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Belize Documentary Film Course Coming

Belize Documentary Film Course Coming | Cayo Scoop!  The Ecology of Cayo Culture | Scoop.it

Another documentary film course is going to be offered soon.  The last one was done during the Summer of 2013, and many of the student documentaries took place in Bullet Tree Falls and around Cayo.  The one about the Green Iguana Conservation Project was great.  This time, they'll be teaming up with Cayo's Wildlife Institute.

"WE WILL BE OFFERING NEW WILDLIFE INTRODUCTION TO DOCUMENTARY FILM COURSE SOON, AND COLLABORATION WITH WILDLIFE INSTITUTE http://www.wildlife-institute.com/ MORE INFO. AND PROMO VIDEO COMING SOON, HERE IS OUR LAST CLASS REFLECTION VIDEO."

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Cayo Film Festival Weekend

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The Cayo Film Festival is tomorrow and Sunday at the Cayo Welcome Center.  They've been uploading stills from the interviews that took place last Summer from the Belize Documentary Field Film Course, where most of the documentaries came from.


Albums include:

Mr. Canto Maya Shaman

San Antonio Women's Coop

Maria Garcia

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Modern Maya Documentary

Sandro Teck, a well known artist from Bullet Tree Falls, is highlighted in the documentary about the Maya in the modern day.  Scott Saiz, one of the New Mexico State University students who took the Belize Documentary Film course over the Summer, did this wonderful documentary, which not only features Sandro and his family, but also manages to capture some of Belize's wildlife at the same time.  Xunantunich is shown in the documentary too.  They even go spearfishing in the Mopan to catch some fish.  Well worth the watch.

 

"Documentary about a Belize Artist and his way of life in 2013"

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Belize Documentary Film Course

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The New Mexico State University Documentary Film Course is in full force in Cayo.  The students have been around Cayo this week, filming the subjects of their documentaries.  They visited Lucas Island in Bullet Tree Falls.

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Documentary Field Film School - 2014

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This year's Documentary Field Film School started a few weeks ago, and the students have been having a great time learning about film in Belize.  Last year, they did Bullet Tree Falls, with this year they are doing San Antonio,  and the films will be shown at the next Cayo Film Festival.  They had a screening and an Open Mic night at the Soul Project.

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Green Iguana Conservation Project Documentary

Matthew Valdovinos, one of the NMSU film school students that did the Belize study abroad documentary film course, has released the documentary about the Green Iguana Conservation Project.  It starts out with Humberto Requena and Eddy Estrada defining what the project does.  Interesting fact: the San Ignacio Resort Hotel has been able to raise the survival rate from around 6% to around 60% in the hatchery.

 

Daniel Velazquez, one of the cofounders of the project explains how the project is sustainable, so it will stand the test of time, and shows some footage from the project in 1999.  The documentary also has interviews with Miriam Roberson and the Belize Wildlife Referral Clinic's Dr. Isabelle Paquet Durand,  and if you ever wanted to know how to clean an iguana, you can learn it by watching.  This video is well worth the watch.

 

On Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/77741424

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NMSU Film Course Reflections

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Daniel Velazquez created a short video documenting the New Mexico State University film students and their interaction with people and nature around Cayo and Belize during their documentary film course.  They shot a lot, and learned a lot.  It's a well done, feelgood video, and you'll see some faces you know from around Cayo.  

 

"NMSU film student are the first international students to take course, design by Emmy award winning natural history film makers Carol and Richard Foster, in Collaboration with local artist film maker Daniel Velazquez and award winning film maker Illana Lapid, film professor at New Mexico State University"

 

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