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Marmato
— BY Mark Grieco
status
Completed
type
Nonfiction
year
2014
director
Mark Grieco
producers
Mark Grieco, Stuart Reid, Harry Swartz-Tufle, Izabel Hoyos
Synopsis
An artisan gold-mining village in rural Colombia is on the precipice of opportunity and destruction as a Canadian mining company plans a massive regional investment. For five centuries these miners have lived in the lush Andes Mountains; the gold being their only source of sustenance. This intimate portrait follows the lives of the villagers as they struggle to preserve their centuries old way of life and confront the arrival of large-scale mining operations.