Todos Santos Cuchumatan / produced and directed by Olivia Lucia Carrescia ; produced in association with New York Visual Anthropology Center.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Carrescia, Olivia, film director, film producer, film editor.

New York Visual Anthropology Center.

Icarus Films.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians of Central America--Guatemala.

Indians of Central America.

Manners and customs.

Guatemala.

Todos Santos Cuchumatán (Guatemala).

Guatemala--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (42 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

Available from some providers with subtitle: Report from a Guatemalan village

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]

Language Note:

In English, Spanish and native dialect with English voice-over.

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:

Examines everyday life in Todos Santos before the violence. Discusses the increasing importance of cash to this once self-sustaining farming community. Shows the annual harvest, the elaborate Fiesta of Todos Santos, and the mass seasonal migration out of the mountain village in search of work on the cotton plantations of Guatemala's lowlands. Illustrates the social changes in the lives of Guatemalan Indians that led to the political upheaval of the 1980's.

Participant:

Narration, Olivia Lucia Carrescia.

Credits:

Photography, Vicente Galindez; editing, Olivia Lucia Carrescia, Robert Rosen.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: New York Visual Anthropology Center, c1982.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed July 6, 2015).

Publisher Number:

if-todo Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.