Esmeraldas Beach = La plage d'Esmeraldas / L'Atelier Documentaire preésente ; un film de Patrice Raynal.

New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions, 2020.

1 videodisc (58 min.) : color ; 4 3/4 in.

PPR : Public or private screenings for an audience of 100 or less, with or without admission.

"In today's Ecuador, the black population, the descendants of enslaved Africans, continue to experience strong social discrimination. Yet people in the community still strive to value their specific culture and transmit the rebellious memory of their ancestors who fought for freedom. The Esmeraldas Beach sets out to expose the invisibility of Afro-Ecuadorians and rectify the narrative of the country's history with the film's central protagonist, Juan García, who has worked on that project for years. He developed a school book that presents black Ecuadorians prominently since the only Afro-descendants shown in local school books are portrayed next to a marimba and football. The documentary also addresses the 1999 assassination of Prime Minister Jaime Hurtado, the first Black to hold this office"--Container

Images / Video & Film

Spanish; French

February 01, 2023

DVD