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Being a wawa in the Andes / 2003

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Maja Tillmann Salas
PRATEC
PE PERU
Synopsis: The diverse world in which a child in the Andes of Peru is raised is alive. The inhabitants of the Andes are in constant conversation with the nature. The human beings produce to the nature and the nature raises the human beings. Maria Núñez de Cuchoquesera, Quispillaccta, Ayacucho, describes her life as a garden in which they find different flowers. Maria Núñez is in the same a community of flowers, not as an individual.

Choropampa: The Price of Gold / 2002

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Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd
Ernesto Cabellos
PE PERU
Synopsis: "Choropampa, The Price of Gold" deals with the devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation which transforms a quiet peasant village in Peru into a hot bed of civil resistance. A courageous young mayor emerges to lead his people on a quest for heath care and justice. However, powerful interests conspire to that the villagers at every turn in this 2-year epic chronical of real price of gold.

Loving teacher / 2003

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Maja Tillmann Salas y Rodrigo Otero Heraud
PRATEC
PE PERU
Synopsis: Today, the effort for understanding and to respect the visions of multiple communities in Peru, go towards reporting the topic of education. The approximation between the Andean - Amazonian community and its rural schools, is a fundamental process in which teacher and communities seek to change attitudes, to convert the school in a place in which the children learn in a nice way how to be in both worlds, the proper one and the western modern one, without eroding their cultural identity.

Palpa and Guapido -The Embrace of Memory / 2004

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Joel Calero
Factoria Sur Producciones
PE PERU
Synopsis: In the Central Andes of Peru, some communities celebrate weddings with a ceremony that blends Catholic rites with ancient practices of "Andean reciprocity" such as the "Palpa". As they dance, the members of the community give vibrant, energetic cries called "guapidos" that express fervor, joy, challenge, ecstasy and the energy and strength of their life and culture. This coexistence of these Western and Andean rituals is one of the few living expressions of mestizaje and cultural syncretism that persist in the Peruvian Andes.

Pashmato, An Internal Look / 2003

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Marco Luna
Vision, Media and Human Rights
PE PERU
Synopsis: Pashmato is an independent documentary film that explores the meaning of education inside a jungle family in Peru. This project gives voice to those who have not been listen in communities such as Pashmato. Each member of the Romero family show, by their actions, what is the meaning of education. They know it is something that goes beyond the classrooms and involves love and care.

Tambogrande: mangos, murder, mining / 2006

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Ernesto Cabellos y Stephanie Boyd
Ernesto Cabellos
PE PERU
Synopsis: Adventurous pioneers transform Peru’s northern desert into a fertile valley of fruit orchards. But all they’ve worked for is threatened when gold is discovered under their land. Fear, violence and murder rock their quiet community. In the midst of chaos, a martyr’s vision unites the farmers and leads them down a revolutionary path. These brave men and women take on corrupt politicians and the global mining industry in a tale of ordinary people rising to heroic deeds in times of great crisis.

The ritual nurturance of the chacras in the Andes / 2003

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Julio Valladolid, Rodrigo Otero Heraud y Maja Tillmann Salas
PRATEC
PE PERU
Synopsis: In the Andes and in Selva Alta, there are ten Centres of Cultural Andean Affirmation, NACA's, as executing units of the Project of Conservation In Situ of the Native Cultives and their homologues in the Peruvian Andes, which carry on their activities in coordination with the Andean Project of Rural Technologies, one of all 6 social institutions that intervene in this project that receives the financial support of the World Fund for Environment (FMAM) and the government of Italy, under the administration of the UNDP.

Threading Life around / 2006

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Pelayo Carrillo, Primitivo Jaulis, Marcelo Nuñez, Maja Tillmann Salas y Rodrigo Otero Heraud
PRATEC
PE PERU
Synopsis: Majors learn organizing the 4 moments of reharmonization of the Pasha: Carnivals, Easter, Yarqa Aspiy and Christmas, when they are in charge of rituals where they converse with the deities. This conversation is an exchange of experiences and love which will serve all their life. This it is a form of learning of knowing about deepness of life, it is a form of nursing children of Huarcaya.

To encourage / 2005

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Rosio Achahui Quenti y Maja Tillmann Salas
PRATEC
PE PERU
Synopsis: The FIAC, the Fund of Initiatives of Cultural Affirmation, accompanied us during three years in the recovery of the respect and of the rural trade in Ayllu. "Samaykuy-To give Breath" shows us the experience of the Nucleus of Cultural Andean Affirmation Ceprosi with the FIAC.

Walking along Corn And Bamboo / 2006

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Rosio Achahui Quenti y Maja Tillmann Salas
PRATEC
PE PERU
Synopsis: ¨This corn is our Mother and we go down here from the mount to lead to our communities that stay in height. To make this corn to reach us nicely we call its soul. From bamboo, we do our instruments partying with the animals and cultives.¨, Mariano Quispe Choque of Pitumarca, Cusco's valley tells us. This video shows how the commoners of Pitumarca's valley remembered an ancient way of trade. This path was surrounded by their grandfathers before on foot and with flames and now after several years they went to exchange their cultives, meats, wools and rituals with the communities of Paucartambo's valley.