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Un Mundo Film Festival
in the Village of El Pital
in the Village of El Pital
On October 17, 18 and 19, 2002, the Un Mundo organization presented a rural "Cinema Campesino Film Festival" in the village of El Pital, in the Cangrejal river valley (half an hour from La Ceiba, Honduras). The festival used Latin American films and dialogue to celebrate the beautiful yet difficult life of the Campesino. People were bused in or walked to the festival from the remote neighboring villages of Urraco, Toncontin, Yaruca, Rio Viejo and La Muralla.
Film Festival under the stars each night.
The festival purpose was threefold:
- A fundraiser to purchase a used bus to transport students at the local high school.
- An exercise for the local villages in carrying out a cooperative community event.
- A forum for public dialog about local problems and social issues.
The renowned Bethel High School Marching Band kicked off the event. | Local singers and dancers performed during the three nights of the festival. |
Brisk sales of food and drink by local villagers were part of the fund-raising activities, and high school students also solicited donations from festival participants. Nearly all the equipment used to produce this first Film Festival were donated by sponsors, including the sound system, lights, rain shelters, camera and movie projection equipment.
Cartoon videos and movies shown in the local high school kept the youngsters entertained. | Each night, dolls and other toys were given to the village kids attending the festival. |
Festival films came from Cuba, Argentina, and Honduras. The Last Supper depicted the inner turmoil of slaves asserting their independence at a Dominican Republic sugar plantation in the 19th century. The Hour of the Furnaces was a cold, hard examination of the causes and effects of underdevelopment in Latin America. Hurricane Mitch focused on the debilitating external debt exposed by this natural phenomena, while A Place in the World was a sweet story of the triumph and tribulations of a father and son, as the former overcomes resistance while starting a cooperative in his native village and the latter tries to teach his female companion how to read.