El coraje del pueblo (“The Courage of the People”) (Bolivia) Jorge Sanjinés/Grupo Ukamau, 1971 A member of the Ukamau Group, formed in the 1960s, Jorge Sanjinés has directed and produced numerous films in support of the struggle of the poor in Bolivia, and upholding the cultural values of indigenous communities. Utilizing some of the actual witnesses and victims, and people involved in the labour movement, in El coraje del pueblo Jorge Sanjinés reenacts the events leading up to a wide massacre of miners by the Bolivian government in 1967, when the authorities tried to prevent a meeting of miners, factory workers and students in support of Che Guevara, who was engaged in guerrilla operations in the Ñancahuazú region in Bolivia at the time.
Black Panthers (Huey) (Francia / France) Agnes Varda, 1968 Shot in Oakland, California, in the Summer of 1968, the film documents the Black Panthers’ campaign for the release of their leader, Huey Newton, whose trial turned into a political debate seizing America’s attention.
A la deriva: por los circuitos de la precariedad femenina (“Adrift: on the circuits of female precarity”). Colectivo Precarias a la deriva (Madrid), 2003, Communication, reflection, and cartographies of women’s work outline the precarity of existence in the female mode, in a documentary that seeks to generate collective knowledge and share lived experience in theform of photographs, video and audio recordings and text narratives.
Tapologo A film by Gabriela & Sally Gutiérrez Dewar. Spain/South-Africa, 2008, In Freedom Park, a squatter settlement in South Africa, a group of HIV-infected former sex-workers created a network called Tapologo. They learn to be Home Based Carers for their community, transforming degradation into solidarity and squalor into hope. Catholic bishop Kevin Dowling participates in Tapologo, and raises doubts on the official doctrine of the Catholic Church regarding AIDS and sexuality in the African context.
