October 1997
Alberto Muenala is a filmmaker
from the Quichua community of Otavalo, Ecuador. He is a graduate
of CUEC (Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos) of the National
Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and has directed
a number of documentary and dramatic videos on subjects important
to indigenous communities in Latin America. His most recent fiction,
Mashikuna/Comrades, about the lives of two Native boys
who face racism and oppression at an early age and become leaders
of indigenous rights movements, was premiered at the 1995 Native
American Film and Video Festival in New York City and was screened
at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996. He is currently working
on a fictional reconstruction of the life of 16th-century indigenous
leader Atalhualpa and the resistance movement in colonial Ecuador.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Alberto
Muenala - photograph by Katherine Fogden, NMAI
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