DraMAYAma - film by Jeanette Groenendaal with music by Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan
feature length film by Jeanette Groenendaal
with music by Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan
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DraMAYAma – a Space-Time Travel
A journey inside, an astrological cosmic dance beyond the end of the Maya calendar.
Follow Branly, Guatamalan timekeeper, 21st century Mayan, on his cosmic quest for meaning and reaffirmation of his Mayan spirituality through the echoes of an ancient civilization in the Vedic South of India.
Short synopsis
Experience a space time travel through past, present and future through the eyes of Guatemalan timekeeper Branly Gio Lopez, along rituals for the Planets of our Solar System still alive in the Dravidian Temples in the Vedic South of India. Ever since the ‘End of the Mayan calendar’ Branly has researched techniques and the meaning of Mayan Cosmology, trying to recover ancient rituals and knowledge painfully devastated by 500 years of colonization. During his vision quest he slowly recognizes deep roots in the echos of an old civilisation. Meanwhile the volcano erupts, the temple elephant dies and the turtle breathes home.
VIDEO TRAILER
| Year: | 2021 |
| Type: | Feature-length film (DCP 2K/4K, 5.1 Surround Sound| Netherlands ) |
| Description: | A space-time travel |
| Duration: | 90′ |
| Credits: | Director: Jeanette Groenendaal Producer: Jeanette Groenendaal Scenario: Jeanette Groenendaal Camera: Jeanette Groenendaal Starring: Branly López Quemé Editing: Zoot Derks & Jeanette Groenendaal Composers: Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan Color Correction: Jeroen Weeda Sound Post: Warning Studios Post PA/Design: Zilfer de Boer Co-Production: Ted Baijings Production: G-network Film Foundation Supported by: NL Film Foundation Spoken Languages: Spanish, English, Tamil, Sanskrit, Maya Subtitles: English, Spanish, Dutch |
Screenings (selection)
2022
ARFF Barcelona // International Awards, Barcelona, Spain
FUNBA foundation, Antigua, Guatemala
Dakshinachitra Centre, Chennai, India
Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
the 14th Jaipur International Film Festival, Jaipur, India
2021
Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts Awards for Decolonizing / Re-Indigenizing Media, Virginia, USA
Garifuna International Indigenous Filmfestival, Los Angeles, California USA
Anticensura FilmFestival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Toronto International Women Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina