This workshop is aimed at documentary filmmakers of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. It is made possible thanks to the collaboration between the Sundance Documentary Film Program and Conecta.
The tutors are Bruni Burres, senior consultant for the US program, and Paola Castillo, director of the Chilean Documentary Corporation.
The projects selected for the Conecta con tus Raíces (Connect with your Roots) workshop section are:
Chemamüll
Country: Chile and Germany
Dir: Fernanda Calhueque & Sophia Boddenberg
Prod: Sophia Boddenberg
Storyline: A Mapuche anthropologist and a German ethnologist embark, from opposite sides of the world, on a quest to trace the footsteps of a heritage stolen more than a century ago. Together, they confront the open wounds of colonial history and the possibility of healing through dialogue.
The Country That We Were
Country: Mexico, United States, Dominican Republic y Ukraine
Dir: Tatiana García Altagracia
Prod: Emiliano Altuna Fistolera y Pedro G. García
Storyline: Between Mexico, New York, the Dominican Republic, and Kyiv, a daughter searches for traces of her mother: a Black woman, scientist, and migrant. Through fragments, letters, and conflicting voices, she explores silence, identity, and emotional education in Blackness as inheritance and survival.
On Ogun’s Railroad
Country: Brazil
Dir: Safira Moreira and Lucas Marques
Prod: Alana Silveira
Storyline: While creating a god-artifact, blacksmith José Adário dos Santos recreates, through memory and ancestry, his own artistic and religious trajectory.
Gil’s Passage
Country: Brazil
Dir: Isaac Donato
Prod: Marília Cunha
Storyline: Gilmar, a Black Brazilian classical ballet dancer, prepares for his final performance after more than thirty years training young talents at the Bolshoi Ballet. But his story transcends the stage: he is a spiritual leader in an Afro-Brazilian religion. On the night of his farewell, another, older and sacred dance unveils a sacred secret.
Taki Onqoy
Country: Peru
Dir: Alex Cruz Cusihuamán
Prod: Diego Sarmiento Pagán
Storyline: Through the gaze of five Quechua elders, the persistence of racism, colonial legacy, state repression, and extractivism over their territories in Peru is exposed. Their lives bear witness to a fading era of resistance, while their stories weave the wounds of the past into the ongoing struggles of new generations.
About Conecta
Conecta is an international documentary industry event aimed at Latin American producers and filmmakers with documentary projects in development, editing, post-production, or completed but not yet premiered.
The meeting brings together national and international industry professionals, including representatives from funds, markets, and festivals; distributors, sales agents, exhibitors; as well as platform and television programmers, and producers.
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