by Aluna | Mar 13, 2012 | Press
An indigenous community is in mourning after 33 huts and a ceremonial house burned down in the northern Magdalena department Saturday. An army commander reported that a fire caused by “climactic conditions, high winds and intense summer weather” scorched the Kogi...
by Aluna | Jun 21, 2011 | Press
Documentary film-maker Alan Ereira has started production on his new film, Aluna. The project is a follow-up to his 1990 BBC documetnary From The Heart Of The World: The Elder Brother’s Warning, about the Kogi tribe. This new film will follow a Kogi girl and her...
by Aluna | Jun 21, 2011 | Press
Aluna, the follow-up to Alan Ereira’s 1990 BBC doc, From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brother’s Warning, has begun production. While the first documentary introduced the world to the Kogi tribe, Aluna will follow a Kogi girl and her father journeying to the UK,...
by Aluna | Oct 3, 2010 | Press
I didn’t come to Britain for a holiday: we Kogi people don’t just up and leave our mud huts willy-nilly. I came to finish a documentary about our way of life in the hope that it might inspire the western world to adopt a similar style of living. If things don’t change...
by Aluna | Sep 30, 2010 | Press
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest coastal mountain in the world. The pyramid-shaped peak rises up from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, reaching 5,775m (18,946ft) above sea level. The mountain has a huge range of microclimates that nurture some of the...
by Aluna | Sep 27, 2010 | Press
Jacinto Zarabata sits in a suburban back garden in north London and unselfconsciously uses a stick to probe the inside of a gourd, which is shaped like a rather phallic mushroom with a bright yellow cap. The first member of the Kogi people of Colombia ever to visit...
