Ecuador Releases First Movie in Kichwa With Indigenous Actors

[Judi Lynn]

Ecuador Releases First Movie in Kichwa With Indigenous Actors
Published 1 July 2017 (5 hours 25 minutes ago)

The movie highlights the resistance of an Indigenous community struggling to protect their land against the interests of a mining company.


Ecuador's first movie produced almost completely in Kichwa with Indigenous artists hit theaters Friday, telling the story of campesinos defending their land.

The movie, “Killa: The Road to Resistance,” portrays injustices suffered by those who oppose an illegal occupation of their ancestral territories by a mining company and the fight to reclaim the community's natural resources.

Production for Killa, which means "moon" in Kichwa, began in 2012 and was filmed in the Andean province of Imbabura, north of the capital city of Quito.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuador-Releases-First-Movie-in-Kichwa-With-Indigenous-Actors-20170701-0007.html

[COLGATE4]

1. It's "Quechua", not "Kichwa"

[Judi Lynn]

2. COLGATE4: "1. It's "Quechua", not "Kichwa""

Wikipedia:

Kichwa (Kichwa shimi, Runashimi, also Spanish Quichua) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (Inga), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated 1,000,000 speakers.

The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo Highland and Imbabura Highland Kichwa, with 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 speakers. Cañar Highland Quecha has 100,000–200,000 speakers; the other dialects have from 10,000 to 20,000 speakers each. Kichwa belongs to the Northern Quechua group of Quechua II, according to linguist Alfredo Torero.

Overview[edit]
Kichwa syntax has undergone some grammatical simplification compared to Southern Quechua, perhaps because of partial creolization with the pre-Inca languages of Ecuador.

A standardized language, with a unified orthography (Kichwa Unificado, Shukyachiska Kichwa), has been developed. It is similar to Chimborazo but lacks some of the phonological peculiarities of that dialect.

The earliest grammatical description of Kichwa was written in the 17th century by Jesuit priest Hernando de Alcocer.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kichwa_language

Los Nin-Katary - Identidad - Video clip- Ecuador - Otavalo 2009

Another video from Los Nin, mentionend on the Wikipedia page re: Kichwa, below:

TNAZ y LOS NIN secuencia del documental RUNAS