The Ukamau group has a long history that spans more than sixty years. The oral accounts acknowledge that women participated in all the different phases of the group, undertaking instrumental roles in front of and behind the camera. However, they have been overshadowed and erased from the official history due to the auteurist and formalist…[Read more]

Este artículo busca recuperar y dar coherencia a la dispersa información disponible sobre cuatro testimonios fílmicos protagonizados por el líder campesino indígena peruano Saturnino Huillca, entre 1973 y 1977: Runan Caycu (Nora de Izcue, 1973); Jatun Auk’a (Jorge Sanjinés, 1974); Si esas puertas no se abren (Mario Arrieta y Marita Barea, 1975) y…[Read more]

Awarded in Europe but censored in Bolivia during thirteen years, The Courage of the People (Jorge Sanjinés, Bolivia, 1971) is an outstanding example of Latin American collaborative political cinema. The film is an account of the massacre of St John’s eve in the Bolivian mining settlement of Siglo XX in 1967. But it also situates its background, th…[Read more]

This article contextualizes and characterizes production practices in political cinema in Bolivia and Peru between the 1960s and 1990s, reading them as a communitarian endeavor that included many more women than official history acknowledges. It also documents the work of two overshadowed filmmakers—the Bolivian Beatriz Palacios and the Peruvian M…[Read more]