2/13/2013: Sachamanta is shown in selected movie theaters and at festivals. On the other hand, every community center, each seminar room, every classroom and any youth club can be turned into a cinema. So if you want to show the film yourself, just get yourself a projector and a monitor and write us an email to mail@kameradisten.info. more
Knowledge is power
2/1/2013: Who wants to make radio requires the necessary resources. Transmission towers and frequencies are not for download on the net. However, a fine piece of software is. more
It has been filmed…
1/27/2013: About four weeks the Kameradists were traveling in Argentina to bring back to the Campesinos their own cinematic history (Sachamanta) as well as the reactions of the german audience on this story. We were accompanied by the support of hundreds of people at home. more
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Sachamanta
7/21/2012: The north of Argentina in the year 2000: At a congress the peasant and indigenous communities organized within the Movimiento Campesino in Santiago del Estero (MoCaSe-Via Campesina) decided something previously unheard of: They will build and operate their own radio stations. more
Today they dance. Tomorrow they’ll fight.
5/22/2012: Region of Santiago del Estero, April, a summer night in 2010: I saw the courageous people dancing. They danced to their favorite music from their radios. Bare feet swirling dust. Hands find hands. Lights flash through the darkness. more
Almost done
4/22/2012: Sachamanta is nearing completion, but there is still a whole lot to do. At the moment, we are in the final production stages, but still need to do have the following tasks: stabilization, conversion, color correction (adjustment of light and color is necessary because the raw material was taken in different years), embedding the film music, sound design, and completion of the animation sequences. more
Concepting Sachamanta
3/26/2012: In many ways Sachamanta is not a typical documentary: The film’s concept was not clearly set in stone before shooting, but was developed as we watched the raw footage; The interviews were partly created by the interviewees themselves; The film’s story is told four times in different ways, without repetition. more