SYNOPSIS
Guided by ayahuasca chants, GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS is a poetic journey into the depths of the Amazon. The film explores the perception of time in three small villages intertwined by the flowing waters of the Amazon river, immersing the viewer in a landscape inhabited by shamans and archetypical societies.
This hybrid narrative depicts the bodies of native elders to evoke the ghosts of rubber colonialism at the end of XIX century, the memory of ancient indigenous cultures still alive, but in danger of disappearing as a consequence of global capitalism.
DIRECTORS' NOTE
The Quechua - Lamistas elders are the protagonists of GREEN RIVER: THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS. The film exposes the personal life stories of traditional farming families, fishermen and hunters.
We believe that the Amazon region has a lot to offer to mankind across the globe in terms of spiritual relation to nature. It can give a much-needed positive perspective on what traditional cultures preserve.
Our film is dedicated to the natives who survived to the colonization process of the Amazon, where 9 in 10 inhabitants died as a consequence of the rubber boom extraction during the XIX century.
The bodies of the elders in the film refer us to the ghosts of colonialism who come back bringing the memory of the death, the shadows of ancient indigenous cultures still alive, but in danger of disappearing as a consequence of global capitalism.
Nowadays 66% of native people land in Peru has been concesioned to oil companies polluting our ancestral territories causing deforestation, damaging our biodiversity and exploiting our natural resources.
SCREENINGS
67 Berlin international Film Festival. Germany, 2017
Museum of Modern Art - MoMA Doc Fortnight. USA 2018
NYU New York University, Indigenous Film Show Case 2018
Arcoiris Prize - 32 Trieste Latin American Film Festival. Italy, 2017
Best Documentary on Latin Horizons Focus - 9 Food and Biodiversity Film Festival Tutti Nello Stesso Piatto. Italy, 2017
Audience Award for Feature-Lenght Documentary - 9 Food and Biodiversity Film Festival Tutti Nello Stesso Piatto. Italy, 2017
Best Indigenous Documentary Film - 5 Documenta Caracas. Venezuela, 2017
Special Prize - 5 Al Este Film Festival. USA, 2018
Special Prize - 5 Cinemistica Film Festival. Spain, 2017
Special Prize - 5 Huanuco Peruvian Film Festival. Peru, 2018
Best Documentary Film - 3 BangkokThai International Film Festival. Thailand, 2017
50 Viña del Mar Film Festival. Chile, 2017
39 La Habana Latin American Film Festival. Cuba, 2017
38 Durban Film Festival. South Africa, 2017
36 LASA - International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Spain, 2018
32 Guadalajara Film Festival. Mexico, 2017
32 Society for Visual Anthropology’s Film and Media Festival. USA, 2018
25 Valdivia Film Festival. Chile, 2018
25 CineLatino Latin American Film Festival. Germany, 2018
21 Lima Film Festival. Peru, 2017
20 Skábmagovat – Indigenous Peoples’ Film Festival. Finland, 2018
19 Canary Islands Environmental Film Festival - FICMEC. Spain, 2017
18 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Canada, 2017
15 Matsalu Nature Film Festival. Estonia, 2017
14 German Ethnographic Film Festival. Germany, 2018
13 FICMAYAB Indigenous Film Festival. Guatemala, 2018
12 Indigenous Film + Video Festival. Chile, 2018
11 Atlantidoc - Uruguay Documentary Film Festival. Uruguay, 2017
11 Peruvian Film Festival at Paris. France, 2019
11 Dominican Republic Global Film Festival. Dominican Republic, 2018
10 Wassermusik Festival – Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Germany, 2017
10 Cine+Mas San Francisco Latino Film Festival. USA, 2018
10 Sembrando Cine Environmental Film Festival. Peru, 2018
9 Bolivia Lab - Muestra de Películas Peruanas. Bolivia, 2017
6 GNG Green Earth Film Festival. USA, 2018
5 Festival de Arte Dule - Muestra de Cine Indígena. Panamá, 2017
4 HipTrip Travel Film Festival. Rumania, 2017
4 Trujillo Film Festival. Peru, 2017
4 Bozcaada Festival of Ecological Documentary. Turkey, 2017
3 Panoramica Latin American Film Festival. Sweden, 2017
3 Peruvian Film Week. Peru, 2017
3 Vi viendo Cine Environmental Film Festival. Peru, 2018
CAST
Custodio Sangama
Albina Tapullima
Samuel Sangama
Andrea Sinarahua
CREW
Direction & Production: Alvaro & Diego Sarmiento
Screenplay: Alvaro Sarmiento
General Producer: Alvaro Sarmiento
DOP: Diego Sarmiento & Jair Guillen
Sound: Carina Rosanna Tautu & Marco Panatonic
Music: Winston Tangoa
Edition: Alex Cruz & Fabricio Deza
Color Correction: Jorge Sabana
Sound Design: Alex Cruz
Sound Mix: Fonica Studio, Carlos Flores
Illustration: Miguel Vilca & Xekah