[Sfbay-video] TODAY, INDIGENOUS FILM SCREENING at NEW COLLEGE* theater, 7pm

[Ariel Lopez]

***INDIGENOUS FILM SCREENING at NEW COLLEGE***
> 
> "El Velo de Berta"
> "The Veil of Berta"
> 
> A film about the Mapuche resistance to the RALCO Dam
> on the Bio Bio 
> River in Chile.
> 
> Jeannette Paillán
> Mapuche filmmaker
> will be at the screening
> 
> Tuesday, October 18, 7pm
> New College Theater
> 777 Valencia Street
> San Francisco
> 
> For more information call: 415-643-8210
> or e-mail ariel_opez at yahoo.com
> 
> “ The Veil of Berta", is a delicate narration of the
> story of Berta 
> Quintreman, an  elderly indigenous women who at the
> age of 88 lead the 
> last group opposing the constrtuction of the Ralco
> project, a gigantic 
> dam that will stop the flow of the Bio Bio River,
> and flood the land  
> where her native Mapuche Pewenche community, Ralco
> Lepoy, have lived 
> for centuries.  A woman with a strong personality
> and a unique blend of 
> humor and energy, Berta lives alone on her small
> pieces of land, and 
> observes all the traditions of her people.  On a
> daily basis she greets 
> the trees and the sun, takes mate ( a typical herbal
> tea) with her dead 
> and says her prayers.  But at the same time she
> confronts the 
> authorities of Endesa and the government, manages to
> halt the machinery 
> and works together with other families to prevent
> the flooding of their 
> land.
> 
> Joris Ivens Competition IDFA 2004- Holland
> 
> Ramsar – Award,  Best Documentary
> V Festival Ecofilms, Greece
> 
> 1st Mention of the Jury
> 3 Continents Film Festival, Italy
> 
> 
> Jeannette Paillán, Director of the Mapuche community
> organization Lulul 
> Mahuida, is a Mapuche filmmaker and journalist.  She
> served as festival 
> coordinator of the 7th Festival of Indigenous Film
> and Video (2004, 
> Santiago, Chile).  Her films have been screening
> internationally since 
> 1994, and her documentary Wallmapu was awarded at
> the 2003 Human Rights 
> Film Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Wallmapu
> (2002) is the first 
> documentary entirely directed and produced by
> Mapuche.  It is the first 
> historical film of Chile from the indigenous
> perspective.  "The Veil of 
> Berta" is her latest film.
> 
> 
> > 
> 


	
		
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