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pacha mama (feature length fiction)

Writer - Carlo Guillermo Proto
story editor: guillermo verdecchia
composer - inti-illimani

While Easter fast approaches Bolivia’s streets The Mother is offered a large sum of money by Juan Ramirez, a representative of a large Chilean natural gas company, for her deceased husband’s sacred land. At the women’s daily lunch spot, The Sister-In-Laws playfully provoke gossip while fiercely arguing over current political issues as The Friend, an illiterate kiosk owner, mediates their outbursts. While The Mother’s child, The Daughter, rebels against her indigenous roots by assimilating with tourists, the group’s matriarch, The Grandmother, becomes weaker and increasingly more ill as the countries Easter celebrations gain strength. Pacha Mama examines the internal struggle these women face and how their choices will represent an ever-changing shift in the cultural traditions of the indigenous Latin American people.

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