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Films
3 Films
Country
“Venezuela”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
1
Region
South America
3
Country
Venezuela
3
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Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Material Culture
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Henley, Paul
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Series
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
2
not set
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Year of production
1996
1
1998
1
2012
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Uncle Poison
1998
60
‘
Directed by
Ricardo Leizaola
.
Filmed in the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations. Every day,
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Writing Panare – Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to
South America
Linguistics / Language
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change