Ancient Clues – Belize Blood Chambers
Canada
48 mins., Color
TV series, 2004
Language: English
Director: Lionel Goddard

What drove the ancient Maya to commit ritual sacrifice? What events led them to such desperate attempts to the gods? And how is this all connected to the eventual collapse of their once magnificent civilization? Archaeologists Dr. Jaime Awe and Sherry Gibbs go deep under ground to discover the secrets of the Belize blood chambers.
 

Coca And The Congressman USA/Bolivia 46 min., Color Documentary, 2003 Language: English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles RATED: G Director: Jon Alpert

This film documents the fight of Congressman Evo Morales, a former coca farmer from indigenous peasant roots, as he tries to expand the amount of coca that can be legally grown by farmers. It highlights the pitfalls of a drug-based economy and the cocaleros’difficulty in finding suitable replacement crops to support their peasant families as they are pitted against the Bolivian military’s ambitious coca eradication program. This prescient documentary predicted the ensuing resignation of the President, rise of the indigenous people and subsequent revolution and illuminates the shifting balance of power that’s underway in Bolivia – and spreading across Latin America.
 

The Right and The Wrong Trinidad and Tobago 100 min., Color Historical Drama, 1969 Language: English RATED: 16 Producer /Writer / Director: Mickey Nivelli (aka Harbance Kumar)

THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG was produced in Trinidad in 1969 and is credited as being the first English Caribbean feature-length film. Caribbean audiences clamoring for a glimpse at the region’s first locally-produced film, perhaps coupled with its strong anti-colonial message, had cinema-goers turning out in droves and breaking box-office records in places like Suriname and Guyana. The film even won a gold medal at the Atlanta Film Festival.

The film features the unification of oppressed Blacks and Indians against the ruling British. Malcolm, is a sadistic white plantation owner who kills and mistreats the Blacks and Indians who slave for him. Shyam and Jojo are slaves who believe in nonviolence and try to convince their more rebellious slave brothers that it is the way to change their situation. Forced to flee across the river after being threatened by the plantation master, the two return, overpower Malcolm and liberate the other slaves. Fate accommodates them in dealing a crucial blow to Malcolm.
 

Sahara Marathon Spain 56 min. Color Documentary, 2003 Language: English Writers /Directors: Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi

What change can sport bring? Hopefully, a lot. Since the end of the Spanish colony in Morocco 27 years ago, the Saharawi people have been forced to relocate to refugee camps in the Western Sahara. With the media attention they garner, the Sahara marathons as they passi by the wilayas which make up the camps, focus the world’s attention on the plight of the Saharawi people.
 

Walking To School Camino a la Escuela Peru 19 min. Color Educational Documentary, 2004 Language: Spanish w/ English Subtitles Writer / Director: Humberto Saco

This film documents the harsh living conditions and poor state of public education in the cold Peruvian highlands (over 4000 meters above sea level) for a female school teacher and her students. To get to school each day, these children risk their lives crossing the mountains in the snow while the teacher hitchhikes when the bus breaks down.