Oro Blanco

Harsh winds, vast salt lakes and dryness shape the mountians of north west Argentina. Every morning Flora walks out into the mountains with her onehundred llamas searching for pastures. However every season the animals become thinner and the landscape drier. The high planes of the Salinas Grandes hide one of the biggest lithium reserves in the world. In order to extract it the last sweet water of the desert is being pumped into vast reserves by international companies. The world ́s hunger for rechargeable batteries threatens the Atacama and Kolla people and evokes memories of past conquistas.
"Oro Blanco" depicts the lives and fears of the people fighting for their territory and way of living.

documentary / 23:53 min. / 2018
directed by Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez
cinematography by Rina Zimmering
produced by Luciana Newton
edited by Robert Vakily
a production by University of Television and Film Munich

Awards
Nominated for the Student Academy Award® / Student Oscar®
Green Planet award at Festival della Lessinia
Sustainability Award at International Short Film Festival Regensburg

Screenings
DOK Leipzig//2018
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen //2019
Guanajuato International Film Festival //2019
Filmfestival Lessinia //2019
Student Academy Awards //2019
Shorts at Moonlight //2019
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus //2019
FIEC Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine Uruguay//2019
Neustrelitzer Naturfilmfestival Mensch! Natur!//2019
DOQUMENTA//2019
Über Kurz oder Lang, Murnau//2019
Etnovideográfica - INTERNATIONAL ETHNOVIDEOGRAPHYC FESTIVAL//2019
Global University Film Awards//2020
FIDÉ Brasil//2019
International Film Festival First Frame//2019
Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival//2019
Globale Mittelhessen//2019
Nuovi Mondi Mountain Film Festival//2019
FICE - Festival Internacional de Cine Ensenada//2019
Filmschoolfest Munich//2019

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