David Crochet

David Crochet directs Chercheurs d'Autres, an association founded in 2008 and active in French Guiana and Occitanie. Based between Toulouse and Maripasoula, on the Upper Maroni, he runs a Youth Information Point and a cultural space. He produces documentary films linked to cultural rights, made alongside Indigenous and Maroon communities of the Upper Maroni, including Anuktatop and Kaawaï Na Ana, screened at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival in Belém during COP30. Maroons, descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped to the forest, are not Indigenous peoples, but they are close to them in their use of the forest, in their ties to the living world and in their representation of the world. He holds a master's degree in sociology and teaches cultural mediation at the Université de Guyane.