I’M FROM THE ANDES [Soy Andina]
Peru
DIR/PROD
Mitch Teplitsky
Peru/US, 2007, color, 72 min.
In Spanish and English with English subtitles.
NOT RATED

PRESS RELEASE
After 15 years in New York,Nélida Silva returns to her birthplace in the Andes to fulfill a lifelong dream of hosting the Fiesta Patronal––a week of dance, music, and ritual honoring the town’s patron saint. But Neli's changed, and so has the village. What's it like to go back to the Andes when you've become a New Yorker? After meeting Neli, Cynthia Paniagua, a dancer raised in Queens by a Peruvian mom, embarks on her own Peruvian journey, determined to know the real Peru and understand its art forms. This documentary is an exuberant cross-cultural road trip, propelled by traditional music and dance rarely seen outside the country. (note courtesy of Latin Beat)
American Film Institute Inter-American Development Bank The Ibero-American Cultural Attachs Association