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A PRODUCTION BY

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VALLES DE ALTURA,
ANDES OF NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINA.

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APRIL, 2019. 4:00 HOURS.
3000 METERS HIGH.

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SILVINA VELÁZQUEZ
BEGINS A 20-HOUR JOURNEY ON FOOT

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TO THE MOST ISOLATED
ANDEAN SCHOOL IN JUJUY,

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WHERE SHE WORKS AS A PRINCIPAL.

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SHE IS JOINED
BY A TEAM OF MOBILE CINEMA

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WHO ASPIRES TO TAKE MOVIES
TO THE SCHOOL FOR THE FIRST TIME.

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THEY WALK WITH THE CONVICTION

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THAT CINEMA IS A JOURNEY
THAT TRANSFORMS US AS A SOCIETY.

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EXPERIENCING THAT IS A RIGHT.

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Pachita, protect us on our journey.

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May it all turn out OK.
May we reach a safe harbor.

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When you have a calling,

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and you set a mission for yourself,
a vision, what you desire,

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then it´s not a difficulty
or a sacrifice, right?

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You do it good-heartedly
and because your calling is education,

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to offer a better education
in these inhospitable places.

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THE ANDEAN SCREEN

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It doesn’t burn, right?

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Help yourselves.

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[RADIO] Hi Yaquispampa!

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We remind you that this week
the Mobile Cinema will arrive to Valles de Altura

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to screen some movies
at the Yaquispampa school.

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Now, we will listen to the message
that Asunción Rodríguez,

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head of Jujuy Mobile Cinema,
left for us a couple of days ago.

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Hello there, how are you?

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I wanted to let you know
we will be in Yaquispampa.

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We are coming from Tilcara on foot
so we can get to the school for the first time.

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3400 METERS HIGH.
6 HOURS ON FOOT.

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This place is located 85km away
from the Tilcara department,

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which is the closest town,

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and you can get there on foot
or riding in for 14 to 16 hours,

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SILVINA VELÁZQUEZ
PRINCIPAL AT YAQUISPAMPA SCHOOL

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as I said, on a bridleway.

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One must have a very good knowledge
of the way, you know?

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And a very good physical training.

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Not only physical but also spiritual,
mental, against all odds.

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Left!

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Right!

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Right!

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Oh! Josi, second!

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Right!

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Rural schools have an annex housing.

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The children are housed there
because they travel long distances

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and the activities of their parents,
whether it’s agriculture or stockbreeding,

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make it impossible for them
to go back home.

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The child comes into the school
and the father knows when he has to pick him up.

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The Mobile Cinema
intends to spread Argentinian cinema

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and especially local cinema.

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We also often include
Latin American movies.

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This program was born 20 years ago,
when movie theaters around the country were closed

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ASUNCIÓN RODRÍGUEZ
HEAD OF THE JUJUY MOBILE CINEMA

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and, to alleviate this situation,
mobile cinemas were created

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based on the examples
of activities done in Cuba and Russia.

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My dad worked as a poll guard at Caspalá
whenever elections were held.

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And my dad would say,
“I’m going to guard the poll and I will be back”.

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ENRIQUE HERNÁNDEZ
TECHNICIAN AT JUJUY MOBILE CINEMA

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And when he would come back,
he would always bring me a present.

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Always.

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And that’s where the idea
of “Film on Foot” came from.

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I asked my dad: “Could I take a film equipment,
like a projector and a screen?”

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He was more experienced than me.

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And he said yes.
And that’s where it all began.

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3600 METERS HIGH
8-HOUR WALK

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We got to know
the Mobile Cinema at Alonso.

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They were very interested
and said they would come to the school.

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I have been working as a teacher
for 30 years now.

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And more than 15 years walking.

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Usually, I walk this path to Yaquispampa
on my own, without bridle.

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I love what I do and I continue studying
and furthering my skills.

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And once I retire,
I will continue studying.

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I have always been smart.

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I wanted to serve in the military
but my father wouldn’t let me, he didn’t like that.

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I couldn´t get into the military.
So, I had to start teaching.

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4000 METERS HIGH
10 HOURS ON FOOT

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Let´s take a pill so we can move forward.

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What is it?

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It´s for altitude.

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Oh!

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The coca has dried out.

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U-huh!

