Aluna 2013

After some extensive re-editing at the end of 2012 Aluna got off to a great start in 2013 with sold out festival showings at both Helsinki Docpoint and Tallinn Docpoint. Alan Ereira the Director then took the film up north to the home of the Sami people in Finnish...

Aluna screening at festivals in Finland

ALUNA has not yet been made publicly available as we do not want to endanger any potential TV or cinema release. But film festivals are another matter, and so ALUNA is now about to appear in Finland. The Kogi have a connection to the Sámi (northern Finland) who took a...

Filming

This has been the year of filming. ALUNA started shooting in July. When it was all over, we took the finished film for review to the Kogi. The Mamas approved but said that the film did not end correctly – there needed to be a vision of a positive future, or the...

Professor Richard Ellis Meets the Kogi – En Espanol

MI ENCUENTRO con el MAMA SHIBULATA en el Observatorio de la Universidad de Londres, ciertamente ha sido un evento memorable (por Richard Ellis, Steele Professor of Astronomy, Caltech – Julio 2011). Soy un astrónomo profesional que se dedica ha observar el universo...

Official Statement from the Kogi Mamos

Santa Marta, 4 June, 2011 This statement has been motivated by the latest comments that have appeared on social networks on the internet, making ill-intentioned claims about the documentary ‘Aluna’ and the free self determination of the people participating in it....