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The Gold Machine

Synopsis

A creative collaboration with Ashéninka producer Gregorio Santos Perez and English writer Iain Sinclair, the film follows their ancestors' footsteps to the Peruvian jungle. Their journeys flip between continents and centuries as the narrative is wrested by the Ashéninka people, to produce an original mediation – part documentary, part fiction – on fate, family and the search for Eldorado.
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Details

Year
2022
Type of project
Features
Running time
92 min
Format
HD
Director
Grant Gee
Producer
Janine Marmot
Co-Producer
Gregorio Santos Perez & Katja Draaijer
Executive Producer
Lisa Marie Russo
Screenwriter
Iain Sinclair
Director of Photography
Grant Gee
Composer
Leyland Kirby The Caretaker

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Hot Property Films Ltd

47 Saint Charles Square
London W10 6EN
Tel: +44 (0)208 969 7997

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