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July 2005
 Patricio
Luna (Aymara) has been a cultural activist in highland
Bolivia for more than twenty years. His documentaries and short
fictions focusing on indigenous life, often produced in the Aymara
language, have been screened at film festivals in Latin America,
Europe and the United States. He is a founding member of the Centro
de Educación y Comunicación Aymará Saphi
Aru, a community organization that is part of the award-winning
Coordinadora Audiovisual Indigena Originaria de Bolivia (CAIB), which allows Bolivia’s thirty-six indigenous peoples to express themselves through grass-roots video production. Luna
has directed both documentary and fiction, including works on
traditional democracy, llama ranching, ethnic discrimination,
and Native legends. Luna was born in the province of Pacajes in
the Bolivian Altiplano.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Patricio Luna - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI
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