guajari 15-1-2008 15:16:
Documentary on the Encanto Mauricio
Greetings to this community. I am an educator and filmmaker and I have completed a 30-minute documentary about the myth of the Encanto Mauricio, in Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela. This is a very singular example of the relationship between a community, its beliefs, and ecology. I encountered an endless number of real testimonies about the Encanto from ordinary people, educators, graduates, ecologists, poets, mystics, etc., and I had the opportunity to visit and film the sanctuaries and the places where this spiritual being dwells. The waterfalls, caves, torrents, and other wild places are the subject of an ecological struggle for their preservation against economic interests. In the city of Ocumare the presence of the Encanto is real and tangible, and although environmental and cultural contamination are a latent threat against it, such is the strength of this entity that it will always watch over the sacred places of the Valleys of the Tuy.
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