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''Aluna'' is a 2012 feature-length
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sequel to the 1990
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documentary '' From the Heart of The World: Elder Brother's Warning''. The first documentary showed an ancient Kogi tribe civilisation (the Elder Brother) who emerge to offer their concern for people of the modern world (Younger Brother). Younger Brother is urged to change or suffer
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. After offering the warning, the
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retreat to their community hidden in the mountains of the
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, Colombia. In the second documentary, the Kogis have re-emerged, realising that the importance of their warning was not grasped. As well as warning Younger Brother, they have decided to share their understandings of how nature works in the belief that doing so will share their burden of healing the dying planet.


Content summary

Realising that their warning in 1990 was not fully grasped, the Kogis become more
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. Even though their civilisation has never used wheels or created writing, they diligently study film cameras and train their own indigenous
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. The Kogis ask
Alan Ereira Alan Ereira is a British author, historian and documentary filmmaker. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. Life Educated at Kilburn Grammar School, Ereira subsequently worked at the BBC on television an ...
, whom they allowed to film their 1990 message, to assist. The Kogi Mamos decide that there will be "no more secrets": They want to demonstrate their planetary healing sciences in front of the cameras to the modern world and show visible and measurable results. They also wish to teach other people how to conduct these sciences in order to heal the world. They speak with modern scientists in the belief that they have a different science to show them.


Kogi demonstration

To help convince the modern world of the importance preserving the planet, the Kogi demonstrate its
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. A small group of Kogis travel to
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to fetch 400 kilometres (250 miles) of
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, reportedly the longest ever made. Mama Shibulata, one of the Kogis Mamos in the group, visits the observatory at the
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where he meets Richard Ellis, the Steele Professor of Astronomy. Ellis is astounded by Shibulata's knowledge of both the
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and astronomical discoveries such as
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. After their return to Colombia with the gold thread, the Kogis conduct the demonstration. A group of leading modern scientists observe the results and find that the science of the Mamos may be at the 'cutting edge'
"They lay the gold thread from one river
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in Colombia to another in order to show how the destruction of river
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feeds back ''up'' the river in the end to destroy the source of the river. Showing the interconnectedness of everything on the earth, this was the key element in their task, the purpose of which was showing that the earth itself is a living body in which everything is interconnected, and damage to some of it is damage to all of it."—
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.


Participation at UN summits

The 1990 documentary From the Heart of The World: Elder Brother's Warning was shown at the
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in
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in 1992 and was seen to inspire delegates to take action. 'Aluna' was produced in time for another important UN environmental conference, the
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held at
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from 20–22 June 2012. Two Kogi Mamos were expected to attend the conference.


Production

Originally the budget was set at £270,000.
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got
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interested in the project and Parry met with the Kogi, who agreed to the project. With Parry involved, the BBC offered £180,000 and Indus Films offered a further £20,000. However, when Bruce Parry became 'committed to another project', the offer of funding from the BBC was withdrawn. Therefore,
Alan Ereira Alan Ereira is a British author, historian and documentary filmmaker. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. Life Educated at Kilburn Grammar School, Ereira subsequently worked at the BBC on television an ...
had to seek alternative funding. Some of this funding came from the British charity The Onaway Trust, which also helped fund Ereira's book on the Kogis,
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. The Kogis had their own indigenous film crew, enabling the film to include previously unrecorded holy sites and practices that other film crews had been prohibited from seeing. Throughout the collaboration, the Kogis exercised their autonomy while the film's
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,
Alan Ereira Alan Ereira is a British author, historian and documentary filmmaker. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. Life Educated at Kilburn Grammar School, Ereira subsequently worked at the BBC on television an ...
, looked forward to see what the indigenous crew had recorded. The Mamas took charge of what was going to be filmed and consulted Aluna through divinations. The collaboration between the indigenous crew and the European camera crews enabled
Alan Ereira Alan Ereira is a British author, historian and documentary filmmaker. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. Life Educated at Kilburn Grammar School, Ereira subsequently worked at the BBC on television an ...
to bring a camera operator and a
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to work with their indigenous counterparts in Colombia.


Participation in festivals

''Aluna'' was chosen to be shown at the 2012
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where it would have its
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.


References


External links

*''http://www.alunathemovie.com/'' Official website of the second and final Kogi Mamos documentary *''http://www.taironatrust.org'' Information about the Kogis in South America *
Brief video report
' 2011 video report by Alan Ereira after filming in Colombia *''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftFbCwJfs1I'' Official YouTube link * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aluna Documentary films about environmental issues Indigenous cinema in Latin America 2012 films 2012 documentary films Colombian documentary films British documentary films British independent films 2010s British films