La Bonga

Përshkrimi

Më 5 prill 2001, menjëherë pas një masakre aty pranë në duart e paraushtarakëve të krahut të djathtë, dy të panjohur me kapuç hynë në qytetin bujqësor të La Bongas dhe dorëzuan një letër. Shënimi akuzonte qytetin se bashkëndjente me FARC, grupi më i madh gueril në Kolumbi. Njerëzve iu dhanë 48 orë kohë për t'u larguar ose për t'u larguar me forcë. Dhe kështu, e gjithë La Bonga – 150 familje – iku po atë ditë. Shumica u zhvendosën në qytetet e afërta që janë secila 3 orë në këmbë larg shtëpive të tyre të mëparshme. Me kalimin e kohës, xhungla që rrethonte qytetin e tyre e gëlltiti atë të tërin. Ka pak më shumë se kujtime; një brez i tërë di për vendlindjen e tyre vetëm përmes historive të prindërve dhe gjyshërve të tyre. Shumë e shohin La Bongan si një tokë mitike që është zhdukur.

Biografia e Regjisorëve

Sebastián Pinzón Silva is a Colombian documentary filmmaker. He studied film and television at the Savannah College of Art and Design and he has a master's degree in documentary media from Northwestern University in Chicago. His directorial work has been screened at festivals such as Locarno, MoMA Doc Fortnight, and New Directors / New Films. His short Palenque won Best Latin American short in FICValdivia in 2017. His film La Bonga, co-directed with Canela Reyes, received the Loridan-Ivens prize for the best first feature film at Cinéma Du Réel in 2023 and the award for best documentary at Cinélatino in Toulouse. Sebastián worked as an assistant editor for MINDING THE GAP (2019 Oscar Nominee). He has since worked as editor and cinematographer for productions for National Geographic, Honnold Foundation, and the Truth Commission of Colombia. Sebastián was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in the United States by Filmmaker Magazine in 2019. He is co-founder of Jarana Cine, SITE Collective, and Video Consortium Colombia, a global network of support and connection between documentary filmmakers.

With a background in anthropology and literature, Canela Reyes has worked as a director, screenwriter, and researcher on films and community development projects around Colombia. She worked as a co-writer, researcher, and co-producer on the films Lapü (Sundance, Berlinale 2019), and “Carropasajero” (World Cinema Fund, FDC). The projects she has worked on have also been exhibited at festivals such as CPH:DOX, DocsBarcelona, Cinelatino, FICCI, Documenta Madrid, DOKer Russia, and Thessaloniki DF, among others. Her first feature film as a director, La Bonga, co-directed with Sebastián Pinzón Silva, received the Loridan-Ivens prize for the best opera prima at Cinéma Du Réel in 2023 and the Best Documentary award at Cinélatino in Toulouse. She co-directed Omí VR, a virtual reality experience around Afro-Colombian santería, and she took part in the Afro Religious Systems Group for three years. She worked as a documentary filmmaker at the Gaia Amazon Foundation and the Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung in Colombia. She is co-founder of the production company Jarana Cine, and of Video Consortium Colombia, a global network of support and connection between filmmakers.