Documission · 8-day dual-location · Summer 2026
Mission Zero
WE ARE LOST.
What if the first step to protect the Amazon was not to go to the Amazon — but to learn how to meet properly before going there?
8 d
Mission Zero
France Tarn 5d + Switzerland 3d
4
Characters
Xinu · Yaka · Maah · Mik
2
Institutional anchors
UNESCO + IUCN
2-3 min
Netflix teaser
Delivered September 2026 · 1st of 4 capsules
The essentials in 90 seconds
Mission Zero is an 8-day dual-location documission (France Tarn 5d + Switzerland 3d) bringing together two Yawanawa — Cacique Xinu and his niece Yaka — with Maah and Mik, to test before going to the Amazon a new way of collaborating between Sacred Forest, the peoples who guard the forest and Western allies. The project delivers a 2-3 min teaser for Netflix (the first of the 4 capsules requested), a strategic logbook, a V1 roadmap of the Acre programme — and acquires in Switzerland two international institutional anchors (FIFO Martigny under UNESCO auspices + IUCN meeting in Gland). The through-line: WE ARE LOST. We are lost in our world of money, tools and control. They are lost facing the sudden arrival of this world into theirs. The mission transforms this loss of bearings into an honest starting point to build a fair alliance.
The through-line
WE ARE LOST is not an admission of failure. It is the honest starting point of a shared quest.
Indigenous peoples are lost facing the sudden arrival of our world into theirs: money, contracts, image, social networks, climate, funders, storytelling, AI, drones, new dependencies — without forgetting destruction, appropriation, corruption. Their crucial question: how do we adapt without betraying ourselves?
We, Westerners, are also lost. We have built a world of powerful tools, but we no longer know where our food comes from, how to live in relation with the living, how to help without taking power, or how to protect without owning. Our question: how do we help without dispossessing?
Mission Zero begins in this lucidity — in the courage that no one holds the answer alone.
The differentiating narrative object
Xana — the bird passer of culture
The « WE ARE LOST » through-line only works if the encounter between the two worlds can actually happen. Yet in most cases, it cannot — many Indigenous nations have closed the door to Western contact, by memory of past destructions.
Xana changes the equation. Xana is the claimed identity of the Acre peoples — the bird passer of culture, a pride of communicators between worlds. At birth, these peoples all consider themselves Xana. This cultural singularity is what makes the alliance possible — and what justifies why Sacred Forest chooses these peoples precisely, at this moment.
On the ground, Xana is embodied through a meeting with a local ornithologist in the Tarn (vultures' house), in a cross-learning where the 4 species of Tarn vultures mirror the Amazonian bird-passers. The prophecy of the Eagle & Condor is told by Xinu, lived by all, without decorative mysticism.
Why now
A rare window between the TEKOA IRUA tour and the autumn deadlines.
Xinu and Yaka are already in Europe with the TEKOA IRUA tour until 10 September. The window is rare: before the Amazon, before the contracts, before the heavy field constraints, it is still possible to create a free, sensitive and strategic space to experiment with co-creation.
September is a major deadline: Sacred Forest funders pitch + delivery of the 1st Netflix capsule (out of 4 requested) + confirmation of the Acre programme to follow.
November is the second deadline: COP31 Antalya (9-20 Nov), where Maah leads the Sacred Forest delegation with the teaser and derived capsules as networking supports.
The 4 characters
Four complementary voices, one single quest.
The format brings together two Westerners and two Yawanawa, around a simple, transverse and radical question: how do we adapt without betraying ourselves?
Xinu Yawanawa
Cacique · orator · spiritual leader
Carries a spiritual, community-based and strategic voice tied to the Acre territory and the Aldeia Sete Estrelas. His presence allows the hard questions to be faced with someone who knows the real weight of transmission, cultural sovereignty, forest medicines and community responsibility.
Yaka
Xinu's niece · feminine and generational voice
Prevents the story from resting only on the figure of a chief. Opens a more intimate reading: heritage, youth, transmission, adaptation, sacred feminine, a young eye on Europe.
Maah
Intercultural mediator · in charge of the COP mission
The relational bridge. Knows the codes, sensitivities and risks of misunderstanding between worlds. Backbone of the Phase 2 institutional opening: her direct contacts at the IUCN leadership and at FIFO Martigny make the two international anchors possible.
Mik (Leiko)
Creator · direction · drone · AI
Embodies the other side. Puts his view of the world into question through contact with the guardians of the land. Carries the modern tools of narration, drone and AI to explore how to genuinely serve the connection between worlds.
The journey · 8-day dual-location
Tarn and Lozère — Rewilding Minds.
Martigny and Gland — international stage.
Phase 1 · France · 5 days
The Festival
Le Rêve de l'Aborigène · Airvault · 24-26 July
We meet Xinu and Yaka in their current mission: songs, conferences, workshops, transmission. The movement is already underway, bridges exist, but they remain insufficient given the scale of the challenge.
The Intimate Encounter
Transit to Lozère · Camping Nature et Rivière
The group slows down. Rest, respect, first intimate conversation. We bring out the real tensions: money, image, technology, autonomy, contracts, trust, risk of involuntary corruption.
