A view of the city of Doha

 Posted by Stephanie Boyd
It feels like I’ve won the lottery. A documentary I made about Peruvian farmers standing up to US and British-owned mining companies has been selected for the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Doha, Qatar. Suddenly I find myself far from my Andean mountain home Continue Reading

 
… in Chorolque. That’s the location of the film Daughter of Chorolque, which the FDCL sponsors with a film partnership on realeyz.tv. The film tells the story – in fascinating and at times breathtaking images - of the difficult lives of the women who earn their living for themselves and their children in the mines Continue Reading

On this day March 31 in the year 2001, Godofredo García Bacas was killed.The truth behind his murder has not been adequately explained to this day.  But that hasn’t stopped the resistance against the Canadian mining company Manhattan and the Peruvian state institutions that are party to the problems. That the resistance goes on is Continue Reading

 
… once again, the Movie that Matters Film Festivaltook place again this year in Den Haag - a city in Holland that is also the headquarters of important international tribunals and courts. The main section of the film festival  A Matter of Act highlights the dangerous and important work by human rights advocates from around Continue Reading

Auditorium Arditi, Geneva

  An audience of nearly 600 watched The Devil Operation at the Auditorium Arditi in Genf at the closing festivities of the FIFDH film festival.  Stephanie Boyd und Marco Arana can be seen here in the picture on the left as they deliver a thank you speech. Their film was awarded a ‘Special Mention’ Continue Reading

So is Europe. Peru, however, is booming. What’s that mean? Go to Perú … while it’s still easy!

Father Marco Arana (pictured here with Bianca Jagger), the Catholic priest who supports indigenous Peruvians in protecting their eco-system in opposition to foreign mining companies, received the Cinema for Peace Human Rights Award.
Arana and the surveillance operation and intimidation campaign mounted against him are the subjects of Stephanie Boyd’s (CHOROPAMPA, TAMBOGRANDE, co-directed with Ernesto Cabellos) Continue Reading

 
 
I saw the movie Zertifikat Deutsch in the Arsenal cinema at the begining of the film festival One World Berlin last Thursday. It reminded me that I had taken this picture during my last German courses at the Volkshochschule. The mood was rather relaxed. It was like a small vacation camp. There I met a Continue Reading

News from Stephanie Boyd (director of The Devil Operation). ” FESTIVAL WIN! Our first prize… well, sort of. Last night on the 10-hour bus from Cusco to Arequipa, Fabricio Deza, the film’s editor, won the GRAND PRIZE at Bingo.
Fabricio was called to the back of the bus and urged to make a pronouncement over the Continue Reading

At Hot Docs in Toronto, North America’s largest documentary festival, The Devil Operation received two standing ovations at sold-out screenings. Each presentation had over 300 people in attendance and the festival invited Father Marco to present the film. This August the film premiered in Asia at Korea’s prestigious EIDF festival, held by the country’s public Continue Reading