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FILM :: Corazon del Cielo, Corazon de la Tierra | Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth

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Friday, October 02, 2015
7:00 pm
NC Latin American Film Festival

LOCATION: MANDELA AUDITORIUM, FEDEX GLOBAL EDUC CENTER, UNC=CHDir. Eric Black, Frauke Sandig / 98 min / Guatemala-MX, Germany / 2013Spanish and Maya w English subtitlesHEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH gives the Maya of today a voice, following six young Maya in Guatemala and Chiapas through their daily and ceremonial life, revealing their determination to resist the destruction of their culture and environment. As corporations go to the ends of the earth to extract all value, all resources from the land, they put forth a wholly indigenous perspective in their own words, without narration. Each story touches upon a facet of the current global crisis.Beautifully filmed over years, the intimate accounts of the protagonists interweave with images associated with the fragile beauty of nature and the creation myth of the Popol Vuh. Ruins of a former Mayan civilization stand in the background as harbingers of our own possible fate. The Maya, like many indigenous people, believe they are the guardians of the Earth. Their cosmovision, in which all life is sacred and interconnected, presents a deeply compelling alternative to the prevailing worldview.