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All Roads Showcase-El Regalo de la Pachamama

  • Date
    October 2, 2009
  • Time 7 PM
  • Location Washington, D.C.
  • Price Members: $8/General Public: $10

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Photo: Llamas

Photographs courtesy Toshifumi Matsushita

Photograph courtesy Toshifumi Matsushita

El Regalo de la Pachamama

Director: Toshifumi Matsushita

At Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni (Salt Lake), where many families work with salt, a 13-year-old boy named Kunturi lives a traditional Quechua life with his family. His life begins to change when his father takes him on his first trip with the llama caravan. For three months he travels the Ruta de la Sal, exchanging blocks of salt his father and other villagers have chipped from the lake, for other needed goods. He learns from experiences he encounters along the way, including meeting Ulala, the most beautiful girl he could ever imagine. They feel the stirrings of first love as they share the same dream: to run together across the immense white sea that is the Salar de Uyuni, until they reach the end of the horizon.

Bolivia/Japan/US | 2008 | 102 minutes | Quechua with English subtitles

Director's Bio: Toshifumi Matsushita was born in 1950 in Kakogawa, Japan. After graduating from Doshisha University (Bachelor degree of Law), he worked at Shouchiku Kyoto Film Studio as assistant producer. In 1979, he came to the United States to study filmmaking at New York University. In 1981, he started his career as a producer at Entel Communication, Inc., a Japanese television company based in NYC. In 1987, he founded Dolphin Productions to make documentaries and TV programs.

Awards and credits include: Cinelatino Audience Choice Award for Best Picture – New York Latino International Film Festival.

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