The Flow of the Living
Tarn Gorges · kayak from La Malène · wild bivouac
River, kayak, bivouac, fire, walking. The living becomes the frame of reflection. Topics: inter-tribal learning platform, AI, drone, aldeic organisation, sovereignty.
Xana, the narrative heart
Cubières · Grégory Chamming's, En Quête du Vivant
Emotional and strategic pivot. Xinu tells Xana, the bird passer of culture, and the prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor — in the presence of the raptors and vultures of Lozère. Probably the most signature image of the entire project.
Perspective
Point Sublime · 4-generation family restaurant
Taking height. Observing vultures and local biodiversity. A healthy ecosystem rests on roles that are different, complementary, non-hierarchical. Mirror question: what is our rightful place in this alliance?
Symbolic passage
Millau Viaduct · France → Switzerland route
The viaduct becomes a filmed metaphor: two worlds that seemed impossible to connect can hold together — provided that the structure respects both banks.
Phase 2 · Switzerland · 3 days
FIFO Martigny
International Folk Festival of Octodure · under UNESCO auspices
Phase 2 opens with mingling. Xinu and Yaka meet other Indigenous delegations from the world — Andes, Africa, Asia. The Xana movement they embody takes its place in a visible global brotherhood.
IUCN Gland — closing
IUCN world headquarters · Vaud
Sacred Forest recognised as a legitimate international actor. Discussion: the role of Indigenous peoples as conservation leaders, synergies between ancestral knowledge and new technologies, data sovereignty. Closing moment: Mik offers Xinu and Yaka the Timekettle + AirPods Pro 3 headphones, a concrete symbol of technology serving relationship.
The deliverables
One mission. Seven deliverables. Two distinct envelopes.
Phase 1 (mission + September teaser) is the object of the decision expected from Sacred Forest before 4 July. Phase 2 (long film post-production, end 2026) will be decided after the mission returns, based on the teaser result.
September 2026
Phase 12-3 min main teaser
1st of the 4 capsules requested by Netflix. Doubles as the funders pitch and as cornerstone of the future long film.
Post-mission
Phase 1Strategic logbook
Reflections, tensions, ethical questions, hypotheses, learnings, questions to bring back to the Amazon, a dedicated « Sacred Forest seen from the IUCN » note.
September 2026
Phase 1V1 roadmap — Acre programme
First co-development roadmap between Sacred Forest, Maah and the Indigenous representatives involved. A credible work map for the rest of the programme.
Post-mission
Phase 1Qualified rushes archive
Organised selection of images, sounds, excerpts, moments of speech. Feeds website, pitch, mini-series, networks and future presentations.
November 2026
Phase 1COP31 Antalya capsules
Short capsules derived from the teaser, supports for discussions and networking for the Sacred Forest delegation. Maah leads the COP mission.
Q4 2026
Phase 2Long film — Documission
25 to 60 min. Embodied narrative, hero's journey, authentic storytelling. Strong material to explain the method and convince funders. Separate envelope.
2026-2027
Phase 23 additional Netflix capsules
On themes co-defined with Sacred Forest based on the Mission Zero learnings. To continue the Netflix conversation over time.
Background questions
Seven questions that run through the film in the background.
They do not open the film. They run through it across each conversation, each silence, each image — and structure the captured material to feed the strategic logbook and the Acre roadmap.
- · Can we support the forest without owning it?
- · Can we protect the living without corrupting it?
- · Can we fund guardians without buying their freedom?
- · Can we document without extracting?
- · Can we transmit modern tools without importing our dependencies?
- · Can we create an equitable alliance without subordination?
- · Can we fly the Eagle and the Condor together without one dominating the other?
Decisive argument · Institutional credit
In 8 days, Sacred Forest acquires two institutional anchors difficult to obtain otherwise.
A passage through FIFO Martigny (festival under UNESCO auspices, mingling with the Indigenous peoples of the world) and a meeting at the IUCN in Gland (UN body for the conservation of nature). Two openings immediately capitalisable for the September funders pitch and the Sacred Forest delegation to COP31 Antalya in November.
Sacred Forest comes out of the mission positioned no longer as a young social enterprise, but as an internationally recognised actor.
Decision expected
Validate the principle of Mission Zero and the Phase 1 envelope.
8-day field mission and editing of the 2-3 min teaser (1st Netflix capsule), to deliver in September, ahead of the funders pitch and COP31 Antalya.
The budget framework is currently being refined with Maah, split into two distinct envelopes: Phase 1 (mission + teaser, to validate now) and Phase 2 (long film post-production end 2026, to decide after the mission returns based on the teaser result).
Deadline before vacation departure. The shooting window opens 19 days later — each day of delay erodes the field logistics preparation margin.
Going further
Four complementary reads depending on your angle
Presentation
Full Mission Zero
14 sections — vision, through-line, characters, journey, deliverables, audience mapping.
Vision
The future we are looking for
Why Sacred Forest. The forgotten innovation. 5 principles. Why Acre.
Framework
From vision to action
5 phases · Connect → Discover → Incubate → COP31 → Lead. 6 innovation axes.
Logbook
8 days, step by step
Detailed itinerary from D0 Airvault festival to D8 IUCN Gland. 1,350 km.