Mission Zero · Documission Presentation V1

Documission · Sacred Forest · Mission Europe August 2026

Mission Zero
WE ARE LOST.

In brief

Mission Zero is an educational documission of 5 to 6 days bringing together two Westerners and two Indigenous people to test, before the Amazon, a new way to collaborate between Sacred Forests, the guardian peoples of the forest and Western allies. The project produces a short film, a field notebook and an initial one-year co-development roadmap. Its red thread: WE ARE LOST. We are lost in our world of money, tools and control. They are lost facing the brutal arrival of this world into theirs. The mission turns this loss of bearings into an honest starting point to create a just alliance, a space for biomimetic innovation.

0. Vision

What if the first step to protect the Amazon were not to go to the Amazon, but to learn to meet correctly before going there?

Sacred Forests carries a rare ambition: mobilise money, technology, narrative and partners to support the guardian peoples of the forest.

This ambition is necessary.

It is also delicate.

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

Mission Zero proposes something simple and demanding: slow down before the Amazon, open a space of co-reflection, and explore the relationship before turning it into a contractual programme.

1. The Proposal

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

Mission Zero brings together:

Maah (Enahoé and Naoh) — intercultural mediator, embodies the living bridge between Amazon and Europe
Mik (Leiko) — creator, entrepreneur, carrier of modern transmission tools — Tech / AI
Xinu Yawanawa — Yawanawa cacique, orator and strategic voice for the Acre territory
Yaka (Xinu's niece) — feminine and generational voice of the tour

For a few days, this group crosses a preserved natural area of France to open a space of dialogue around a simple and immense question:

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

2. Presentation

A prototype mission designed to produce useful material before September.

It serves to:

· strengthen and ground the relationship with Xinu and Yaka, Yawanawa representatives
· clarify ethical questions before the Acre field
· produce a short film and teaser usable with funders and partners
· create a strategic notebook of tensions, learnings and decisions to carry into the Amazon
· lay down a first V1 roadmap for the Acre programme

The point: fund a proof of method. Show how Sacred Forests wants to embody innovation before asking others to believe in it.

3. Why Now

A rare window between the European tour and the September funders deadline.

Xinu and Yaka are already in Europe with the TEKOA IRUA tour.

September is a strategic deadline for Sacred Forests: funders, narrative, confirmation of the next phase of the Acre programme.

The window is rare: before the Amazon, before the contracts, before the partnerships, before the heavy constraints of the field, it is still possible to create a free, sensitive and strategic space to experiment with co-creation.

This window allows us to:

· create an embodied relationship with Xinu and Yaka
· test sensitive questions before the Amazon
· produce material of conviction more alive than a PDF dossier
· clarify the ethical posture of Sacred Forests
· let an initial operational roadmap emerge

The format is short. The stakes are deep.

4. Why Document?

Sacred Forests already has rushes. Mission Zero has another function.

Existing images often show

· the peoples
· the forest
· the projects
· the impact
· 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: make visible the way Sacred Forests wants to work.

What It Is Not — What It Is

Explicit framing, to defuse objections.

WE ARE LOST is not meant to be

✕ 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

4. The Red Thread

WE ARE LOST

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 brutal arrival of our world into theirs: money, contracts, image, social networks, climate, funders, storytelling, AI, drones, new expectations, new dependencies. Not to mention 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 orient ourselves without GPS, how to live in relationship with the living, how to help without taking power, nor how to protect without owning.

"How do we help without dispossessing?"

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

5. The Questions of the Documission

Eight questions the film keeps open

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 use AI, drones and storytelling as tools of sovereignty rather than capture?

Can we create an equitable alliance without subordination?

Can the Eagle and the Condor fly together without one dominating the other?

6. Deliverables

Five objects produced — material of conviction for September

Film / Documission

25 to 40 minutes

A raw, embodied, emotional and strategic film. Inspired by new creator documentary formats: personal narrative, strong identification, hero's journey, authentic storytelling, real conversations, natural beauty, living rhythm, moral tension, inner journey and pedagogical clarity.

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

Field Notebook

Field document

A field notebook compiling reflections, tensions, ethical questions, hypotheses, learnings, anecdotes, questions to carry into the Amazon and provisional conclusions.

Function: Turn the mission into an educational and strategic tool, not just video content.

Funders Teaser

90 seconds to 3 minutes

A short, clear object to open a September presentation, set the tension and show that Sacred Forests is working on a new way to enter into alliance.

Function: Open the September funders pitch, set the tension from the first moment.

1-Year Roadmap — V1

Co-development

An initial co-development roadmap between Sacred Forests, Maah and the Indigenous representatives concerned. It is 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.

Function: 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.