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The cold.

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They had a little bit of a headache,

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and low pressure,

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but nothing more than that.

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Fatigue, that´s it.

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OK, alright. Thank you, doctor.

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Thank you.
Goodbye, see you later.

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This is so crazy!

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I´m sweating like crazy,
but I can feel the cold.

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Oh, this is really far away, right?

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Yes, brother, very far away.

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It is 85km.

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So, we have to cross those two valleys,
those two streams

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and then, back there,
must be the woods.

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And God knows where
the house shelter is.

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Look up.

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I think God puts us in this life
with a mission, right?

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A mission to accomplish something,
with love, with a strong calling

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and that is why you get to these places,
you know?

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Center!

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Center, now!

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Center!
Center, now!

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There you go, rock yourself.

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We are four hours late, give or take.

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But there is a shelter two hours away.

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The problem with staying there
is that maybe the shelter won´t be open.

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And if it is not open,
we won´t have anything to cook

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and the truth is,
we won´t be able to take it.

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No...

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Because with one piece of candy...

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No, no.

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You won´t be to stick it out.

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We can´t go 12 hours with eating any food.

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Let´s get there and see, maybe it is open.

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Yes, that´s it. Let´s get there and see.

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Maybe it is open.

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That would be great.

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Sure. Let´s get there and see.

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One always learns.
You have to learn to solve that situation.

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We are far away, no one is going to come
and solve this for us, you know?

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You deal with the difficulties,

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because if you don´t face them,
you wouldn´t come to the hills.

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Why would you come here?

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Because you know you are
between life and death.

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The dogs are coming out.

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4200 METERS HIGH
13 HOURS ON FOOT

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There it is, look at Ro!

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There is the doggy.

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Buddy, buddy, buddy!

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I will give you some bread.

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Here are the kids, look.

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Mr. Mateo!

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Mr. Mateo!

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Mr. Mateo!

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He must be coming because it is strange
he left the dogs and the door open.

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Where are your owners?

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Come here, come here. Come!

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Mr. Héctor, he’s not here.

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Well, he must be here but,
Mr. Mateo must be here.

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Mr. Mateo is coming.

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He wouldn´t have left
the door open and all of this.

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My feet are shaking.

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We will rest a little bit here.
It´s not good to keep on walking anymore.

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Yes. This is the shelter?

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No, this is Mr. Mateo´s house.
Going up to the shelter would be a lot.

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And where is Mr. Mateo?

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Here come the two of them.

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Oh, good! Great!
We can rest here.

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We can rest here.

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At least have some tea
and warm up our bellies.

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Yes.

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They are very kind.

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We heard you from the tent.

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Huh?

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Yes, last night.

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What I was praying for?

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All the while.
All along, it was the dogs.

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Yes, my heart stopped. It was me.

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Take out this bag, okay?

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DAY 2 3000 METERS HIGH
15 HOURS ON FOOT

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We are here!

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We are here, there´s the firewood!

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That´s where the kids would go out!

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DAY 2 3000 METERS HIGH
20 HOURS ON FOOT

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We were worried.

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Welcome!

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I´m already excited, so thank you guys.

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We brought some presents.

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Come on.

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Come on, we brought presents.

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We are from the Mobile Cinema,
we are here to bring movies to you.

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This is the first time
we come to Yaquispampa

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and we are very happy to meet you
and for you to welcome us at school.

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If anyone wants, we can continue talking,
and you can ask us questions.

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Whatever you want.

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Whatever.

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How long has Mobile Cinema
been around?

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21 years travelling
all around the country.

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We also go to nursing homes,
we screen films for grandfathers, elderly people.

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We also go to prisons to screen movies.

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To prisons.

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To hospitals.

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We go everywhere.
We also go to parks.

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And now we are learning with you,
about what it is like living here,

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how you get to school.

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And you can also learn from us.

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Whatever we can give you,
so you may take something from us.

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What motivated you to come to our school?

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You did.

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Yes, since we had never been here.

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And we met Principal Silvina and she said:

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“There are many schools
which have no roads”.

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And she wanted us
to go to the seven schools on foot.

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Enrique was up for it
and wanted us to get off the van and walk

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but he didn´t even know
just how far away this was.

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Nobody imagined it was so far away.

