Horror in the Andes.
Ayacuchan Cinema in-the-making
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the art of cinema to narrate their community while creating it. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, Horror in the Andes pays testament to the craft of filmmaking and its community. The film is part of a broader post-doctoral project on creativity, uncertainty and artistic perseverance in the Peruvian Andes seeking to reframe cinema-making in Ayacucho.
34′ (2019)
Director: Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Producer: Andy Lawrence and AllRitesReversed, Filmmaking4Fieldwork, University of Bern
Distributor: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)
Funding: Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film granted by the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Screenings:The Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS) – Workshop “Héroes y pueblos” / “Heroes and the people” University of Bern [December 2018], RAI film festival – official selection (special interest) **COMMENDATION** for Richard Werbner Award [March 2019], Vision du Reel – Media Library Selection [April 2019], South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Chile [June 2019], IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress “World Solidarities” audio-visual programme in Poznan, Poland [August 2019], Oaxaca Film festival [October 2019], Inshort Film festival/Lagos, [November 2019], Ethnografische Filmtage Bremen [November 2019], World Festival Corrientes [November 2019, **WINNER** best documentary short], SVA Film and Media Festival Vancouver CA [November 2019, award of best documentary short], Athens Ethnographic Film Festival [December 2019], Medellin International Film Festival [February 2020, **WINNER** best documentary short], LASA International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico [May 2020], 2Rivers Film Festival on Cross Cultural Documentary, Koblenz Germany [June 2020], Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic & Historical Film Festival, Cyprus [July/August 2020], Collected Voices Film Festival 2020, Chicago US [October, 2020, **COMMENDATION**], Cine Tornado Festival 2020, Curitiba, Brazil [November 2020], The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival, Eugene, Oregon, US [May 2021], Ethnokino Kino in der Reitschule [Jan 2023], Newcastle Science Week, AUS [Sept 2023]