“Dolores”: teaser!
Work on Patricia’s film continues – now she’s looking for post-production funding! Here’s a teaser to whet your appetite.
Work on Patricia’s film continues – now she’s looking for post-production funding! Here’s a teaser to whet your appetite.
In Times of Rain (Itandehui Jansen, 2018) is a feature film inspired by my own migration from a rural community to the city when I was an 11-year-old boy. This is not an autobiographical narrative but it does try to convey different aspects of the migration of children and teenagers from rural communities to urban […]
Alma and Esperanza (Itandehui Jansen, 2012) was the second short film in which I participated as co-writer and producer. The idea for this story came to the director, Itandehui Jansen, when we went to the community of Santa María Apazco along with her children to visit my parents. The contrast between the affection displays from […]
The first fiction short film I wrote and produced was The Last Council (Itandehui Jansen, 2012). The story is inspired by a real event that happened in my native community when I was a child. During each change of command in my community the people’s money is counted in public. Everything is displayed in an […]
Over the last ten years I have participated as scriptwriter and producer for different film projects spoken in Mixtec and I want to share some of my experiences in writing and producing films in an indigenous language. I started writing plays in Mixtec with the purpose of revitalising my own language. Film interests me because […]
This period of work has enabled us to delve into the life of Dolores with an extended research, not only through bibliographic review but also through interviews with her closest relatives (son, daughter-in-law) and with leaders from the community where she was born (San Pablo Urco-Cayambe). This gave us a guideline to plot an outline […]
The writing of the script has been made through an inside exploration of the history of the struggle of farmers and Indigenous people in Ecuador during the hacienda era of land tenure. It was necessary to write far away from Quito, and the city’s immediate access to media technology, in order to arrive at the […]
During the residency Patricia is developing the script and treatment of her first feature-length film, Dolores, about the leader Dolores Cacuango. Today she shares some reflections about her methodology and fragments of the notebooks where she jots down her ideas.
My great aunt Zoilita, the last of 12 siblings, is a brown-skinned and curly-haired Wayuu woman of the Sijono clan. She arrived in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in the midst of the oil boom in the 1970s. A beautiful woman who, along with several cousins, organized cultural performances of Yonna (Wayuu traditional dance) for different events across […]
I am in the process of developing a feature film, Dolores, inspired by the life of the Indigenous leader, Dolores Cacuango. During the residency I would like to review the audio/visual recordings made for the film to date and reflect upon the creative process. I would like to somehow render the complex and solitary work […]