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AMÉRICA TIENE ALMA

The soul of America

This remarkable film shows us the maturity, coherence and continuity on Carlos Azpurua’s cinematographic work which has its origins on his previous works “Yo hablo a Caracas” (I speak to Caracas) as well as on his illustrative masterpiece “Amazonas, El negocio de este mundo” (The Amazon: The most profitable business in the world), and ending with this deep thought on the Bolivian current political and social reality.

The main topic of the movie is a party –the Carnival of Oruro- which represents the maximum expression of happiness, diversity and collective reconciliation in Bolivia. Enemies and friends dance together a ring dance called corro de vida y muerte or dance of the life and death. As the party finishes, a new massacre could begin. But just as the indigenous president Evo Morales stated, they celebrate life, death and rebirth with hope. With the same hope, Latin America watches that dramatic dance, on the edge of a tragedy, with its soul hanging by a thread and with the eyes fixed on the changes yet to come.

Credits

Director ………… Carlos Azpúrua

Script………………. Carlos Azpúrua and Fernando Martinez

Executive producers…Adolfo López and Viviana Saavedra

Assistant directors...Paloma Azpúrua and Fernando Martinez

Camera and photography...... Pablo Barrios and Gustavo Soto

Location sound ………….. Luis Rojas

Preliminary cut………… Pablo Barrios

Imaging editor………… Jesús Rojas

Sound Editor ………… Gigio Diaz

Carlos Azpúrua, Director

Film-maker Carlos Azpúrua has experimented in the field of documentaries as well as on fiction movies; always intended to commit with social, ecological and indigenous struggle.

Amongst his most prominent documentaries we have “Caño Manamo” (Manamo Canal), “Amazonas, el negocio de este mundo” (The Amazon: The most profitable business in the world) and “Bosque silencioso” (The Silent Forrest); which show the author’s commitment and matters; also present in his fiction films “Disparen a Matar” (Shoot to Kill) and “Amaneció de Golpe” (Sudden and Violent Sunrise).

Carlos Azpúrua has been awarded numerous national and international contents, such as, Premio Nacional de Cine 2006 (National Movie Award 2006- Venezuela), Colón de Oro at the Huelva Festival (Spain) and the Premio Iberoamericano de cine documental, (Quito, Ecuador).

As a member of the Venezuelan Parliament, he was responsible for the legislative management of the National Law on Cinematography, approved in 1993.