Content Details
Lantec Chana
Duration: 61′
Language: Chaná, Spanish
Subtitle: English
Production Year: 2017
Format: HD
Director: Marina Zeising
Origin: Argentina
SYNOPSIS
Blas Jaime, a retired man from Entre Ríos, Argentina, being 71, publicly revealed, that he is the last heir of the Chaná language, an ethnicity native from South America, that was considered extinct more than 200 years ago. Pedro Viegas Barros, a linguist of indigenous languages, validated his tongue and culture. His investigations caused recognition by UNESCO as the last Chaná speaker. Together, they embarked in an odyssey to transcend this cultural legacy with the purpose of it not to vanish as most languages around the world.
AWARDS
• Selected at Georgia Indigenous FF, International Film and Indigenous Arts Festival Chile, FIDBA Documentary IFF, La Habana IFF, Latin American Trieste FF, Uruguay IFF