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Once Upon a Time in Venezuela documentary

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Original title

Érase una vez en Venezuelaaka

AKA

Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador

Year

2020

Running time

99 min.

Country

Venezuela

Director

Anabel Rodriguez Rios

Screenwriter

Anabel Rodriguez Rios

Cast

Documentary, Self: Yohanny Navarro Piñeiro, Tamara Villasmil, Natalie Sánchez

Music

Nascuy Linares

Cinematography

John Márquez

Producer

Co-production Venezuela-United Kingdom-Brazil-Austria;

Sancocho Público, Spiraleye Productions, Golden Girls Filmproduktion, TRES Cinematografía

Genre

Documentary | Politics

Synopsis

Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador, floating on stilts just inches above the deep Lake Maracaibo, was prosperous, alive with fishermen and poets. In recent years, it has decayed and disintegrated, rotting beneath pollution and neglect—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.

At the center of the village’s existential fight for survival stand two female leaders—Mrs. Tamara, the Chavista government coordinator of the village, and Natalie, a vocal teacher and opponent of Mrs. Tamara and her state-approved practices of bribery and intimidation. As the contentious national elections approach, fear within the community extends beyond the partisan divide of Venezuelan politics; the villagers’ homes are quite literally vanishing into the sedimented water, displacing families with no means of surviving elsewhere.

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Awards: 2020: Sundance Film Festival: World Cinema Documentary Competition

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