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South America
Another fantastic day has gone by at The 9th Amazonas Film Festival.
We have been transported by bus deepr in the amazonas, about 2 hours drive for a traditional amazonian breakfast (tapioca, fruit juices...) and a visit to a sanctuary, preserved area of a few square kilometers around a set of 3 waterfalls, where we bathed at length, fighting against an incredibly strong current.
Check the video, coming soon, from a place where Internet will be stronger.
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Director: Natalie Adorno.
The word Paez WEDX YÚ means "water fish" and it was the name of the territory of the ancestors of the current shelter in San Andrés de Pisimbalá where is the Archaeological Park of Tierradentro, in the department of Cauca, Colombia. The current descendants of the NASA people are rediscovering their identity and regaining its cultural tradition organizing a meeting of three days. It is a testimony for the recovery of memory and tradition. The meeting is organized by a party host chosen by the community, it is organized around a ritual of harmonization and thanks to Mother Earth. Traditional doctors prepared the remedy of harmonization for the whole community that comes with pleasure. Harmonization for life, peace and coexistence. This is life, not disunity. It is the tradition and anybody could not live without it because a people who do not look to its past is a people that has no clear future. Thus, in this environment that looks to its ancestors, through music, traditional food thanks to the Minga (ancient tradition of community for purposes of social utility.) and the exchange of products and the recovery of a rock, this cultural encounter is made to "recover what eighty years ago was lost.”
AWKA LIWEN – REBELLION AT DAWN by Osvaldo Bayer (mail autor and screen writer of “La Patagonia Rebelde," SilverBear 1974), Mariano Aiello and Kristina Hille Synopsis Awka Liwen is story about the eternal fight for the lands in Argentina, since the murder of the natives. Under the cover that "the civilized population" had to be protected before "the barbarism," they were murdered and robbed oftheir countries. These outrages were never officially criticized or deba...
Brazilian doc CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON intrigues Viewers at Jules Vernes Adventure Film Festival in PARISChildren of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her jour- ney tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart. For countless...
Denise Zmekhol writes from Paris on AWARDS NIGHT of the Jules Verne Adventure Festival April 27th, 2009 :
Children of the Amazon got two awards last night!!!
Jules Verne Award for Best Picture
Jules Verne Youth Choice Award
Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a
modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenou...
Interview with Olivier WeberCongratulation Olivier your film will show May 16th at 10:00pm in the Palais (K)Yes and will meet the audience: I cannot wait for this opportunity.Why did you choose this topic, the world of gold? After I travelled to the Amazon, I was struck by this peculiar world of gold. The men who live around the gold mines in the forest live in extremely difficult conditions. While very few live by, some become very rich overnight. A war opposes the two—no holds barred. The su...
Synopsis A new gold rush is sweeping through the Amazon rainforest where scores of women and men hunt for nuggets and specks of gold. But this race for gold is bringing on the destruction of one of the last earthly paradises, the world’s largest tropical forest, the lungs of our planet, where everything and anything can be paid in gold. As a result, a gold ingot cycle has developed—with its batch of insolvents, prostitutes, godfathers, traffickers, whether in French Guiana, Brazil or Surinam...
BC: Olivier Hello, why did you choose this topic, the world of gold? After I travelled to the Amazon, I was struck by this peculiar world of gold. The men who live around the gold mines in the forest live in extremely difficult conditions. While very few live by, some become very rich overnight. A war opposes the two-no holds barred. The surrounding brutishness is massive. And yet, they are so well organized! In the depths of the Amazon, the lungs of our planet, the gold mines are surrounded b...
Satere Mawe Indian, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
It all Started with Guarana !: Satere Mawé Indian in Brazil
Author:
Bastien Beaufort, Sébastian Wolf
Rating:
8
Review:
GUARANA, THE TREASURE OF THE SATERE MAWE TRIBE IN BRAZIL's RAINFOREST
Launched on April 21, 2008, in the Bastille neighbourhood office of Fair Trade Dealer GUAYAPI Topical, this
native
SEARCHING FOR PERU
THE IRELA PERUVIAN FILM ARCHIVE COLLECTION
Researching the Film Archives
The little-known historical cinema culture of this Andean nation has
found a heroine in an indefatigable and earnest native archive
researcher, Irela NUNEZ DEL POZO, who although currently based in
Italy, criss-crosses...
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