Cine junto al pueblo y video indígena: ¿Continuidades o rupturas?
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2025
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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© 2025 Universidad Andres Bello. All rights reserved.In 1989, Jorge Sanjinés premiered The Secret Nation, considered by many to be the masterpiece of his “cinema with the people”. In that same year, Jorge Sanjinés’ son, Iván Sanjinés, founded the Centro de Formación y Realización Cinematográfica Boliviano (CEFREC), which would later coordinate the Plan Nacional de Comunicación Audiovisual Indígena, an alliance of five peasant and indigenous confederations that seeks to train indigenous people in film and video making. This article proposes to examine the way in which both projects have strived to make a participatory cinema committed to the reality of indigenous peoples at different moments in Bolivian history. Differences between both projects are explored, especially those related to the use of the fictional film conventions that Jorge Sanjinés rejected.
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CEFREC, cinema with the people, indigenous film, Jorge Sanjinés, video