Camera Operator
Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition, and how he came to drink the plant medicine ayahuasca under his father's tutelage. Arévalo leads an ayahuasca ceremony for Westerners, and shares with us something of his understanding of the plants and the onaya tradition.
Director
A warm and human portrait of Victor Churay and is narrated in the artist's own voice. The film traces the artist's personal and family history. Most of the documentary is filmed in natural settings of his Pucaurquillo. Family scenes are observed. The relationship he had with his parents and his siblings. But we also see the painter appreciated by the population and whom they had as pride and example. Other scenes are filmed in Lima. A fan of Universitario de Deportes and a student of History at the University of San Marcos. According to the documentary, Churay, in the jungle or in the city, was always the same, a stubborn man demanding respect for his aboriginal culture.
