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Tinkuy: The Meeting of Worlds

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Producer(s)	Monte Amador, Katherine Majzoub, Fredy Flores Machacca, Asociacion ANDES
Director(s)	Katherine Majzoub
Release Date	2007
Work In Progress	n
Runtime	26 min
Youth Media	n
Educational Materials	Yes

Film Description

Created in the stunning Vilcanota Range of the Southern Andes of Peru, ‘Tinkuy’ brings us to a world in the process of emerging from the clouds. Atop craggy passes and in valleys still free from roads, alpacas outnumber people, condors carry good fortune on enormous wings, and families subsist on potatoes they collectively coax from vertical mountain slopes. Within this landscape is the Community of Q’eros, comprised of five indigenous communities balanced on the edge of the sierra and the fertile jungle below. From their perch at 14,000 feet, the Q’eros believe that they are the last existing population directly descended from the Incas, attributing their survival of the Spanish Conquest to protection provided by their sacred mountains, the Apus.

When the Q’eros speak of the outside invasions today, however, they note that they are losing the power to call upon the Apus as their ancestors did. Instead, young Q’eros are looking to each other to advocate for their community and stop the bulldozers, the miners, and the helicopters full of bioprospectors. They seek protection from these modern invasions by increasing community organization and engaging with outside institutions through petitions and meetings. The arrival of the video camera, and eventually the knowledge to be able to use it independently, has opened broad avenues of access for their activism. Through online distribution, they hope that an international reach will make the camera a tool of political representation, access, and a means of recruiting support from sympathetic and powerful audiences on a global scale.

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Last Updated On:	May 22, 2012

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