THINKING ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA THROUGH THE LENS OF INDIGENOUS FILMMAKING
SHA’À
By : Peregrino Shanocua Chaeta, Presented in collaboration with “If Not Us Then Who?”
2022 | 3min | VOSTA
Country of origin of director : Peru
Country of production: Peru
Country of recording: Peru
SYNOPSIS :
Peregrino is a young Indigenous person from the Ese Eja community of Madre de Dios in Peru. He must seek guarantees for his life after having receiving threats for opposing illegal gold miners affecting a protected area part of his community’s ancestral territory. This film explores what happens when a government is unable to protect its environmental defenders.
BIOGRAPHY :
Peregrino Shanocua Chaeta is a filmmaker, narrator and spokesperson for his community, Ese Eja de Madre de Dios, which is located in the southwestern Amazon basin, between Bolivia and Peru.
Free admission subject to availability of seats
tuesday may 9th, from 6:30 pm
CINÉMA MODERNE
5150 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1R8
