It has taken the journalist and documentary filmmaker, Constanza Fernandez, 5 years to finish her documentary “Perpetual Banks, the Life Behind the Pascua Lama”, the second part to “Feet of Gold” by the same filmmaker. The contention and self-management, that has characterized the productions regarding this mining conflict, will be released in Santiago at the Women’s Film Festival on March 20^th at 17:00 in the Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Ex Diego Portales) in the conference room 2.

Admission is free, so you are all very welcome. Lets take this opportunity to re-acquaint ourselves!

Synopsis: Like every day, Tina opens the corral and about 40 sheep rush to the green meadow, then she goes looking for her boots in order to open the irrigation canal gates and allow the water to run through every corner of her vines. The whisper of wind that accompanies her is interrupted by the passing of a truck and a few miles further up a group of men begin the survey work that, months later, will allow the construction of more than 80 high tension towers in the area. Down in the town of El Corral, Tina has completed the irrigation work and Wilson has completed the baling, now he lights the fire of his wood stove and sits down to contemplate. So goes the day, and Beatriz along with Humberto, the elders of the town, ask Nicholas and Fani, the youngest in the home, to put down 3 of their chickens. Perpetual Banks is a 4-year follow-up that seeks to rescue a way of life that exists and thrives thanks to the virtues of nature, specifically the water from the Huasco River and its tributaries, streams that begin at more than 5000 meters, at the height of the 3 glaciers that are currently under threat by the arrival of the mining company Barrick Gold.