Series Disappearing World Series
Director Bruce MacDonald, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
Country/Production UK
Release 1987
Length 52 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Guatemala / America
Order No RAI-200.282
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The documentary shows, how Cakchiquel Maya of a village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, adapted to recent changes. It emerges, that the lake has become a favoured spot for holiday homes, and that the village has been subject to streams of tourists in the last decades. The filmmakers while they are officially welcomed and given permission to film, in practice many people hid their faces, would not co-operate and even throw stones. The film team tried to find an explanation of the Maya hostility to the camera.
