Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from a Guatemalan Village

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A documentary film with the title Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from a Guatemalan Village. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound. The documentary looks at the life of the residents of the Mayan village Todos Santos Cuchumatan in the Guatemalan highlands just before a violent military coup in 1982. Some of the topics discussed in the documentary include the increasing role of cash in the community, which largely consists of subsistent farmers; the Fiesta of Todos Santos celebration, which includes dancing, drinking and a horse race; as well as the mass migration of Todosanteros to Guatemala’s lowlands in search of work on cotton plantations.

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