Yanara Guayasamín
Birth : , Ecuador
History
Yanara Guayasamín is one of the most prolific Ecuadorian filmmakers. She is known for her documentaries 'Cuba, el valor de una utopía' and 'De cuando la muerte nos visitó'.
Director
Eyewitnesses, including Castro himself, look back on the period of resistance and the toppling of Batista's dictatorship. By zooming in on the individual within the collective, the detailed story of the revolution unfolds. In the oral tradition, various Cubans report on oppression, violence, arrests, kidnappings, shootouts, escapes, the guerrilla fight from the mountains and the subsequent triumphant entry into Havana. Their stories are interspersed with archive footage and pictures showing the beauty of contemporary Cuba. In this film, the revolutionary generation muses on the situation on the island 47 years after the heroic revolution.
Sound
An ordinary day in the life of a community on the Santa Elena Peninsula, on the Ecuadorian coast. The many characters in this documentary –simple people, heir to an ancient culture– present the true protagonist: death.
Editor
An ordinary day in the life of a community on the Santa Elena Peninsula, on the Ecuadorian coast. The many characters in this documentary –simple people, heir to an ancient culture– present the true protagonist: death.
Producer
An ordinary day in the life of a community on the Santa Elena Peninsula, on the Ecuadorian coast. The many characters in this documentary –simple people, heir to an ancient culture– present the true protagonist: death.
Writer
An ordinary day in the life of a community on the Santa Elena Peninsula, on the Ecuadorian coast. The many characters in this documentary –simple people, heir to an ancient culture– present the true protagonist: death.
Director
An ordinary day in the life of a community on the Santa Elena Peninsula, on the Ecuadorian coast. The many characters in this documentary –simple people, heir to an ancient culture– present the true protagonist: death.
Director
Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, with more than 600 portraits in his pictorial career, (among which are F. Mitterrand, Carolina de Mónaco, Juan Carlos I, Rigoberta Menchu) paints his self-portrait, while he tells us the foundations of his art.
First Assistant Director
Between Marx and a Naked Woman is the adaptation of a novel written by Ecuadorian Poet, Jorge Enrique Adoum. The scenes of this film insert us into Ecuador in the sixties, when the electoral struggle, convoked by the military government for a new return to democracy, is in full force. Galvez’s left-wing party must elect its candidate, but he is shoved to one side because of the criticism of the party’s political leadership. While his struggle becomes bitter, he must withstand the frustration of not being able to offer full love to Margaramaría, another party member.
Director
Anna comes from a violent past that has left her a recluse in her solitude.When a man knocks at the door her infancy returns....Will Anna open the door to the universe that she has created for herself to let life enter?
Writer
Les Enfants de la Terre, documentary short
Writer
In a village in Belgium, the earth opens up, letting out the voice of a man, a stone worker. His fingers sculpt and carve, but the flashes of stone stop at the walls of a small workshop attached to his house. Each blow of his chisel rips a piece of history, of conscience, of struggle into oblivion. Meanwhile, not so far from his workshop, the quarry, without age, without memory, advances, devours the surrounding houses, the streets, the town, the roots...
Director
In a village in Belgium, the earth opens up, letting out the voice of a man, a stone worker. His fingers sculpt and carve, but the flashes of stone stop at the walls of a small workshop attached to his house. Each blow of his chisel rips a piece of history, of conscience, of struggle into oblivion. Meanwhile, not so far from his workshop, the quarry, without age, without memory, advances, devours the surrounding houses, the streets, the town, the roots...
Writer
A journey that recounts the life of Isabel de Godin, a relentless adventurer of the 18th century, who travelled from nowadays Ecuador, through the Amazon Rainforest to France, in pursuit of her dream. Little did she know that through this odyssey she would discover the power of will over the certainty of death. In search of her strenght and her path, we’ll encounter inspiring people, whose experiences rhyme with Isabel’s and give live to this past character, whilst unveiling hidden themes still hushed to this day.
Director
A journey that recounts the life of Isabel de Godin, a relentless adventurer of the 18th century, who travelled from nowadays Ecuador, through the Amazon Rainforest to France, in pursuit of her dream. Little did she know that through this odyssey she would discover the power of will over the certainty of death. In search of her strenght and her path, we’ll encounter inspiring people, whose experiences rhyme with Isabel’s and give live to this past character, whilst unveiling hidden themes still hushed to this day.