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I don´t know if you remember I told you

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that we fell asleep three times
at Abra del Tolar, whilst going up.

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We got really sleepy, super drowsy.

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They even had to come pick us up.

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A horse and a mule came to pick us up.

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We stayed there with the principal.

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We could not move forward.

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We walked fifty steps
and our hearts were beating like this.

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And our heads.

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And we were feeling nauseated.

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We couldn´t do it.
We wanted to, but we couldn´t.

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I too used to walk when I was a child,
but I would walk 5km.

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It wasn´t a mountain like this.

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When I was coming up
with a donkey, with a mule, with a horse,

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I rode everything,

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I was crying because I was moved.
I was so moved.

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I cried when I saw you because,
well, we made a huge effort to get here,

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but we are so happy.

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Okay, who is up for a “copla”?
Do you know one, Ivana? A little one?

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At first, when you see yourselves
on the screen you will laugh

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because you find that funny since you
are not used to seeing yourselves there.

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Then, you will get used to it.

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And sometimes you won´t want to be shown,
but later on, you will dare to do it.

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This camera shoots video and photos.

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I also have a smaller camera

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which you will use tomorrow
as well as a cellphone.

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Hello! Good morning Pascuala!

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How are you?

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How are you doing? Good?

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We are doing good.

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I always liked rural schools
because there is so much to be done.

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You have to be at the service
of the children.

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Not just the children,
but also the family.

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And what can be improved here,
you know?

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To do one´s bit.

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Or leave a trail for that community.

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Because when you contribute
something meaningful in school,

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that benefits not only the kid
but also, the community as a whole.

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This is a joint effort together
with the ladies.

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You can´t achieve anything alone.

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This is everyone´s job.

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So, when do you go down now?

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Well, we have to coordinate
with the principal.

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But do any riders pick you up?

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No, we don´t have riders.

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You go on foot?

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Yes.

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You do two days or...?

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No.

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One day?

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It depends.

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Right.

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Usually, we set off from here
up until where you stopped.

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To “El Abra”?

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No, until Mr. Mateo’s house.

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And then the next day
we go down from there.

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Did it work?
Until what time did you stay up? Late!

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A while, we finished watching.

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Women are daring to do everything now.

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The teachers don’t see
the journey, you know?

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They come here to work.

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They are facing the difficulties
and they know they have to walk,

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but they dare to come anyway.

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[RADIO] If we can, we will look
for that Michael Jackson song.

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Greetings to Yaquispampa,
to my mom Candelaria and my dad Ignacio.

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All my brothers. They are Oscar, Ivana,
Josué and Enrique Robles.

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We wanted to let you know
we are doing well, no need to worry.

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From Ezequiel Robles.

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Alright.

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OK, we will pay attention to the radio.

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And did you hear when they said
the Mobile Cinema was coming?

00:23:18.674 --> 00:23:23.890
Yes, the doorman told me he had listened
the Mobile Cinema was in Yaquispampa, yes.

00:23:24.718 --> 00:23:26.123
That’s great.

00:23:26.627 --> 00:23:28.610
Then, I will send my greetings
through all the radios.

00:23:31.538 --> 00:23:36.296
3000 METERS HIGH
1 HOUR AND 15 MINUTES ON FOOT

00:23:36.885 --> 00:23:43.601
The messages our family sends us
from town through the radio,

00:23:43.993 --> 00:23:45.875
that is the way
of communicating we have.

00:23:46.354 --> 00:23:49.324
Usually, it is the “LW8”
and sometimes “La Popular” too.

00:23:49.889 --> 00:23:53.104
We know about them,
but they don´t know anything about us.

00:23:54.978 --> 00:23:57.601
We don´t have cellphones
or internet access.

00:23:58.635 --> 00:24:00.789
So, in that respect,
we are not doing good.

00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:03.000
[RADIO] LW8 reports.

00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:08.900
I have been a health worker here
at Yaquispampa for eight years now.

00:24:10.653 --> 00:24:15.487
My daily chores are: three field days.

00:24:16.972 --> 00:24:20.505
What is field?
Going out to visit people, my people.

00:24:21.102 --> 00:24:23.725
The nearest house
is half an hour away

00:24:24.586 --> 00:24:29.175
and the farthest
is three hours and half away, at my pace.

