Awarded a commendation for the Richard Werbner Prize for Visual Ethnography, at the 2019 RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film
Horror in the Andes is a film about three friends and their journey making a horror movie in the small town of Ayacucho in the Peruvian Andes. This documentary film is based on research conducted by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich at the University of Bern. It explores how Andean filmmakers have resorted to horror fiction as a means to revive a pre-colonial past and their desire to make cinema for local audiences. Martha's film looks at the genre of horror films as both artistic practice and social critique.
Director: Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Producer: Andy Lawrence
Camera: Jose Luis Fajardo
Sound: Martha-Cecilia Dietrich / Jose Luis Fajardo
Editing: Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Additional editing and finishing: Andy Lawrence
Producer: Andy Lawrence
Camera: Jose Luis Fajardo
Sound: Martha-Cecilia Dietrich / Jose Luis Fajardo
Editing: Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Additional editing and finishing: Andy Lawrence
Currently touring film festivals and conferences worldwide
The Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS) Workshop “Héroes y pueblos” / “Heroes and the people” University of Bern, Switzerland, 14-15 December 2018
RAI Film Festival official selection (special interest) commendation for Richard Werbner Award, Bristol, UK 27-30 March 2019 (Premier) **COMMENDATION**
Vision du Reel, Media Library Selection, Switzerland, 5-13 April 2019
South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Chile, June 2019
IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress "World Solidarities" audiovisual programme at the Palace Cinema in Poznan, Poland, 27-31 August 2019
Oaxaca Film Festival, Mexico, 4-10 October 2019
Short Long World Festival, Corrientes, Argentina, 7-10 November 2019 **WINNER**
Ethnografische Filmtage Bremen, Kino City 46, Germany, 14 November 2019
SVA Film and Media Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 20-24 November 2019 **WINNER**
Ethnofest, Athens, Greece, 21-25 November 2019
Medellin International Film Festival, Colombia, 13-16 Feb 2020 **WINNER**
LASA 2020 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, 13-16 May 2020
2Rivers Film Festival on Cross Cultural Documentary, Koblenz, Germany, 10-14 June 2020
Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic & Historical Film Festival, Cyprus 31 July-2 August 2020
Collected Voices Film Festival 2020, Chicago, US 20-31 October, 2020 **COMMENDATION**
Cine Tornado Festival 2020, Curitiba Brazil, November 2020
The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival, Eugene, Oregon, US 12-16 May, 2021
