Overview
A short documentary featuring Maras: A community in the Peruvian Andes harvesting salt at 3,300 meters above sea level.
TEam
Directors
Cristóbal Ruiz & Thomas Silcock
DP
Thomas Silcock
Editor
Cristóbal Ruiz
Country
Peru
2018
The story
At 3,300 meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, Indigenous communities have harvested salt by hand for over 600 years, predating the Inca Empire.
featuring
Through the eyes of Laurita, a 65-year-old salt worker, the film explores how the people of Maras reclaimed ownership of the salt mine and how this ancestral practice continues to shape future generations.