Short Doc #Visibilización
- Production and Script: Mabel Medina
- Script, Camera, and Editing: Andrea Valencia
In Co-Production with The National Agrarian Confederation CNA and mamágrande films.
Short documentary about the notion and struggle for the construction of identity in the fragmented Peruvian society, within the context of the national census of 2017 in Peru (which included for the first time a wider range of indigenous and racial identifiers, rather than then old-school: white/mixed/yellow/indian/black). This short film was filmed in Puno, where live a majority of Quechua and Aymara communities, questioning why it has taken so long for them to “exist” on paper.
Historias de Café
- Direction and Script: Raúl Zevallos
- Camera and Editing: Andrea Valencia
Co-produced by the University of San Marcos and the University of the Basque Country.
The documentary shows the complex economic relationships established among the coffee farmers, the market, the State, and the native inhabitants of the Peruvian Amazon, within the #Fairtrade scheme. It traces in part the historical origins of the cooperative and retributive economy in Perú, as an alternative to both the never-ending corruption from any government-based or aided programs or to the below minimum wages that are especially trendy in rural communities, inflicted by private companies or monopolies.
Q’ari hinan (Thus like a man)
This short doc is the testimony of Albina Mamani, a Quechua great-grandmother who lives in Puno, Perú, and is encouraged to recount her life story by her grandson (and co-director Raúl Cartagena) who is both eager to hear her and hopeful for a therapeutic outcome in allowing her to express herself through the language barriers.
The documentary is focused on showing her relentless smile rather than on the details of the near-slavery situation and the absolute lack of choices she lived as a result of being a woman, being poor, and being indigenous in the countryside of Perú.
- Co-Director, Script, Photography and Editing: Andrea Valencia
- Co-Director and Script: Raúl Cartagena
‘Best Documentary’
X International Short Film Festival FENACO PERÚ 2013
Lakino Berlin
Latin America Film Festival Berlin
‘Best Documentary’
VMT Film Festival
- First place in the short film competition “Intercultural Dialogue, Gender and Democracy”, held by the NGO Manuela Ramos. Contest sponsored by the European Union and the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños EICTV Cuba.
- Selected by the Metropolitan council of Lima for the Artistic and Cultural Initiatives for the Woman’s Month.
- Exhibited and projected at the city main square on March 29th, 2014.
The taste of asparagus
Co-Director, Camera and Editing:
Andrea Valencia
The documentary collects testimonies on labour exploitation by agro-exporting companies in the north of Peru. Produced by the NGO Aurora Vivar and FOS Socialistische Solidariteit. (Closed-circuit exhibition due to witness protection)
Brasiguaios
- Director, Script and Research: Marcos Estrada
- Editing and Post: Andrea Valencia
Documentary-thesis about the life stories and identities of the community called Brasiguaios, whose lives are marked by the pursuit of land for agricultural production, between Brazil and Paraguay. This is a very large group of farmers that migrated to Paraguay but then were denied their Brazilian identity and lands on their return to Brazil.
Filmed as part of a PHD Research on Border Studies.
Selected/Awarded at 4th Festival Brasil de Cinema Internacional, Cardiff International Film Festival, Global Migration Film Festival, Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Los Angeles CineFest, and Festival Internacional de Cinema da Fronteira.
Human Rights Case report
A short excerpt from a video report for the Association for Human Rights – APRODEH, exposing a human rights violation case in Mala, Lima. This ongoing violation of human rights in Perú allows the police to imprison and even shoot at peaceful demonstrators.
1-min doc Guardianas de la vida
Director, Camera, and Editing: Andrea Valencia
Selected and presented by the Fondo de Acción Urgente – Latin America and the Caribbean (FAU-AL) to pay homage to the women defenders of nature, territory and universal goods, during the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day (Colombia, November 29th, 2016)
Awarded in the Film Contest “Mujeres: culturas y comunidades” organized by the Ibero American Program IberCultura Viva (Brasil, February 24th, 2017)
Testimony of Máxima Acuña
Máxima Acuña is a Peruvian farmer and mother who along with her family members endured attacks from both the mining company and the government in order to bully her into selling her lands to the Peruvian-American Yanacocha-Newmont Mining corporation.
This interview was done with the aim of accompanying the images registered by her daughter on her cellphone, who is pretending to call for help at a moment where she had no idea of who to call and from a countryside highland location where the reception is extremely weak. Her sole objective at the moment was to avoid a deadly police attack.
En el corazón de Conga
This is the first documentary where I worked (Directing, Camera, Editing and Translation). It has a collective and chaotic nature, but we somehow managed to film it and edit it in 2 months, not bothering to send it to any film contests in the end due to the chaos but mainly because our main interest was to project it and reach as many people as possible, as soon as possible.
Cajamarca has a long history of mining and is also ironically one of the poorest regions in Perú. Conga was set to be the largest gold mining project in the world. In this independent documentary, the inhabitants of the area of influence of a mining project in Cajamarca talk about the impact it would have on their lives. Due to the unprecedented state of protest this region lived in for a whole year against the mining project, it remains paralyzed to this day
Máxima / Report
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