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Films
4 Films
with a digital version available
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Region
“South America”
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Keywords
“Indigenous peoples First Nations peoples”
and
“Social Change”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
4
x
short films
1
Region
South America
4
x
Country
Colombia
1
Peru
1
Venezuela
1
not set
1
Keywords
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
4
x
Land Rights
1
Material Culture
1
Reflexivity
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Social Change
4
x
Social Conflict
1
Directors
Ash, David
1
Drion, Georges
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Henley, Paul
1
Pasini, Carlos
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
not set
3
Country of production
Norway
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1987
1
2012
1
2016
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Ignacio’s Legacy
2016
52
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Titus Fossgard-Moser
.
Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), "War of the Gods"
South America
Film / Photography / Mass media
Social Change
Reflexivity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
The Quechua
1974
52
‘
Directed by
Carlos Pasini
David Ash
.
This film is set in a community of peasant agriculturalists 2 1/4 miles above sea level in the southern Peruvian Andes. Concentrating on a single family, the film explores aspects of religious and
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Change
Reclaiming the Forest
1987
39
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Georges Drion
.
National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Social Conflict
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