|
|
 |
|
|
Culture Wrap Studio
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Culture Wrap Studio, our in-house media arm develops, produces, supports and distributes entertaining feature films, documentaries and other media projects that
bring engaging cultural stories from all parts of the world to the big and smaller screens.
|
|
|
The media projects that we develop and produce under our own banner give you a look into a specific world culture or show you a person or project that aims to improves
cross-cultural relations. We bring you stories about wonderful international collaborative projects, or introduce you to visionaries who find unique ways of bringing people together. Our films are character driven and both entertaining as informative.
|
|
|
|
|
In development
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
COMPANION tailor-made DVD bonus materials
|
|
|
|
|
Culture Wrap’s production house offers studios and filmmakers to develop and produce unique cultural DVD-bonus materials for them, to accompany their feature film or documentary whose story is set in a certain culture or involves cross-cultural elements.
It’s a way for studio’s to utilize the reach they have with their movies to connect the world and to help improve cross-cultural understanding. Cinema with a cause, so to speak.
|
|
|
|
|
|
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward a documentary series
|
|
|
|
|
A documentary-series of stories of immigrants, who decided to go to another country to provide a better life for their families. As they grew accustomed to a new country and made a life for themselves, they decided to return to help the village or communities they left behind.
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Although mostly it is assumed that immigrants have moved forward by immigrating, most of the times, it is a major step back. Emotionally, as they are separated from family, friends and familiar surroundings, they find themselves struggling to get a foothold on new ground. Economically,their life may only improve as fast as they are able to learn the language and customs of their new land and if... they find a job.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Their journeys vary from being a compelling refugee story to trips made out of economic necessity. All of them share the knowledge they gained from traveling and living abroad and how they were able to use that knowledge to better the local communities in their native country.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Episode 1: Angel Alvarez grew up in La Paz with his mother. Two or three times a year he would go to visit his father in the country where he learned to speak Aymara, one of the native languages of the local Indians. In the 70s, Angel became the leader of the trade union for miners and led the national strike of miners in 1976.
|
|
|
|
|
Angel was arrested and taken to the torture chambers of the Ministery of Internal Affairs. Angel was taken to several concentration camps and ended up in one in Chile. In 1980, thanks to Amnesty International, International Trade Union (ILO), Red Cross International he came to Holland as a political refugee. In Holland, Angel learned Dutch in 3 months, because he felt and feels communication is very important.
|
|
|
|
|
|
After years of studying and working in Holland he returned to Bolivia in 1998. When Angel finally returned to Bolivia he saw that the liberal political parties had not administrated the country and government as they should have. The poorer have become poorer, the richer have become richer. Angel feels the need to help his people, not so much the miners but the people of Achocalla.
|
|
|
|
Angel is currently the local representative of the official representative for Van Malsen Foundation in Bolivia, based in La Paz, where he mediates between the actual work on site and the office in Amsterdam where the fundraising takes place. The aim of the Van Malsen Foundation is to improve the living conditions of children and inhabitants of small communities in third world countries. The VMF supports a number of projects in the Andes since April 2003.
|
|
|
|
|
|
More Media
|
|
|
|
|
|
