Mayan Renaissance
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Genre Documentary Duration | 9/10 IMDb Director Dawn Engle Film series Nobel Legacy Film Series Country United States and Guatemala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language English and Spanish,
with subtitles Release date May 16, 2012 (2012-05-16) Writer Dawn Gifford Engle, Ivan Suvanjieff Initial release May 16, 2012 (New York City) Screenplay Dawn Engle, Ivan Suvanjieff Cast Rigoberta Menchu , Adolfo Perez Esquivel , Jody Williams , Rosalina Tuyuc , Javier Payeras Similar movies When the Mountains Tremble (1984) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mayan Renaissance is a 2012 American documentary film by director Dawn Engle about the Maya peoples of Guatemala and Central America. It describes the ancient Maya civilization, the conquest by Spain during the 1520s, hundreds of years of oppression, and the modern struggle by Mayans for self-determination and a Mayan renaissance.
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Its première screening at the United Nations Headquarters was on 16 May 2012 and its broadcast première on Colorado Public Television was on 6 June 2012.
The film contains interviews of 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchú, a Mayan indigenous rights activist and politician, and other Guatemalan and foreign contributors. It was awarded the Best Colorado Filmmaker Documentary Award at The Film Festival of Colorado in July 2012. The documentary is the first of a planned ten-part Nobel Legacy Film Series.
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Mayan Renaissance WikipediaMayan Renaissance themoviedb.org Mayan Renaissance IMDb