There are few places on this Earth that are quite like the Bolivian salt flat known as Salar de Uyuni. The world’s largest flat, Salar de Uyuni is almost like looking in on a planet in a far away galaxy. With almost blindingly white salt making its barren terrain truly otherworldly, this salt flat is home to a subset of the Bolivian population known as saleros, a group of people who harvest the salt from the said flat.
People like Moises Chambi Yucra. Seemingly just another face, the new documentary Salero centers around this man, one of the few remaining saleros. A dying way of life that’s seemingly ready to crush under the combative weights of the past and the future, saleros are seeing their lives shift dramatically as Bolivian leaders not try to not only mine a mineral from below the flat, but make the flat itself...
People like Moises Chambi Yucra. Seemingly just another face, the new documentary Salero centers around this man, one of the few remaining saleros. A dying way of life that’s seemingly ready to crush under the combative weights of the past and the future, saleros are seeing their lives shift dramatically as Bolivian leaders not try to not only mine a mineral from below the flat, but make the flat itself...
- 10/13/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
The River Run International Film Festival wrapped its 18th edition in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with its narrative feature award going to Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, which was, in the words of the jury, “an audacious debut from a promising American talent.”
Best documentary feature went to Mike Plunkett’s Salero, about one of the last salt gatherers in Bolivia. The jury praised that film “for its astonishing visuals, narrative acuity and ability to showcase characters that go against the grain.”
The Fits, a Venice Biennale College project that also played at Sundance, also won best actress for its impressive young newcomer Royalty Hightower.
Interestingly, there is a link between the two top winners — debutant director Holmer from The Fits also served as a producer on Salero.
The jury’s best ensemble performance went to Jackson Martin, Nick Serino and Reece Moffett in Sleeping Giant, with best director honours for Romania’s Radu Muntean for One...
Best documentary feature went to Mike Plunkett’s Salero, about one of the last salt gatherers in Bolivia. The jury praised that film “for its astonishing visuals, narrative acuity and ability to showcase characters that go against the grain.”
The Fits, a Venice Biennale College project that also played at Sundance, also won best actress for its impressive young newcomer Royalty Hightower.
Interestingly, there is a link between the two top winners — debutant director Holmer from The Fits also served as a producer on Salero.
The jury’s best ensemble performance went to Jackson Martin, Nick Serino and Reece Moffett in Sleeping Giant, with best director honours for Romania’s Radu Muntean for One...
- 4/17/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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