Since 2010, 11 Inga and Kamëntsá communities in the Sibundoy Valley and Mocoa, Colombia, have denounced the presence of mining megaprojects in their ancestral territory. In 2014, a mining megaproject was stopped through multiple actions, including communication. With support from the Keepers of the Earth Fund in 2024, Tabanok Audiovisual School received a grant to carry out a training in audiovisual tools and to produce a short documentary film on the Amazonian Andean Foothills, where an open-pit mining megaproject is being developed. The film was screened in different local and national spaces.
In continuation of the capacity building training, they completed another short video titled "El Cobre está cerca a 'El Fin del Mundo'," set in the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Mocoa, Putumayo, where a proposed open-pit mining megaproject threatens natural and sacred areas near water streams.
The audiovisual production sought to combine the territory's visual and sound cultural elements with elements of the global context to achieve a fun, fluid audiovisual piece, with a clear message of the impacts of a development project in Indigenous communities. Among these elements are the color, textures, environments, and sounds found in art, weaving, music, and territory, mainly from the practices and knowledge of the Inga and Kamentsá Indigenous Peoples of the Sibundoy Valley. This video was narrated by members of the community, deepening the message along with technical support from Tabanok Audiovisual School (Escuela Audiovisual Tabanok).
“On behalf of the Tabanok Audiovisual School, I would like to thank you for your support in developing the project Somos ANDINOAMAZONIA Corazón del agua. It is very important that this process of defense of our ancestral territory against transnational interests for its plundering continues. From here, we will continue taking actions to take care of our territory. We hope we can continue weaving this process with your support.” Pedro Jajoy Juajiboy director of Tabanok Audiovisual School.
