"Kumanday: Way of the People" Documentary

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit Modern Spirit, Inc., as we support Cultural Tras La Huella (CTH). CTH is a Colombian-based non-profit organization focused on promoting cultural education in support of traditional/indigenous knowledge among native, rural and urban peoples. CTH develops groundbreaking media and content to promote their goals and related artistic processes.

 

This fundraiser will support the completion of the powerful documentary, Kumanday: Way of the People. Cultural Tras La Huella has been working on this film project for several years and completed filming in 2021. Initial screenings have been very well-received. We are now raising money to complete post-production for the film's international release this July.

 

Kumanday: Way of the People

In a current social context where indigenous people face an irrepressible modernity, that endangers ancestral memory and the global environment, this documentary portrays an unprecedented meeting of 6 indigenous Colombian communities, who, despite all of the adversity, have initiated an intercultural exchange through a formal mutual agreement. They have formed the Council of Ancestral Spiritual Authorities of Colombia (CAAENOCANM). These communities are now working together to preserve and strengthen native language, cosmology and ancestral traditions, and in doing so, they offer wisdom and inspiration to the world.

 

CAAENOCANM was formed in 2016. In 2017, the Chilean filmmaker Jordi Goya (co-founder of CTH) joined the cause as a volunteer, registering and documenting the processes and agreements made by the council of elders. Together with indigenous healer Xochi Bucuru (director of CTH), guided closely by some of the council's elders, including Arhuaco elder Mamo Lorenzo Izquierdo, Misak elder Ignacio Morales, Sikuani elder Clemente Gaitan and Pasto elder Ramiro Estacio, they came up with the idea for this documentary, a film that could share and make visible the purpose of the council, as well as facilitate interaction between the elders and their communities (amidst the very difficult financial and social conditions in which Colombia finds itself currently).

 

Learn more about the film here:

Kumanday Cultural Tras La Huella

 

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