By the Name of Tania (2019)
The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up in the clutches of forced prostitution when her initially hopeful attempt to escape the constrictions of her village goes wrong. Step by step, she is robbed of her moral and physical integrity. The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to a fate formally made nameless. With its powerful imagery, the girl’s traumatic odyssey embodies the destruction of life in a capitalist world in connection with horrific natural devastation.
Directors: Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris, Bénédicte Liénard.
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Tanit Lidia Coquiche Cenepo as Tania |
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Ismael Vasquez Colchado as Policeman |
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Yossimar Vietto Omnia as Rubén |
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Fiorella J. Aquila as Chuya Chaki |
| Directing | Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris | Director |
| Production | Julie Freres | Co-Producer |
| Production | Frank Hoeve | Co-Producer |
| Production | Camille Laemlé | Co-Producer |
| Production | Javier Packer-Comyn | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Bénédicte Liénard | Writer |
| Directing | Lali Madueño | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Peter Warnier | Sound Mixer |
| Editing | Marie-Hélène Dozo | Editor |
| Directing | Bénédicte Liénard | Director |
| Sound | David Vranken | Sound Editor |
| Crew | Virginie Surdej | Cinematography |
| Production | Katja Draaijer | Co-Producer |
| Editing | Bertrand Conard | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Kwinten Van Laethem | Sound |
| Production | Hanne Phlypo | Producer |
| Writing | Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris | Writer |