Jesús Bosque, Miguel Vidal y Guillermo Campo

Cine de montaña

Technical Information

    LENGTH: 23 minutes.
    LOCATION: Tierradentro, Colombia.  December 1992
    RECORD FORMAT: Betacam SP
    EDITING FORMAT: U-Matic Sp
    AUTHOR: Jesús Bosque
    DIRECTOR ASSISTANT: Javier Brun
    PRODUCER: Education Program. Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (C.R.I.C.)
    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Inocencio Ramos
    SCRIPT: Inocencio Ramos y Carlos Miñana
    PHOTOGRAPHY: Catalina Cerón
    MUSICAL CONSULTANT: Carlos Miñana (Colombia National University)
    DOCUMENTATION: Graciela Bolaños
    ACTORS: Arquímedes Pazo, Martina Pacho Tucumán and Lisardo Fiscué
    SPEECH: Margarita Posadas and Inocencio Ramos
    TRANSPORTATION: José Antonio Calvo
    SOUNDTRACK: Conjuntos de: La Troja, El Cuartel, San José, Vitoncó, Taravira, Wila y San Andrés (Tierradentro, Colombia)

KÜC'H WALA
The Dance of the Young Negros

The Dance of the Young Negros

Songs, dances and customs, a mixture of Catholicism and paganism, are presented by the protagonists.

This anthropological document analyzes very old traditions that the new Christianism has not been able to eradicate: the festive rite of Küc´h Wala, founded in the indigenous culture Nasa, located in the Colombian region of Cauca.

 

Presentations and Awards

  • I Certamen de Video sobre Medio Ambiente. NATURAMA. Valsaín, Segovia. Dic. 93
  • I Muestra de Videorealizadore Oscenses. Huesca. Oct. 94
  • V Festival Internacional de Video de Canarias. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Oct. 94
  • Festival de Cine-Video de las Primeras Naciones. Quito. Dic. 94
  • VII Bienal de Cine y Video Científico Español. Zaragoza. Dic. 95

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