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Kaypimi Kanchik: The Politics of Memory in the Cinema of RUPAI and the New Film Shunkuwan
In the short film Warmikuna, kaypimi kanchik (2025), made by the Kichwa-Zapotec filmmaker Frida Muenala, we witness the central role of Kichwa women during the demonstrations that lamented the death of the Indigenous leader Efraín Fueres, reclaiming justice for his death and for the disappearances, arrests and hostilities by the Ecuadorean state against hundreds of…
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“RUPAI is researching and wants to show the world who we are, what we are, our stories, what we are capable of. Our stories also deserved to be heard.” Interview with David Gramal, 26 July 2024.
David Gramal is a graphic designer and owner of the GRAMA creative design studio. Since 2011, he has also participated in RUPAI productions and other Kichwa film projects, mainly as an actor. One of his most recent performances is as one of the Indigenous leaders in the latest feature film by Alberto Muenala and RUPAI Productions,…
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“The greater variety of plants and flowers there are in the forest, the more beautiful it is”. Interview with Segundo Fuérez, 28 July 2024.
Segundo Fuérez is a Kichwa filmmaker and animator from the community of Yambiro. In his film production, he has always worked experimentally, mixing genres and creating an intimate working environment based on family ties. He graduated as a director of photography for film and television at INCINE after having already made several short films as…
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