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Marcelina Cárdenas Sausa

"Llanthupi Munakuy/Loving Each Other in the Shadows" Llanthupi Munakuy/Loving Each Other in the Shadows
(2001, 47 min.) BOLIVIA
Director: Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua)
Produced by: CEFREC-CAIB
Actors: Aydeé Alvarez and Samuel Vedia Callamullo
In Quechua with English subtitles.

A village divided against itself sets the stage for a star-crossed love affair. This compelling fiction, one of the first from the Andes written and directed by a woman, is based on the oral tradition of the filmmaker's community, CK'ochas.

Image credit: Marcelina Cárdenas at the 2003 Native American Film and Video Festival selector's meeting - Photograph by Amalia Cordova, NMAI; Llanthupi Munakuy/Loving Each Other in the Shadows

Marcelina Cárdenas

CEFREC/Media in Bolivia

First Nations/First Features

2003 Native American Film and Video Festival

Eye of the Condor

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