Araya

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"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

Margot Benacerraf

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Margot Benacerraf ,Pierre Seghers

Writers

Henry Nadler

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31-08-1959

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90 min

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Budget

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31-08-1959

Release Date

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90 min

Runtime

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Status

Spanish

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Margot Benacerraf

Margot Benacerraf was a Venezuelan film director. She studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris and is best known for her 1959 award-winning film Araya. Founder of the Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela in 1966 and its director for three years consecutively. She was a member of the board of directors of Caracas Athenaeum, and in 1991, with the help of the writer and patron of the Latin American cinema Gabriel García Márquez, created Latin Fundavisual, the foundation in charge of promoting Latin American audiovisual art in Venezuela.

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