Marmato
Year | 2014 |
Starring | Conrado Trejos, Johann Bolaños, José Dumar Velez, Lawrence Perkes, Luis Gonzaga Diaz Granada |
Director(s) | Mark Grieco |
Genre(s) | Documentary Feature |
Runtime | 88 min |
Producer(s) | Daniel Green, Mark Achbar, Mark Grieco, Peter Starr, Stuart Reid |
Writer(s) | Mark Grieco, Stuart Reid |
Colombia is at the center of the new global gold rush, and Marmato, a mining town with over 500 years of history, is the new frontier. In its mountain lies over $20 billion in gold, but its 8,000 inhabitants are at risk of being displaced by an open-pit mining project planned by a Canadian mining company. Living on this mountain of gold is both a blessing and a curse.
This is the story of how the townspeople cope with a disturbing prophecy of change and takeover delivered by the company’s mining prospector: “You can believe in God all you want, but I don’t think he’s got too much to say about this mountain getting leveled.” Filmed over the course of five and a half years, the movie is a canvas of magic realism and the confrontation with globalized mining.