold together, provided the structure respects both shores. This is not the closing of the film — it is a symbolically charged passage between Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Phase 2 — Switzerland — International stage (3 days)

FIFO Martigny

International Folkloric Festival of Octodure · MartignyExpo · under UNESCO patronage

Phase 2 opens with the mingling. Xinu and Yaka meet other Indigenous delegations from around the world — Andes, Africa, Asia. The Txana movement they embody enters a visible global fraternity. The festival runs from 31 July to 8 August 2026, perfectly aligned with the mission window.

IUCN Gland

IUCN World Headquarters · Rue Mauverney 28, Gland (Vaud)

Discussion: the role of Indigenous peoples as conservation leaders, synergies between ancestral knowledge and new technologies (AI, environmental data, audiovisual), data sovereignty, new financing and governance models. Mik offers Xinu and Yaka the instant-translation headphones — a technological translation tool, a concrete symbol of technology in service of the relationship, so the link can be maintained beyond borders. This moment embodies the narrative: tech is no longer a symbol of domination, it becomes a tool to better hear one another.

Musée Barbier-Mueller · Geneva Closing

Barbier-Mueller Cultural Foundation · Geneva

Meeting with the museum's leadership. A major international reference in indigenous collections, with over 50 years of engagement. The foundation is opening a program of events with indigenous communities and partners — a synchronicity with the mission. An invitation to deep reflection and exchange around the preservation of traditional cultures, in an approach grounded in respect, transmission and the autonomy of peoples — without appropriation, but valuing their capacity to define and carry their own future.

12. The Educational Dimension

Making sensible what a PowerPoint cannot transmit.

For funders

·the complexity of an intercultural alliance
·the legitimate fear of falling into a trap
·the risk of dependency
·the difference between funding an impact and entering into a relationship
·the necessity to co-create rather than deploy

For the tribes

·how to use modern tools without losing the soul of the ancestral
·how to understand money as the energy of a relationship rather than as survival logic
·how to turn technology into a tool of ethical and sovereign transmission
·how to create alliances without being absorbed

For partners, institutions and potential international events

Where most conservation projects arrive at COP with figures and promises, Sacred Forests arrives with embodied narrative material on what it means to "listen before acting", "fund without colonising", "preserve an ecosystem while respecting those who inhabit it".

The geopolitical dimension and trans-cultural openness of the Txana philosophy: we do not work with "Indigenous people in general" but with peoples fundamentally open to an equitable alliance and to a shared construction with the stakes and needs of the contemporary world.

13. Added value

Several strategic objectives served in a single mission.

create strong material for September (call-to-action teaser)

step out of the classic PDF / pitch format

offer a more human and more distinctive narrative

clarify the ethical posture before the next missions in the Amazon

prepare the relational ground with Xinu, Yaka and, by extension, the leaders of the Yawanawà people

show that the project seeks to work the depth of the interconnection relationship, not just impact

give a first concrete form to Rewilding Minds

identify the tensions around image, money, tools and sovereignty before being on the ground

Decisive argument — institutional credit

In 8 days, the team secures two international institutional anchorings that are hard to obtain otherwise: a passage through FIFO Martigny (under UNESCO patronage) and a meeting at IUCN (the UN body for nature conservation).

Both openings are immediately usable for the September funders pitch and for the COP31 presence in Antalya in November. The Maah × Mik alliance positions itself as a legitimate actor of connection both with Indigenous communities and at the international scale.

The expected outcome goes beyond the film. It is proof that a new way of doing conservation can be innovated: more deeply relational, profoundly conscious, intrinsically co-created.

14. Rewild Mind Signature

So yes, perhaps we are lost.

Lost the way one is at the beginning of a crossing, when the old world is no longer enough and the new one has no map yet.

Between two worlds.

Between what we have built and what we want to repair.

Between the urgency to protect and the risk of repeating the same mistakes of the past.

But perhaps it is precisely there that a true alliance begins.

Mission Zero proposes to stay at that place long enough not to lie to ourselves.

Not to pretend that money is neutral.

Not to pretend that technology is innocent.

Not to pretend that love of the forest is enough to avoid power relations.

And yet, to move forward.

Move forward with more care. Move forward with more listening.

In the encounter. In the dialogue. In the experimentation. In the courage of not yet knowing.

Connect two ways of perceiving. Two intelligences of the world.

And perhaps at this place, the Eagle and the Condor can begin once again to fly, naturally and with vision, side by side.

Yaka Yawanawa · along the water

Mission Zero WE ARE LOST.