Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Tales from the top of the world


BRIEF LOGLINE

There are places in the world where life, as we know it, is changing; where Nature instead of protecting Man, is pushing him away. Places like the swamps and glacial valleys surrounding the largest glacier in the tropics, where a handful of herders and farmers face the unfortunate and often devastating effects of global warming.


SYNOPSIS

There is a society living at the top of the world -hundreds of men and women surviving at the very foot of the Quelccaya, the world’s largest tropical glacier, five thousand meters above sea level. Their existence depends on this body of ice, not only because of the water it provides, but because of the power of giving and taking life they believe the Quelccaya’s spirit possesses.


Over the last few decades, however, the unfortunate effects of global warming have started to become apparent. Quelccaya’s snow-capped peaks have turned into bare, dark rock mountains, and entire beds of streams have dried up. Locals believe the Quelccaya’ spirit is dying, angry at the indifference of men. Once his spirit dies, they will follow- because without glacier’s runoff water, life in the Andes is impossible. And when they leave, a cherished part of the world, an entire culture, will be forever gone.



PRODUCERS: Gabriela Yepes, Mauricio Melzi, Hans-Martin Liebing

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Gabriela Yepes

D.P.: Naiti Gámez, Antonio Rodríguez

CAST: N/A

GENRE: Documentary

EXP. RATING: N/A

FORMAT: HD

SHOOTING RATIO: 15:1

FUNDING SOURCES: In Kind Donations,Grants,Co-Production Funds

PROJECT STATUS: Development


GABRIELA YEPES- Director, Producer

In Peru

Maria Bellido 220, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru, USA

Phone#: 511.445.5549, 511.991.910577


In the USA

5900 North Hampton Dr Austin, Texas 78723
Phone#: 512.8250694
Email: buena_gaby@yahoo.com.ar


HANS LIEBING- Producer

1 University Station A0800

Austin, TEXAS 78712-0108

Phone#: +1 310 441 3844

Email: hans@cinigma.com


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