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THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAINA D O C U M E N TA R Y B Y A L E X A N D E R H I C K
FLIPPING THE COIN
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Logline 04
Synopsis 05
Director statement 07
Info & Crew 10
Protagonist & Production 11
Festival participacion & Awards 13
Trailer & Website 15
Biography, filmography Director 16
Biography, filmography Crew 17
Support 18
Contact 19
INDEX
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LOGLINE
The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colom-bias highest mountain. While on the surface this ancient culture appears not to have changed in centuries, Thinking Like a Moun-tain reveals a much more complex reality.
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SYNOPSIS
The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colom-bias highest mountain- the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. They draw from this unique environment a sustained and singular spi-rituality. For the first time in their history the Arhuacos invited a filmmaker, Alexander Hick, to visit the most remote communities and sacred sites in the heartland of their territory. „Thinking like a Mountain“ tells the story of resistance and preservation of nature, which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier; from the Arhuacos encounter with the first colonising whites, to the ho-mecoming of an Arhuaco guerrillero following the laying-down of arms by the FARC.
While on the surface the Arhuaco culture appears not to have chan-ged in centuries, this film reveals quite the opposite. The cosmo-gony specific to this territory and its people has been preserved due to the self imposed isolationism of the Arhuacos, but a solemn history of violence is progressively drawn out through the film brou-ght on by the changing political and spiritual landscape. In a thou-ght provoking and pointed manner the film explores the colliding of two cultures and portraits indigenous life in the 21th century where isolationism seems to vanish, just like the glacier held sacred by its people.
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DIRECTOR STATEMENT
The Sierra Nevada is the highest coastal mountain in the world and home to an incredible verity of ecosystems. Most people aren’t even aware of this place and yet it connects us all: The Sierra Neva-da de Santa Marta is the heart of the world, so the Arhuaco elders. If it stops beating, earth is only a dying body.
I first learned of the Arhuaco community and their strong relation-ship with the ancestral land after moving to Colombia in September 2015. What at a first glance seemed to be a untouched paradise turned into a landscape full of history, resistance and violence. I as-ked myself how the community, which still lives in relative isolation, interpret the changing climate which they witness everyday?
My first meeting was with the Arhuaco Governor Rogelio Mejia, who stepped out of a bullet proof car, protected by two body-guards. I knew a little bit about the work of the Arhuaco community in the Sierra Nevada but this fist meeting was against my expectati-ons. Soon I learned that the struggle of the Arhuaco community in protecting their land and spreading their message has been a sa-crifice costing the life’s of many. I continuously attended meetings
of the Arhuaco community elders learning about their situation, and gradually earning enough trust to propose my project to them. Another year would pass by before I was allowed to begin filming.
I am a lifetime mountain climber, nevertheless the western moun-taineering idea of reaching a summit and proving human strength over nature was never the purpose of my visit and the film. Quite the opposite, our adventure was to establish a bridge of knowled-ge and to get a insight of the Arhuacos stunning work and relation-ship with the mountain and the world.
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Feature length: 91min
TV length: 52 min
Production year: 2018
Shooting format: Sony 4K
Screening format: DCP, Digital format, Bluray
Aspect ratio: 1:1,85
Soundformat: Dolby 5.1
Written and directed: Alexander Hick
Camara: Immanuel Hick
Production: Ana Lozano
Edit: Julian Sarmiento
Music: Christian Castagno & Nacho Drault
Translation: Ati Gundiwa Villafañe I Maria Carmen Villafañe I Luce-lly Villafañe I Cayetano Torres I Jordan Troeller
Sounddesign: Andreas Goldbrunner
Colorgrading: Claudia Fuchs
Titledesigne: Ester Sanchez
Consulting producer: Gunter Hanfgarn I Maxim Holland
Consulting edit: Marta Andreu
INFO CREW
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A Flipping the coin Films production in coproduction with Univer-sity for Television and Films Munich supported by FilmFernseh-Fonds Bayern and Freunde und Förderer der HFF München.
Flipping the coin Films
University for Television and Films Munich
Freunde und Förderer der HFF München
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
LfA Förderbank Bayern
Jwikamey Torres I Bunkey Torres
José de la Cruz Torres
Mamo Bernandino Suarez I Cornelio Suarez I Alfonso Suarez
Norma Suarez I Tobía Chaparro
Rogelio Mejía Izquierdo
Margarita Villafañe
Nawingumu und Familie
Javier Torres I Mercedes Torres Joel Norena Serna
Mamo Efraín Torres
PRODUCTIONPROTAGONIST
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FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION
Visions du réel, Schwitzerland, 2018
Human Rights Filmfestival Inconvenient Films, Lithuania, 2018
Astra Filmfestival, Rumania, 2018
Autrans International Filmfestival, France, 2018
Cervino Cinemountain Festival, Italy, 2018 Mountainfilmfestival Graz, Austria, 2018
Firststep Awards, German Filmacademy, 2018
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany, 2019
Festival Internacional de Cine Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 2019
Ethnocineca Filfestival, Austria, Competition Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award, 2019
Royal Anthropological Institute Filmfestival, UK, 2019
Muestra de cine de derechos humanos, Guatemala, 2019
Encuentros del otro cine, Ecuador, 2019
Festival of Transcultural Cinema, Germany, 2019
Dokfest Munich, Nominated for the documentary talent award, Germany, 2019
AWARDS
German Human Rights Filmaward, 2018
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TRAILER AND WEBSITE
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/263967430
Website: http://thinkinglikeamountain.org
Instagram: flippingthecoin & alexander_hick
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BIOGRAPHY, FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR
Alexander Hick studied Fine Arts with Prof. Kosuth in Munich and in Barcelona and Documentary Films in Munich (HFF) and Mexico City (CCC). He is IFMGA certified mountain guide and cofounded Flipping the coin, a Berlin based artist collective. Scorched Water was his first feature documentary. His films and media installations successfully screened at International Film Festivals (Zurich Filmfes-tival, Morelia Filmfestival, Visions du reel, Leipzig Dokfest, Filmfest Munich, DokFest Munich, FICCI Colombia) and museums (Macba, Haus der Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne).
Documentary:
Scorched Water (Atl Tlachinolli), 2015, 78min.
San Agustin, low tide in the plastic sea, 2012, 72min.
Short and Essayfilms:
Saint Germain, 2010, 17min.
Day after day, 2010, 14min.
Blaueis, 2009, 8min.
Make no way the way, 2007, 29min.
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BIOGRAPHY, FILMOGRAPHY CAMARA
Immanuel Hick, Germany, 1982, specializes in shooting documen-taries and reportage. His films have been screened in Museums like Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Pinako-thek der Moderne Munich. Currently he is DoP for the Grimme- awarded ARTE TV- Show „Streetphilosophy“.
BIOGRAPHY EDITOR
Julián Sarmiento, Colombia, 1984, graduated in Fine Arts, as film director and film editor. During his training, he made more than six short films in Mexico. He was first assistant editor in two fea-ture films Ilusión Nacional (Olallo Rubio, 2014) and Retrato Pánico (Olallo Rubio 2015) and edited the feature documentary Atl Tlachi-nolli (Alexander Hick 2014) and several documentary episodes for french TV.
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SUPPORT
CONTACT
Flipping the coin Films
www.flippingthecoin.de
+49 177 9632983
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