00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:32.000
OSVALDO GALÁN
HEALTH WORKER AT YAQUISPAMPA

00:24:32.001 --> 00:24:38.432
At Yaquispampa I have 40 houses, 14 families,
11 people living alone and several empty houses.

00:24:39.529 --> 00:24:44.159
During the winter, I do three-day visits,

00:24:44.677 --> 00:24:52.175
but because of the weather
people go down to the Yungas, the lower part,

00:24:52.727 --> 00:24:59.492
because of the pasture for the animals,
because we all live off stockbreeding and agriculture.

00:24:59.724 --> 00:25:01.693
It is subsistence farming.

00:25:01.750 --> 00:25:05.050
We don´t breed to commercialize.
It´s only to survive.

00:25:07.022 --> 00:25:11.465
Before, kids started school here
at age six or seven.

00:25:12.006 --> 00:25:14.233
I started attending first grade
when I was seven.

00:25:14.949 --> 00:25:17.337
Nowadays, they have kindergarten
and all of that.

00:25:17.337 --> 00:25:18.995
They are four years old
and they are already in school.

00:25:22.991 --> 00:25:23.910
What are you going to draw?

00:25:29.180 --> 00:25:31.773
When we were watching
the Mobile Cinema crew.

00:25:44.116 --> 00:25:46.038
Would you like to tell me
what are you going to draw?

00:25:47.077 --> 00:25:47.972
The screen.

00:25:55.657 --> 00:25:58.232
We only have a terrestrial mean
of communication.

00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:04.977
It takes one day, 12 hours, to get to Tilcara,
where you can leave a message.

00:26:05.930 --> 00:26:15.459
In case of an emergency, we set up
an improvised wooden gurney called stretcher

00:26:15.991 --> 00:26:19.675
and it is mobilized on people´s shoulders.

00:26:22.905 --> 00:26:27.073
Usually, the average time is 12 hours,
without carrying anything.

00:26:27.073 --> 00:26:32.273
When we set off with a patient,
it´s twice that time.

00:26:33.618 --> 00:26:38.953
If we are talking about emergencies,
an emergency in the city it truly is one.

00:26:39.322 --> 00:26:40.788
But here, if we have an emergency,

00:26:40.995 --> 00:26:46.178
it takes 12 to 24 hours minimum
to even head off.

00:26:47.028 --> 00:26:47.788
Why is that?

00:26:48.013 --> 00:26:50.595
Because we have to prepare
what I call the stretcher.

00:26:50.928 --> 00:26:51.884
It takes some time.

00:26:51.884 --> 00:26:57.296
You have to find the wood
and people who can help us carry it.

00:26:57.600 --> 00:26:58.900
That means time.

00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:34.500
THERE IS NO WRONG PATH OR LIMIT WHEN YOU LOVE
WHAT YOU DO. THANKS, MOBILE CINEMA.

00:27:34.501 --> 00:27:35.800
We will go shooting.

00:27:39.744 --> 00:27:45.040
Yesterday,
we learned films can be short or long.

00:27:46.122 --> 00:27:48.737
A short film is up to 30 minutes.

00:27:50.142 --> 00:27:53.838
A long feature film is over 60 minutes.

00:27:55.367 --> 00:28:00.827
If we are doing fiction,
we will have actors and actresses, right?

00:28:02.029 --> 00:28:05.418
Acting is a profession: they act for the movie.

00:28:06.338 --> 00:28:10.179
If we are doing a documentary,
we will have leads.

00:28:10.492 --> 00:28:15.836
Right now, we are the leads
of a documentary Carmina is shooting.

00:28:17.560 --> 00:28:22.028
Then, if we have animation,
what did we have?

00:28:22.247 --> 00:28:23.137
Cartoons.

00:28:23.432 --> 00:28:24.764
Did you see how they were drawn?

00:28:25.295 --> 00:28:28.200
And how the cartoons
can also be made of play dough?

00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:31.200
There are some communities
who see us as being invasive.

00:28:31.837 --> 00:28:32.743
What do we want?

00:28:32.743 --> 00:28:36.065
Do we want to take their pictures
or their landscapes?

00:28:36.688 --> 00:28:40.280
But when they see what we do,
they cherish it. They do.

