Aluna (2012)

Anecdotes

Aluna is a 2012 feature-length documentary film. It is a sequel to the 1990 BBC documentary From the Heart of The World: Elder Brother's Warning. The first documentary showed an ancient Kogi tribe civilisation who emerge to offer their concern for people of the modern world. Younger Brother is urged to change or suffer environmental disaster. After offering the warning, the Kogi retreat to their community hidden in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

Production

Originally the budget was set at £270,000. Alan Ereira got Bruce Parry interested in the project and Parry met with the Kogi, who agreed to the project. With Parry involved, the BBC offered £180,000 and Indus Films offered a further £20,000. However, when Bruce Parry became 'committed to another project', the offer of funding from the BBC was withdrawn. Therefore, Alan Ereira had to seek alternative funding.

The Kogis had their own indigenous film crew, enabling the film to include previously unrecorded holy sites and practices that other film crews had been prohibited from seeing. Throughout the collaboration, the Kogis exercised their autonomy while the film's director, Alan Ereira, looked forward to see what the indigenous crew had recorded. The Mamas took charge of what was going to be filmed and consulted Aluna through divinations.

The collaboration between the indigenous crew and the European camera crews enabled Alan Ereira to bring a camera operator and a sound recordist to work with their indigenous counterparts in Colombia.

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