The Chocalate Farmer
Directed by Rohan Fernando
2011, Canada, 70 mins.
The appeal of The Chocolate Farmer isn’t broad, but it certainly straddles a few niches. The eponymous farmer, Eladio Pop, is a Mayan in southern Belize who farms cacao in a plot of jungle land. One part lament for the past, one part struggle to preserve cultural values in a changing world, and one part ode to nature, The Chocolate Farmer is a film specifically for the activist crowd.
The Mayan side of this film is something like an indigenous rights manifesto. It covers the Mayan’s relation with their ancestors, their current economic and legal status, and their struggles with the state to simultaneously provide better economic assistance and protect their way of life. This is depressingly familiar territory in most indigenous people’s documentaries – quietly observed injustice.
The ecological side of this film is a bit more surprising.
Directed by Rohan Fernando
2011, Canada, 70 mins.
The appeal of The Chocolate Farmer isn’t broad, but it certainly straddles a few niches. The eponymous farmer, Eladio Pop, is a Mayan in southern Belize who farms cacao in a plot of jungle land. One part lament for the past, one part struggle to preserve cultural values in a changing world, and one part ode to nature, The Chocolate Farmer is a film specifically for the activist crowd.
The Mayan side of this film is something like an indigenous rights manifesto. It covers the Mayan’s relation with their ancestors, their current economic and legal status, and their struggles with the state to simultaneously provide better economic assistance and protect their way of life. This is depressingly familiar territory in most indigenous people’s documentaries – quietly observed injustice.
The ecological side of this film is a bit more surprising.
- 4/21/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
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