Cocalero Alejandro Landes Bolivia/Argentina/USA Documentary, 2006 92 min., HD, Color Spanish/Quechua with English Subtitles Metropolitan 14 Wednesday, April 25, 7 PM All Audiences

Bolivia, 2005: An Aymara Indian and union leader named Evo Morales launches a seemingly impossible bid to become his country’s first indigenous president. A must for anyone interested in Latin America’s present and future, this fly-on-the-wall documentary reveals the personalities and politics behind one of the region’s most astounding stories.

Alejandro Landes was born in Brazil and grew up in Ecuador. He graduated from Brown University in 2003. After a stint writing for a U.S. newspaper and a weekly television show, Landes traveled to Bolivia to shoot Cocalero, his first feature film.

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Producer: Julia Solomonoff, Alejandro Landes,

Ellyn Daniels

Screenwriter: Alejandro Landes

Cinematographer: Jorge Manrique Behrens

Editing: Kate Taverna, Jorge Manrique Behrens,

Lorenzo Bombicci

Music: Leo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman