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TOROBORO

The Name of the Plants

TOROBORO: THE NAME OF THE PLANTS follows a botanical expedition deep into Ecuador’s Amazon, where members of the Indigenous Huaorani community revisit memories of the violent colonization and displacement they endured during the 1960s oil boom. As elders recount the destruction of their ancestral world, environmental activists and scientists struggle to protect one of the last untouched forests where isolated Huaorani groups still live beyond the reach of modern society. Interweaving historical memory, ecological urgency, and Indigenous resistance, the film is a powerful reflection on cultural survival, environmental justice, and the ongoing fight to defend land, identity, and self-determination in the Amazon.

THE FILMMAKER

Manolo Sarmiento is an Ecuadorian filmmaker who currently works as a professor at the Film School of the University of the Arts in Guayaquil. He is a lawyer from the Catholic University of Ecuador, studied film at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, and has a master's degree in Visual Anthropology and Anthropological Documentary from FLACSO-Ecuador. He is a founding member and former director of the Cinememoria Corporation, the organizing entity of the EDOC IDFF.

FESTIVALS

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Canada
Sheffield DocFest, United Kingdom
DOK.fest München, Germany

TOROBORO: THE NAME OF THE PLANTS

Catalog # EPF16141 ● ISBN: 978-1-963201-81-9 ● UPC: 6-82086-16141-9 ● NTSC

74 Minutes ● Copyright 2024 ● Spanish, Wao Tededo, English Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles

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

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