00:28:40.280 --> 00:28:42.694
They realize we don´t want
to take anything from them,

00:28:42.694 --> 00:28:47.292
only bring them movies and show them
other realities, specially to the kids.

00:28:47.919 --> 00:28:50.846
What do we need to make a movie?

00:28:51.264 --> 00:28:52.215
A director.

00:28:53.947 --> 00:28:55.776
In this case, Carmina.

00:28:56.483 --> 00:28:58.525
A producer, who is David over there.

00:29:00.604 --> 00:29:05.767
We need a cameraperson,
who in this case is Ceci, who is over there.

00:29:06.229 --> 00:29:08.165
Sound, alright?

00:29:09.995 --> 00:29:14.800
And now, let´s go over the shots,
so you remember them and we can go.

00:29:21.414 --> 00:29:26.002
Extreme close-up. Wait here.
Extreme close-up here, with the feet.

00:29:26.462 --> 00:29:27.386
Come closer.

00:29:28.199 --> 00:29:30.192
Now, he will get closer. Who won?

00:29:30.760 --> 00:29:31.543
Who won?

00:29:31.775 --> 00:29:32.605
Foot-to-foot race?

00:29:32.605 --> 00:29:33.062
You?

00:29:33.062 --> 00:29:34.261
Oh, okay.

00:29:34.261 --> 00:29:35.195
You do the same.

00:29:35.779 --> 00:29:37.529
Get your feet here.
Like so, full shot.

00:29:37.529 --> 00:29:40.064
Oh, of course. Yes.
Wait, he is missing his vest.

00:29:40.318 --> 00:29:42.000
All of it, they both need to be in it.

00:29:42.433 --> 00:29:43.402
Are we ready?

00:29:43.918 --> 00:29:44.687
Action!

00:29:45.728 --> 00:29:47.128
There we go.
Ivana, Ivana!

00:29:47.829 --> 00:29:48.582
Come on!

00:29:50.042 --> 00:29:51.774
Say hi, everyone!

00:29:56.171 --> 00:29:57.450
Good job, Ivana!

00:30:23.452 --> 00:30:26.890
Look, in the Andean world, progress
can sometimes be seen as invasive,

00:30:27.093 --> 00:30:31.313
but that is only until they learn about it,
accept it and see its benefits.

00:30:31.767 --> 00:30:35.141
In rural communities, they always ask:
“What is that good for?”.

00:30:36.142 --> 00:30:37.842
“I mean, what’s in it for me?”.

00:30:38.755 --> 00:30:40.188
They see the practical side.

00:30:40.392 --> 00:30:45.276
And, to me,
they want progress on this road.

00:30:50.608 --> 00:30:54.186
According to what I spoke
with everyone at the community,

00:30:54.892 --> 00:30:56.655
they all wanted the road.

00:30:57.234 --> 00:31:01.108
They wanted to have that
because their lands, their fields.

00:31:01.658 --> 00:31:04.383
Their kids are alienated.

00:31:04.905 --> 00:31:08.642
They have no choice but
to go down to a city to attend high school.

00:31:09.217 --> 00:31:12.769
I mean, back home
they can only go to primary school.

00:31:16.691 --> 00:31:20.266
I hope the extension of the road can be done,
the continuation of the road.

00:31:20.515 --> 00:31:21.890
Obviously, it takes a lot of time,

00:31:22.343 --> 00:31:29.200
but it is up to us to make that continue
and not giving up

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:32.600
or leaving that half done, you know?

00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:35.850
We always have to work together
in these rural places,

00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:41.200
school and community,
for a common goal.

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:43.400
For a common goal for everyone,
you know?

00:31:55.829 --> 00:31:59.733
If they open up a road,
they ask for permission

00:32:00.171 --> 00:32:03.600
and do a ceremony
before they open that road

00:32:04.100 --> 00:32:06.392
or do anything which might harm

00:32:06.392 --> 00:32:09.784
or pollute the environment they inhabit.

00:32:10.765 --> 00:32:13.045
Before they opened it, they did that.

00:32:13.045 --> 00:32:14.926
They asked for Pachamama´s permission.

00:32:15.192 --> 00:32:17.066
They summoned the locals.

00:32:17.516 --> 00:32:21.478
They ask for forgiveness
for damaging the land.

