The Persian Gulf holds many attractions for the intrepid traveler, but I’ve already made up my mind: for a media junkie, no visit to Qatar can be complete without a trip to the Al Jazeera TV channel headquarters in downtown Doha. Full story

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

Growth is the plan – and the goal is production capacity of 7 million fine ounces of gold (currently at $ 1,500 per ounce) by 2017 at the latest. Production is now at about 5 million ounces and the projected increase should mainly occur in Latin America, in Peru and Surinam. The sensitive natural balance 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

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

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

The villagers’ courageous struggle for health care and justice inspired my colleague Ernesto Cabellos and I to make the documentary ‘Choropampa, The Price of Gold’. The film has been broadcast in the United States, Canada, Burma, Peru and several other Latin American countries. It has screened at over 50 film festivals on 5 continents and won 10 international awards. Yet despite Continue Reading

We, the FDCL, are film partners at realeyz.tv for two documentary films about Peru, Choropampa- The Price of Gold and Tambogrande - Mangos, Murder, Mining. We’re going to break the realeyz.tv blog guidelines a little by writing a somewhat longer article than usual as our first post. We’re not going to bore but we think Continue Reading

Ernesto has produced short documentaries for BBC World, TVE, WDR, WETV Canada and Peruvian television. Along the way he hasadded camera, edition and direction to his professional repertoire and he is now president of Guarango.
In 2002 Ernesto had his directorial debut with, a feature length documentary that he also produced, filmed and edited with Stephanie Continue Reading