As Wayuu women we are conscious about the responsibility concerning the continuity of our Wayuu lineage. We have accepted the traditional confinement through which we are initiated and which brings us closer to the traditions connected to our fundamental roles in our culture. This confinement signals our transition from childhood to adolescence as it takes […]
Initially we thought about filming three characters in different cultural contexts: a Lenca woman, a Chorti woman and a Garifuna woman. But when we found out about the real life of Betty Vázquez we realized that that there was a whole new documentary centered on the stories of the women who revolve around Betty’s life […]
Yallico has directed, produced and scripted several short experimental, fiction and documentary films. A selection of her works can be viewed on Vimeo featured here. Ñukanchikpa. Scriptwriter, Director and Producer. Experimental Video. 1.57 min. Argentina, 2016. Teresa de las alas largas. General Producer. Drama. 24.12 min. Ecuador, 2016. El rumor del ocaso. Director. Drama. 9.46 […]
The importance of this documentary lies in its intention to celebrate alternative economies and ecologies that have arisen in spite of—and in response to—the extractivist agenda in Honduras, one of the most aggressive of the 21st century. Over the last decade, the Honduran state has tried to expand its extractivist sectors (mining, silviculture, industrial agriculture, […]
In August 2018 I was invited to participate as a teacher at the “Mesoamerican School for Indigenous, Black and Farmer Women of Central America and the South of Mexico”. I traveled to Honduras for the first time, a country of which little was known in these lands, but which began to feature in the media […]
Leiqui Uriana has directed documentaries such as El cedrón, made in the Sierra Maestra in Cuba, and her degree film Asuntos indígenas. She also participated as filmmaker in the documentary series Ser un ser humano (To Be A Human) (2011), produced by the EICTV with the support of six film schools from around the world, […]
María is currently working on the development of Por la vida (For Life) a feature documentary that addresses the struggle and resistance of Lenca women in Honduras who weave day by day towards Buen Vivir, a good life, by means of community alternatives to extractivism and patriarchy.
We have published a press release about the call for films to translate and the final selected works on the CLACPI website. The four selected works translated and subtitled as part of this specific activity are: Kat At Kat’ex/ ¿Dónde Están? (Eduardo Mutzumá Say, Colectivo Cine en la Calle, 2017) Kiñe rupa (capítulo primero, Kiñe) […]
In June 2019, a committee comprising Bashé Nuhem (Qom, Argentina). David Hernández Palmar (Wayúu, Venezuela), Amalia Córdova (Mother Tongue Film Festival, Smithsonian, Washington DC) and myself worked on designing a Call for Submissions for a subtitling project with Indigenous films. Five works were selected to participate in the programme, an initiative which has emerged from […]
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