"Our project used video as a tool for enabling two Indigenous Mapuche communities in Chile, and particularly their youth, to approach and analyze local development issues and bring local perspectives to the forefront of debates on biocultural diversity conservation and equitable development. The project brought together Canadian and Mapuche research, cultural, and Indigenous organizations using an approach that breaks down disciplinary boundaries and the hierarchies that often separate Western science from Indigenous expertise, while emphasizing co-learning and the co-production and sharing of knowledge. The project had three major activity components: 1) The Mapuche School of Filmmaking and Communication offered intensive training in digital filmmaking to Mapuche youth. This training created a space for youth to explore and analyze the challenges faced by their communities, providing them the skills to represent these through short films that meet high technical and artistic standards. Youth became knowledge collectors, interpreters, and communicators, appropriating new ICTs while rooting their films in Indigenous ways of knowing and communicating, such as storytelling and conversation with Elders. The films produced are compiled as an educational tool for the promotion of biocultural diversity. 2) Collaborative research about territory, carried out by Mapuche researchers in coordination with the Canadian team, aims at restructuring existing knowledge about the geographical, social, and cultural elements of the Lake Budi territory. Information shared by traditional knowledge holders is systematized in audiovisual and written formats. 3) Indigenous youth from Chile and Québec shared videos through an online platform, creating new knowledge through co-learning, analysis of shared challenges, and intercultural exchange." (Abstract)