00:32:34.782 --> 00:32:39.369
You may communicate with a tree,
or a stone, with the river

00:32:39.658 --> 00:32:43.614
because they interpret that
in a natural sense.

00:32:44.769 --> 00:32:48.312
Communicating is the most spiritual thing,
don´t you think?

00:32:49.399 --> 00:32:52.344
Communicating with this, with nature.

00:32:52.702 --> 00:32:53.666
Have that time.

00:32:55.433 --> 00:33:00.708
The cactuses, the stones,
it is all a part of Mother Earth.

00:33:02.820 --> 00:33:05.205
And it gives us everything
we need in this life.

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.491
And well, after we die,
we go back to the earth.

00:33:09.750 --> 00:33:11.430
It is a beginning and an ending.

00:33:15.077 --> 00:33:16.976
Earth is everything in the Andean world.

00:33:17.658 --> 00:33:19.220
It is the thing that gives us everything.

00:33:19.220 --> 00:33:23.829
It is the one that gives us life,
food and where we rest.

00:33:24.056 --> 00:33:26.037
Earth is sacred for the Andean world.

00:33:27.301 --> 00:33:28.955
A lot of things come together, you know?

00:33:29.314 --> 00:33:31.750
This thing about the road,
which is closer to happening,

00:33:32.143 --> 00:33:36.163
it might take 20 years
to make a road to Yaquispampa.

00:33:36.922 --> 00:33:43.813
Cinema is also an open door
to live other experiences, to learn.

00:33:48.052 --> 00:33:51.293
If progress comes in too close,
they will also lose their identity.

00:33:52.171 --> 00:33:54.043
And even though progress is essential

00:33:54.441 --> 00:33:56.389
to improve their quality of life,

00:33:57.577 --> 00:33:59.592
identity should be preserved.

00:34:02.803 --> 00:34:07.597
We have to fight so we can maintain
or preserve what little is left.

00:34:08.950 --> 00:34:12.562
The generations are changing
and they adjust to progress, you know?

00:34:14.106 --> 00:34:18.271
So, it´s going to be difficult,
preserving what little is left, you know?

00:34:19.747 --> 00:34:24.086
♪ Sir, I ask for permission,
so you are more careful. ♪

00:34:24.543 --> 00:34:28.833
♪ We have to take care of what´s within,
what is out is borrowed. ♪

00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:32.685
Oscarcito, don´t you remember?

00:34:38.418 --> 00:34:39.201
Josué!

00:34:42.001 --> 00:34:46.044
♪ My throat hurts from all this singing ♪

00:34:46.382 --> 00:34:50.421
♪ If they gave me a little hug,
I would be healed ♪

00:34:51.496 --> 00:34:55.067
♪ I am Quebradeño, sirs,
and here I come ♪

00:34:55.067 --> 00:35:01.999
♪ No matter how much work I do,
I live singing ♪

00:35:03.890 --> 00:35:10.320
Coming here and being here
is the best thing that happens to us.

00:35:10.496 --> 00:35:12.850
When we are not here
and we are on holidays, we miss it.

00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.182
I would always drop off my daughter.

00:35:20.477 --> 00:35:21.993
I used to leave her
for many years now.

00:35:22.264 --> 00:35:23.634
Now I leave my granddaughter.

00:35:24.132 --> 00:35:26.894
One makes a decision
and you have to accept it and move on

00:35:27.152 --> 00:35:28.469
and always look ahead.

00:35:30.012 --> 00:35:34.165
Obviously, if you look back
you will be disappointed, right?

00:35:34.469 --> 00:35:36.310
You have to keep on going
and keep on looking ahead.

00:35:39.821 --> 00:35:41.351
I have always been very independent.

00:35:41.998 --> 00:35:46.789
I don´t need the support of a man
to move forward.

00:35:47.289 --> 00:35:50.382
I am strong and I know what my goal is.

00:35:51.352 --> 00:35:52.834
No, I don´t regret anything.

00:35:59.483 --> 00:36:00.122
Let´s go in.

00:36:00.336 --> 00:36:01.190
It´s getting cold! It´s getting cold!

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:02.559
Come on.

00:36:02.826 --> 00:36:04.606
I'll wash my hands.

00:36:11.811 --> 00:36:17.954
The meeting of these very strong women,
has been impressive.

