Mónica Vásquez

Mónica Vásquez’s debut film focuses on the Indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian páramo and their struggle against the erosion threatening their lands. The film documents efforts to revive traditional agricultural practices, such as Inca farming terraces, alongside the adoption of new conservation techniques, in a defense of both a territory and a way of life against the human and environmental threats surrounding them.

Shot in New York, home at the time for over 400.000 ecuadorians, most of rural origin. Amidst a forced exodus that for the majority offered no return, the notion of "being ecuadorian" is reproduced as an attempt to avoid getting lost in anonymity.

Through multiple artistic phases of the tireless creative, Camilo Egas, the documentary pays tribute to the painter and his time.

Santa Rosa, a small town in Cuenca, is inhabited almost exclusively by women and children. The men have emigrated to the United States. The nostalgia for the absent is permanent. However, under the leadership of the women, the community group survives by asserting its social sense, despite the poverty.

Farmers of the Sierra region remain as settlers in the East, a new home, where they face the need to farm while preserving the delicate ecological system of the Amazon rainforest.

The story of autonomous and independent lives of a group of blind individuals who weave rugs in a workshop.

Mónica Vásquez’s debut film focuses on the Indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian páramo and their struggle against the erosion threatening their lands. The film documents efforts to revive traditional agricultural practices, such as Inca farming terraces, alongside the adoption of new conservation techniques, in a defense of both a territory and a way of life against the human and environmental threats surrounding them.

Shot in New York, home at the time for over 400.000 ecuadorians, most of rural origin. Amidst a forced exodus that for the majority offered no return, the notion of "being ecuadorian" is reproduced as an attempt to avoid getting lost in anonymity.

Shot in New York, home at the time for over 400.000 ecuadorians, most of rural origin. Amidst a forced exodus that for the majority offered no return, the notion of "being ecuadorian" is reproduced as an attempt to avoid getting lost in anonymity.

Through multiple artistic phases of the tireless creative, Camilo Egas, the documentary pays tribute to the painter and his time.

Through multiple artistic phases of the tireless creative, Camilo Egas, the documentary pays tribute to the painter and his time.

Santa Rosa, a small town in Cuenca, is inhabited almost exclusively by women and children. The men have emigrated to the United States. The nostalgia for the absent is permanent. However, under the leadership of the women, the community group survives by asserting its social sense, despite the poverty.

Farmers of the Sierra region remain as settlers in the East, a new home, where they face the need to farm while preserving the delicate ecological system of the Amazon rainforest.

Farmers of the Sierra region remain as settlers in the East, a new home, where they face the need to farm while preserving the delicate ecological system of the Amazon rainforest.

The story of autonomous and independent lives of a group of blind individuals who weave rugs in a workshop.

The story of autonomous and independent lives of a group of blind individuals who weave rugs in a workshop.

The indigenous community of Puesetus celebrates the reunion of the town with family members who migrated to Quito.

The indigenous community of Puesetus celebrates the reunion of the town with family members who migrated to Quito.

Other than the fragmentation of familial and communal ties, rural-to-urban migration leads into the assimilation of the urban lifestyle. However, for those with strong indigenous cultural traditions, this only happens in the surface.

Other than the fragmentation of familial and communal ties, rural-to-urban migration leads into the assimilation of the urban lifestyle. However, for those with strong indigenous cultural traditions, this only happens in the surface.