Manolo Sarmiento
Manolo Sarmiento is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, lawyer, and journalist who currently works as a professor at the Film School of the University of the Arts in Guayaquil. He studied law at the Catholic University of Ecuador and film at the University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle. He also holds a master’s degree in Visual Anthropology and Anthropological Documentary from FLACSO-Ecuador. He is a founding member and former director of the Cinememoria Corporation, the organizing body of EDOC – Festival Internacional de Cine Documental. He is known for Problemas personales (2002), La muerte de Jaime Roldós (2013), and more recently Toroboro: The Name of the Plants (2024). His work is characterized by in-depth research, sharp political insight, and a commitment to uncovering suppressed narratives within Ecuadorian society.
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Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
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Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries. The main threats to their survival are now the oil and timber industries.
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
New product!Duration: 3h28
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Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries. The main threats to their survival are now the oil and timber industries.