00:36:18.752 --> 00:36:21.472
As a woman, I related to them a lot.

00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:25.045
Being a woman in Jujuy
is already hard, you know?

00:36:26.388 --> 00:36:29.381
And it´s even harder
when you are out of your house for so long.

00:36:29.936 --> 00:36:33.174
If a man is out of his house
for a week or for a day,

00:36:33.392 --> 00:36:37.309
or if he travels three days that´s great,
because he is working for his family.

00:36:38.091 --> 00:36:42.374
But if a woman leaves her house, her kids,
that is frowned upon.

00:36:42.858 --> 00:36:46.987
It is frowned upon because there are always
suspicions that one is not going to work.

00:36:47.265 --> 00:36:48.271
One is going to work.

00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:50.607
And these teachers prove it.

00:36:50.850 --> 00:36:52.400
I suffer this, too.

00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:54.450
Whenever you are ready!

00:37:14.672 --> 00:37:16.297
It´s better here first.

00:37:16.297 --> 00:37:17.281
Come on.

00:37:17.771 --> 00:37:19.503
Keep the light from hitting the screen.

00:37:20.610 --> 00:37:22.182
The darker, the better.

00:37:27.883 --> 00:37:29.562
OK, there. Wait, stop.

00:37:30.410 --> 00:37:32.586
Let´s turn off the lights
and see if any light comes in.

00:37:33.063 --> 00:37:33.673
Alright.

00:37:37.460 --> 00:37:39.797
The DVD player will be closer here.

00:37:40.798 --> 00:37:42.892
Do you remember
the first movie you ever saw?

00:37:44.692 --> 00:37:47.687
I was a farmer. I watched some TV.

00:37:52.831 --> 00:37:54.426
But we didn´t have a television.

00:37:56.063 --> 00:37:58.609
So, the first movie you saw,
it was as a young lady?

00:37:58.929 --> 00:38:04.684
That´s right. When my sister got married,
we used to watch “Zorro”.

00:38:08.189 --> 00:38:10.627
Do you remember the first movie
you ever watched?

00:38:11.486 --> 00:38:14.315
Yes, it was a very funny movie.

00:38:14.972 --> 00:38:16.515
Cinemas were already closing,

00:38:17.121 --> 00:38:21.236
and my cousin Elena
took me to see “The living dead”,

00:38:21.535 --> 00:38:25.550
so, I ended up super scared
and I think that day I had nightmares.

00:38:28.140 --> 00:38:32.641
My first movie - And maybe that´s why I like cars.

00:38:34.282 --> 00:38:35.923
It was “Cobra”.

00:38:36.534 --> 00:38:40.048
My dad took me to the cinema
and it was a hell of a movie.

00:38:40.335 --> 00:38:41.300
I will never forget it.

00:38:43.061 --> 00:38:47.000
Schwarzenegger was on it
and he had a black car.

00:38:48.619 --> 00:38:52.550
I would go: “Wow!”
because I would see him jumping in his car

00:38:52.862 --> 00:38:56.143
and I would think:
“How does he do that?”

00:38:57.390 --> 00:39:00.154
Let’s go in,
there’s going to be a screening, alright?

00:39:00.235 --> 00:39:01.705
Come on in, let´s go.

00:39:05.437 --> 00:39:07.440
Go ahead, take a seat.

00:39:10.700 --> 00:39:15.000
We never went to any cinemas,
we didn´t get a chance.

00:39:15.150 --> 00:39:19.989
It is a luxury to watch a movie
in a big screen here.

00:39:21.798 --> 00:39:23.330
We hope you can join us this afternoon!

00:39:23.707 --> 00:39:24.360
Thanks.

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:25.200
Thank you.

00:40:01.845 --> 00:40:05.986
My dream was to go to the moon.

00:40:06.956 --> 00:40:13.236
To go on one of those big rockets,
go off and be an astronaut.

00:40:14.160 --> 00:40:17.553
Travelling on a plane too,
obviously, and be a pilot.

00:40:19.250 --> 00:40:21.533
And now I am actually travelling to the moon.

00:40:23.334 --> 00:40:26.697
You fulfill your dreams.

00:40:35.005 --> 00:40:36.572
The dreams I had growing up,

00:40:36.972 --> 00:40:41.500
I used to constantly make up stories,
making up characters.

