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

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

The FDCL is an information and communication center for people and groups who want to learn more about Latin America or get involved with Latin America-related issues. The FDCL has been in existence since 1974 and is well-known far beyond the borders of Berlin. The online streams are available at all times and are accessible 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