Emerging of kichwa cinema

Abstract

This article is an approach to the different cinematographic expressions produced by the indigenous Ecuadorian communities. After pondering about a long history of representations of the indigenous made by the white and the mestizo. Ecuador is looking at the birth of a cinema which confronts the outmoded indigenism, but sometimes it also repeats the basics precepts of it without questioning them. We are looking at the birth of a cinema that is trying to find its own voice and ways of representation.