00:40:42.406 --> 00:40:45.086
Or, if I was watching TV,
I would choose a character.

00:40:55.769 --> 00:40:58.892
In this experience
of the “Film on Foot” project,

00:40:59.486 --> 00:41:01.406
we came across many life stories,

00:41:02.235 --> 00:41:07.220
people who welcomed us,
took us in, gave us shelter.

00:41:09.162 --> 00:41:12.228
This last trip made me remember
many things about my mother,

00:41:12.699 --> 00:41:16.014
and many things about my childhood,
which is what marks us for life.

00:41:16.682 --> 00:41:19.154
And I think that is what
Mobile Cinema is all about, you know?

00:41:19.200 --> 00:41:21.550
We leave a mark on each spectator.

00:41:28.312 --> 00:41:33.296
That is what I think cinema is:
delivering hope, possible worlds.

00:41:33.964 --> 00:41:38.248
Just like when I started
loving stories as a kid,

00:41:38.851 --> 00:41:42.512
stories like these can make children
have another outlook on life.

00:41:43.321 --> 00:41:45.748
Not to change their outlook,
but to know about others.

00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:57.000
I was very excited.
“Film on Foot” gives me a lot of faith, a lot.

00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:03.777
And the teachers and principals
thanked us so much and told us:

00:42:03.992 --> 00:42:05.850
“Don’t forget about this little school”.

00:42:07.977 --> 00:42:11.474
There are some people
who forget about this little school.

00:42:12.580 --> 00:42:14.337
I will never forget it.

00:42:14.998 --> 00:42:19.824
The biggest challenge
was crossing a hill and we did it.

00:42:35.900 --> 00:42:36.850
Thank you.

00:42:40.074 --> 00:42:42.061
For all the children we have met.

00:42:43.838 --> 00:42:46.852
After 10 days, we are coming back.

00:42:47.726 --> 00:42:49.614
Thank you, Mother. Thank you.

00:42:53.181 --> 00:42:55.412
We thank you, Pachita, for letting us travel.

00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:06.887
Holy Earth, we thank you
for having everything be OK.

00:43:10.132 --> 00:43:13.914
May you bless all the schools
we have been on,

00:43:15.178 --> 00:43:17.873
may there be more trips.

00:43:19.451 --> 00:43:21.789
May you also bless all these people.

00:43:23.171 --> 00:43:26.805
For taking care of us, for protecting us,
for everything.

00:43:27.725 --> 00:43:28.716
Thank you.

00:43:29.554 --> 00:43:30.570
We thank the Earth.

00:43:32.963 --> 00:43:35.476
It´s always there, isn´t it?
That faith is alive.

00:43:35.476 --> 00:43:36.804
It always has to be alive.

00:43:37.009 --> 00:43:39.963
That strength, that faith.
Because faith moves mountains.

00:43:41.243 --> 00:43:43.006
And miracles exist, don´t you think?

00:43:43.319 --> 00:43:45.367
In these places, when you are alone.

00:43:46.277 --> 00:43:49.727
And you achieve something,
hard earned, you know?

00:43:50.781 --> 00:43:53.510
I do it for my daughter
and now for my granddaughter

00:43:54.324 --> 00:43:55.951
because children learn by example.

00:43:56.947 --> 00:44:01.070
So, in seeing this, I hope one day

00:44:01.343 --> 00:44:04.116
my granddaughter will also have
the same love for what she does.

00:44:04.684 --> 00:44:05.758
And specially my daughter.

00:44:06.117 --> 00:44:09.351
As long as God grants me
that physical strength and good health,

00:44:10.477 --> 00:44:11.776
I will keep on doing it.

00:44:11.776 --> 00:44:15.984
But once God says, “okay, this is it”,
I will move closer to home.

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TRAVELLING FAR IS GETTING CLOSER.

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IN 2018, A MOUTAIN ROAD

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BEGAN CONNECTING “VALLES DE ALTURA”
WITH THE NEAREST TOWN.

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THE YAQUISPAMPA COMMUNITY

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IS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVE A ROAD
THAT LEADS TO ITS LOCATION.

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THAT CONSTRUCTION IS STILL UNCERTAIN,

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JUST LIKE THE IMPACT
THAT MAY HAVE ON ALL WHO WALK IT.