The Return

Synopsis

It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country. As people test positive for COVID-19 in the community, some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle. Disconnected from school, friends, the internet, and work, one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest. The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum, and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over. As COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the planet, the family reconnect to their ancestral ways, but as news arrives that Ecuador’s lockdown will end soon, will the family choose to return?

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Eriberto Gualinga
Production	Producer	Nina Gualinga Marc Silver
Camera	Director of Photography	Eriberto Gualinga
Editing	Editor	Emiliano Battista
	Colorist	Jack Jones
Writing	Story Consultant	Pocho Álvarez
Sound	Sound Mixer	Emma Butt
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