Songs that Flood the River [Documentary]

April 11, 2022
New York City
Cinepolis Chelsea Auditorium
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 – 9:00 PM

ABOUT
COUNTRY COLOMBIA
YEAR 2021
DURATION 72 min
LANGUAGE Spanish/English subtitles
SYNOPSIS

Oneida was still a child when she learned the Afro-Colombian tradition of singing “alabados” to accompany the dead on their journey to purgatory. With one leg devoured by a snake, and a war without truce, she became the composer of new songs and made her wounds a source of inspiration. Today, Oneida’s compositions unite to the voice of millions in the reconciliation process of a country with one of the longest wars in history.
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CAST & CREDITS
DIRECTOR
Germán Arango Rendón
SCRIPT Germán Arango Rendón y Gustavo Vasco
PRODUCER Ana María Muñoz
EDITOR Gustavo Vasco
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Liberman Arango
CAST
Oneida Orejuela Barco y las Cantadoras de Bojayá

DIRECTOR’S BIO 

GERMÁN ARANGO RENDÓN
(Colombia 1981) Also known as LUCKAS PERRO (Colombia, 1981) he is an anthropologist and a filmmaker with a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology from Equador’s FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales). He has been a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Communication at the University of Antioquia. He has directed eight documentaries and twelve hip-hop video clips. He has also worked in TV stations as Señal Colombia and Teleantioquia. He is currently developing several film scripts. “Songs that flood the river” is his first feature-length documentary.