Lucha y resistencia: el documental indígena ecuatoriano en la década 2010-2020

Abstract

The demand of the Ecuadorian indigenous peoples has become a constant struggle to find new spaces that allow them to communicate without intermediaries. Documentary cinema has thus been instituted as an alternative means of communication that makes it possible to make known the reality of the indigenous peoples through audiovisual creativity. The category of indigenous documentary cinema is considered important for the claim of the country ' s indigenous peoples and nationalities in their search for cultural identity, so that the documentary becomes an important entity for recording the history, customs, rituals and betrayals of a people. In the study period from 2010 to 2020, new young indigenous filmmakers appear who, thanks to their training in the field of cinema and communication, have contributed to the search for their identity by creating documentaries that address issues of struggle and resistance, cultural vindication, environmental protection, human rights and political participation. In addition, the process of creating a vision from decolonization in documentaries dealing with indigenous issues is based on the appropriation of documentary cinema by filmmakers who are a direct part of history, young people belonging to the Kichwa communities. Now the lives of indigenous people are no longer told from outside, now they are the ones who tell their own life story along the way of time in documentaries