THE PATAGONIAN CRUSADE (DOCUMENTARY)

Surrounded by the majestic sceneries of Argentinean Patagonia, a unique work is being developed... Its protagonists believe it is possible to strive for another world – a world in which we all have the same opportunities. Through Karmacine, we propose to document the crusade of a foundation that works day by day to improve the conditions of the rural inhabitants.

We will show the stories of both those who make this possible and those towards whom this work is directed – teachers who travel each week more than 100 Km. along the Andes mountain-chain in order that two Mapuche (Native Argentinean) brothers in their 60s can finish primary school; teachers and students of an agro-technical secondary school who work together in carpentry, bee-keeping and farming workshops as indispensable basic education for their future lives.

We want to show the whole and its parts: the Foundation, its goals, its ups and downs and its worthy accomplishments, the people, their dreams, their passions and their efforts. We will tell the moving stories of those who, although so far away, have been able to change the direction of their lives thanks to this crusade of solidarity.

SOUL TRAIN (DOCUMENTARY)

The “Soul Train,” an ambulatory hospital, has travelled throughout the most isolated regions of the Argentinean Andean Puna for the last 26 years while carrying out an admirable humanitarian task.

This task is essentially to offer health care services to the neediest of inhabitants and to carry out talks on preventive health care with these people and especially with the primary school teachers in order to obtain a lasting improvement in the health of these people.

This documentary provides the viewer with the wealth of its content and the incomparable beauty of the Puna, the north Argentinean Andean region, at more than 2.000 m. above sea level, a land of ancient indigenous peoples, of condors and llamas.

PERSISTENT WOMEN (DOCUMENTARY)

Abra Pampa, a village in the middle of the Puna of the northwestern Argentinean province of Jujuy, offers an arid landscape, adobe dwellings and the cultural heritage of the Colla people who produced their unique history.

Warmi Sayasjunco (Persistent Women in Quechua language) is an association that has achieved the inconceivable, the return to their communities of those who had had to leave for the city.

A group of Colla women, who started as weavers, today manage a pool of undertakings: an Internet café, a gas station, a restaurant, a chinchilla farm, a tannery, a warehouse and an exceptional banking system that uses confidence as the guarantee.