Alongside the Monster
90 min | Spanish | Ecuador I Development
Directed by: María Fernanda Carpio
Produced by: Esteban Coloma G. & Grace Serrano Carmona
Executive Produced by: Marcelo Echeverría
Cinematography: Antonella Carrasco
Sound: Emil Plonsky
Production Companies: La Incre, Conejo Films & Plural Docs
Status: Late Development
This project participated in: RedEdoc, Nuevas Miradas, BoliviaLab
Alongside the Monster portrays the hidden advance of a gigantic mine through the lives of three farmers who were violently evicted. As the toxic waste pool grows unchecked, the monster continues to expand, with no one knowing how far it will go.
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The toxic waste pool looms larger every day over the Amazon rainforest, with no one, not even the government, knowing its true limits. Since Ecuador's first open-pit mine was built in the Tundayme territory, its inhabitants have lived under the weight of a presence that cannot be seen but that marks every aspect of their lives: the air, the water, the land, and their relationships.
In this landscape marked by silence, fear, and surveillance, the film unfolds like a quest: what does it mean to live with a monster for a neighbor?
Living with the Monster is a visual and political reflection on extractivism, dispossession, and resilience, told from the heart of the Ecuadorian rainforest.
