Guañape Sur / executive producers, Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella, János Richter ; direction, János Richter ; ZELIG.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Richter, János, film director.

ZELIG (Firm)

Icarus Films.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Guano industry--Peru.

Guano industry.

Manual scavengers--Peru.

Manual scavengers.

Peru.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Short films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (24 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2011]

Language Note:

In Spanish with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Guañape Sur is a barren rock island off the coast of Peru. Around its shores, a restricted area has been established. The island serves hundreds of thousands of sea birds as a breeding ground. One of its peculiarities is that for a period of ten years only two men may live on it, in the eleventh year though, hundreds of men simultaneously pounce on its slopes in order to recover the bird's bequests: dried excrement. Harvesting [guano] from the sharp rock is a brutal fight. Everything on the island is done by hand.

Credits:

Cinematography, Jakob Stark ; editing, János Richter.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: ZELIG, c2010.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 19, 2015).

Publisher Number:

if-sur Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.