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GUAÑUNA

A Father's Fight for Justice

After police wrongfully arrested Paúl Guañuna, his body was found the next day at the bottom of a ravine. Guañuna follows a father's relentless fight for justice, uniting youth and a wounded community to confront racism, police brutality, and impunity in Ecuador.

THE FILMMAKER

David Lasso is passionate about nature and the cultural relationships we have with it. His work focuses on ancestral knowledge of Indigenous and Afro-descendant cultures, gender, childhood, youth, human rights, and agroecology. In academia, his creative work focuses on developing projects on sustainability that combine film and permaculture. David holds a degree in Social Communication, a Master’s in Cultural Studies, a Diploma in Documentary Film, and training in photography, permaculture, and meditation.

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Audience Award – Encounters of the Other Cinema (EDOC), Ecuador
#DocsConnect Taskovski Mentoring Award – Movies that Matter Festival, Netherlands
Audience Award – KINOLATINO Latin Film Festival of Belgium, Belgium
Best Documentary Feature & Audience Award – Int’l Independent Film Festival of Jalisco, Mexico
Best Documentary Feature – Kunturñawi Ecuadorian Film Festival, Ecuador
International Festival of Human Rights Films (FICDH), Argentina
Bolivia Human Rights Film Festival, Bolivia
Franco-Andean Documentary Contest (Documenta), Venezuela
Barcelona Indie Awards, Spain
Trieste Latin American Film Festival, Italy
Ecuadorian Film Week in Paris, France
Cine Latino Film Festival, US

GUAÑUNA: A FATHER'S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

Catalog # EPF16094 ● ISBN: 978-1-963201-34-5 ● UPC: 6-82086-16094-8 ● NTSC

74 Minutes ● Copyright 2022 ● Spanish, English Subtitles

For purchase orders, to book screenings and for other inquiries, please contact:
Larry Rattner - larry@epfmedia.com

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