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

7. Field Format

Light, agile, human

Field team

· Maah · Enahoé and Naoh, 2 children embodying the in-between of worlds
· Mik · Leiko, dog living in freedom
· Xinu · cacique, spiritual leader and orator
· Yaka · symbol of sacred feminine and new generation
· 1 director of photography / editor

Recommended duration: 5 to 6 days

Approach

· van life
· nature
· conversations
· walking
· river
· drone
· bivouac
· agile and human filming
· no heavy setup

Capture the truth of the process, without rigidifying the encounter or controlling each scene.

The 4 Characters

Four voices, two worlds

Xinu Yawanawa

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

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

Maah and her 2 Children

Maah is the relational bridge. She knows the codes, sensitivities and risks of misunderstanding between worlds. She ensures the encounter is held with rightness, beyond what synergy alone can create.

Mik and his Border Collie

Mik embodies the other shore: creator, entrepreneur, neuroatypical, carrier of modern narrative, AI and transmission tools. His role: bring his worldview into question through contact with the guardians of the earth, and explore how to genuinely serve the connection between worlds.

8. Proposed Narrative Journey

Five steps, one crossing

Step 1

Le Rêve de l'Aborigène

The Festival

We meet Xinu and Yaka in their current mission: chants, conferences, workshops, transmission, craftsmanship. This first step shows that the movement is already underway. Bridges between cultures already exist. But they remain insufficient against the scale of the challenge.

Step 2

Road to Aveyron / Gorges du Tarn

The Intimate Encounter

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

Step 3

Gorges du Tarn

The Flow of the Living

River, kayak, bivouac, fire, walks, natural landscapes. The living becomes the frame of reflection: how to create an alliance that resembles an ecosystem more than a vertical project? Topics: inter-tribal learning platform, AI, drone, aldeic organisation, transmission, mutual aid, sovereignty.

Step 4

Point Sublime

Perspective

Take the height. Observe the vultures and local biodiversity, the complementary roles within an ecosystem. Understand that a healthy ecosystem rests on different, complementary, non-hierarchical roles. Mirror question: what is our rightful place in this alliance?

Step 5

Viaduc de Millau

The Bridge

The viaduct becomes the final symbol: two worlds that seemed impossible to connect can still hold together, provided the structure respects both shores. Possible moment: offer Xinu / Yaka a translation tool as a concrete symbol of technology placed at the service of relationship.

9. The Educational Dimension

An educational project with a double destination

For the funders

Mission Zero makes tangible what a PowerPoint cannot convey:

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

For the tribes

Mission Zero can open concrete questions:

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

10. Value for Sacred Forests

Mission Zero addresses several current needs

· create strong material for September

· step out of the PDF / classic pitch format

· propose a more human and more differentiating narration

· clarify its ethical posture before the Amazon

· prepare the relational ground with Xinu / Yaka

· show funders that Sacred Forests works complexity, not only impact

· give a first concrete shape to Rewild Minds

· identify the tensions around image, money, tools and sovereignty before being in the field

The expected result goes beyond the film. It is proof that Sacred Forests wants to innovate, a new way of doing conservation: more relational, more conscious, more co-created.

11. Budget and Decision Requested

Validate an envelope of principle of €10,000 excluding logistics

to launch Mission Zero in agile format.

Creator-format Documission

5 to 6 days, light team, several locations, director of photography / editor, short film, strategic field notebook, roadmap material

€10,000

This envelope covers:

· narrative preparation and editorial framing
· field presence over 5 to 6 days
· image / sound capture with light setup
· editing of a short film in creator format
· structuring of the strategic field notebook
· extraction of material useful for the ACRE roadmap
· organisation of qualified rushes for future uses

Logistics remain to be framed separately: transport, accommodation, meals, possible costs related to availabilities and locations.

12. Rewild Mind · Signature

So yes, maybe we are lost.

Lost as we are 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 reproducing the same past mistakes.

But this is perhaps precisely where a true alliance begins.

Mission Zero proposes to stay at this point 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, move forward. Move with more care. Move with more listening. In the encounter. In the dialogue. In the experimentation. In the courage of not knowing yet.

To connect two ways of perceiving. Two intelligences of the world.

And perhaps, in this place, the Eagle and the Condor can begin to fly side by side again.

In summary

What this mission produces. What we ask.

This mission serves to produce

· emotional material for the funders
· a pedagogical base for the tribes
· a clarification of tensions before the Amazon
· a more credible one-year roadmap
· a first concrete embodiment of Rewild Minds

What we ask

· validate the principle
· secure a budget envelope of €10,000 excluding logistics
· allow a reduced team
· keep the mission free, agile, alive
· do not turn it into an institutional shoot

Mission Zero WE ARE LOST.