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| Title: | Amazon Watch:
Chevron Texaco. Ecuador's black plague
Peru's Camisea project: risky business
Burlington resources in Ecuador; |
| Director: | Greg Bernstein, Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (29 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | New York : Witness, 2005 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | WITNESS partner Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development including oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects. This collection of videos examines globalization, multinationals, and the increasing focus on mega-projects to address the area's economic problems, which has led to environmental and cultural devastation in the region.
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| Plot: | Chevron Texaco. Ecuador's black plague (2002) (5 minutes)
Amazon Watch. Producer, Leila Salazar ; director, Greg Bernstein ; editor, Ariel López.
Documents the cancer and death from pollution and oil spills and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest area in Ecuador by Chevron Texaco.
Camisea: Risky Business (Perú: El Proyecto Camisea Un Negocio Riesgoso) (2003) (13 min.)
Directed by Amazon Watch. Produced by Atossa Soltani, United States 2004. language English with subtitles Spanish.
Peru's Camisea Gas Project is currently the most damaging project in the Amazon Basin. Located in the remote Urubamba Valley in the south-east Peruvian Amazon, the $1.6 billion project includes two pipelines to the Peruvian coast cutting through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot described by scientists as "the last place on earth" to drill for fossil fuels. Nearly 75 percent of gas extraction operations are located inside a State Reserve for indigenous peoples living with little or no contact with the outside world, who have been forcibly contacted by the Camisea consortia in violation of their internationally recognized rights. A gas processing plant is being built on the Peruvian coast within the buffer zone of a marine reserve of international significance. 2004.
Current information at:
http://www.amazonwatch.org/amazon/PE/camisea/
Burlington Resources in Ecuador (2004) 11 min.
Burlington's Oil Projects Vs. Indigenous Communities and Rainforest Protection.
Current information at:
http://www.amazonwatch.org/amazon/EC/burling/
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| Subjects: | Documentary Films. Peru. Ecuador. Petroleum industry and trade. Environmental aspects. Indigenous Communities. Amazon |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Flames in the forest |
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| Format: | 1 videocassette (52 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1992. |
| Language: | Spanish. English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Documentary. At head of series title: Savage: indigenous peoples standing their ground.
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| Plot: | Since the 1950-s, the Amazon Indians of eastern Ecuador have bitterly resisted the invasion of international oil companies which, with the encouragement of the Ecuadorian government, seek to use the resource-rich region for intensive oil production.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Ecuador. Achuar Indians. Indigenous peoples |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | The longing: the forgotten Jews of South America |
| Director: | Gabriela Böhm |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (75 min.) ; sd., col., (some b&w) ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | New York : Filmakers Library, distributor, 2007. |
| Language: | English and Spanish, with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Böhm Productions presents ; produced and directed by Gabriela Böhm ; edited by Jonathan Brock and Gabriela Böhm. Cinematographer, Guillermo Zappino ; original score by Miriam Cutler.
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| Plot: | A small group of South Americans are eager to affirm their Jewish faith. Their ancestors - Spanish Jews - were forced to convert during the Inquisition. Even after centuries of living in the New World as Catholics and intermarrying, their families still managed to secretly pass down some Jewish traditions from generation to generation. These practices have convinced them that they were originally Jews and fuel their desire to convert. Set in Ecuador, 'The longing' tells the story of a group of "conversos" attempting to regain their birthright. Among those featured are three women who traveled 36 hours roundtrip, by bus, from Colombia and a couple from a small Ecuadorian town. On the Internet, they have found a Brazilian-American rabbi (Jacques Cukierkorn) from Kansas City committed to helping "lost Jews" throughout the world reclaim their identities. Now they are meeting the rabbi in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The film provides a rare glimpse into the conversion process, including the ritual mikvah (submersion) and Beit Din (rabbinical court).
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Latin America. Ecuador. Colombia.Conversion Judaism. Crypto-Jews. Jewish Christians -- Cases. Rabbinical courts. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Nomads of the rainforest. |
| Director: | Adrian Warren |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format. |
| Imprint: | [Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, c1984. |
| Language: | Dialogue in English
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| Notes: | Produced by Grant G. Behrman ; directed by Adrian Warren ; written by Grant G. Behrman, Robert E. Dierbeck, James A. Yost ; a Grant G. Behrman film in association with WGBH Boston. Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of: Nova. Cinematography, Hugh Maynard; editor, Peter Scheer; narrator, Richard Kiley; music, Ted Moore; anthropological consultant, James A. Yost
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| Plot: | Presents an anthropological study of the Waorani Indians of the Amazon River in Ecuador. This dwindling Stone Age tribe-s way of life is threatened by the encroachments and environmental depredations of the outside world.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Ecuador. Huao Indians. Amazonia. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Quito at the crossroads |
| Director: | Miguel Angel Corzo and Mahasti Afshar. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (27 min.) . sd., col. ; 1 2 in. |
| Imprint: | Marina del Rey, CA . Getty Conservation Institute, 1994 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | executive producer Miguel Angel Corzo ; written and produced by Mahasti Afshar ; [presented by the Getty Conservation Institute].
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| Plot: | Shows how Quito-s government and local organizations are collaborating with the Getty Conservation Institute to save the city-s historic center. Explores the challenge of preserving the physical fabric of a historic city while accomodating the needs and aspirations of the people who live and work there.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Ecuador. Quito (Ecuador). Description and travel. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | The sound of rushing water. |
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| Format: | 1 videocassette (42 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.. VHS. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley, Calif. : Tricontinental Film Center ; New York, N.Y. : Cinema Guild [distributor], 199-]. |
| Language: | English narration with some Spanish and Shuar dialogue with English subtitles
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| Notes: | Notes: Produced by Shuar Indian Federation (Ecuador). Originally released in 1974.
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| Plot: | Recounts the history of the Shuar (or Jivaro) people-s resistance against the Inca and Spanish Empires and their present efforts to maintain their cultural identity in the face of pressure from Latin American republics to assimilate. Includes sequences showing the yaje ritual, the use of the blow-gun, family life, interviews with Shuar Federation leaders, and a depiction of Shuar history and legends through paintings
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Ecuador. Peru. Jivaran Indians. Shuar Indians. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Zulay facing the 21st century. |
| Director: | Jorge Prelorán |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (26 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | Hollywood, Calif. ; sd., col. ; |
| Language: | In Spanish, Quechua, and English, with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Notes: A film by Jorge Prelorán, Mabel Prelorán and Zulay Saravino. Produced and directed by Jorge Prelorán, Mabel Prelorán, and Zulay Saravino.
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| Plot: | Zulay Sarvino is part of a family of weavers in the Quinchuqui village of the Otavalo region in the Andean highlands of Ecuador. The film shows her family-s life in the first half, but in the second half Zulay accompanies the filmmakers back to Los Angeles to seek out new markets for their weavings.
Filmed over the course of eight years, this film is a dialogue between Zulay Saravino, an Otavalen indigenous woman from Ecuador, and Mabel Preloran, an Argentine anthropologist living in Los Angeles, California. They discuss the problems both of them have faced as women adapting themselves to life in the United States. A universal documentary on transculturation, and the decisions one must face regarding identity, education, economic improvement, and emotional ties.
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Ecuador. Ethnology. Weavers. Otavalo. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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