Queimada – o uso de um filme histórico na formação em saúde, haiti, 2012

Abstract: This paper conducts a critical analysis of the film Burn!, which was used in epidemiology training for health care system workers in Haiti. The film is old but is relevant to a recent initiative that, in a way, brings it into the present. The story takes place on a fictional island called Queimada located in the Lesser Antilles. The name of the film is explained by the fact that the Portuguese burned the island to overcome the Indian resistance during the process of colonization, during which nearly all of the natives were killed. Thereafter, the Portuguese begin to traffic slaves from Africa to work in the cane fields. According to island legend, which is recounted early in the film, there is a white flat stone on the beach called the White Cemetery of the Negros. The bodies of slaves who died during the voyage were placed there.