Vision Indigena
9 minutes, 2009
In Spanish
Directed by Stephen Ferry ’78
Screening: Sunday, 1:45 p.m.
A tragic-comic documentary made by a group of indigenous
filmmakers about a dam being built on their ancestral land, where the engineers
of the dam blew up one of their sacred sites which they had used to maintain
the natural equilibrium of the area since "the beginning of the
world" in their terms.
Filmmaker Bio:
After graduating from Brown University with a BA in history, Stephen Ferry '78
joined the GAMMA photo agency first in NYC and then in Paris. Since the
late 1980’s, he has traveled to dozens of countries, covering social
and political change, human rights, and the environment. He has worked
extensively in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa,
covering such issues as the fall of Communism, the rise of radical
Islam, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A fluent Spanish speaker, Stephen has developed a deep understanding of
Latin American culture, society and politics over 20 years of covering
the region. He currently is based in Bogotá and dedicated to long-term
coverage of Colombia’s civil war.Stephen’s work has received numerous prizes and honors, including two
World Press photo awards, and many prizes in the Photo of the Year and
Best of Photojournalism contests. He has received grants and
fellowships from the National Geographic Expeditions Council, the
Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, the Fund for Investigative
Journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Howard Chapnick Fund,
and the Knight International Press Fellowship. Stephen is an active teacher of documentary practice as a member of the
faculty of the Fundacion para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano
(FNPI), in Colombia, and the International Center of Photography in
NYC. He also regularly works as a photographic consultant to Latin
American newspapers.
