Radio Nacional de Colombia delivers to Colombians an audiovisual work, which will be broadcast on May 17, with an environmental, historical and cultural focus, on these ecosystems seen through the eyes of peasants who live in different places in the town of Sumapaz.
“Maestro Páramo” is a documentary project made up of two micro-documentaries and a clip for social networks, as well as a sound documentary that will be broadcast this Monday, May 17 at 10 am on the 57 stations of Radio Nacional de Colombia.
It was recorded at 3,800 meters above sea level in different points of the largest moor in the world: Sumapaz, such as the Los Colorados lagoon and the Patos lagoon, entered by Sibaté. Different peasants, who live in the town, were in charge of giving their perspective on caring for the environment.
“The moors are a fundamental ecosystem for our territories, in them there is a symbiosis between the vegetation, the animals and the people who inhabit it. Through Maestro Páramo we will learn about the wisdom that exists in this environment that produces water and life, from the hands of the peasants of the region who seek to protect it while rescuing their traditions and ancestral knowledge, ”says Eveling Rico, web editor of Radio Nacional.
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Those peasants, custodians and mourners of the páramo, protagonists of this production, shared their day to day with the team of filmmakers , made up of seven people, who, with high-tech equipment, among those film cameras, led lights and drones, achieved capture the beauty and grandeur of nature.
They are Deogracias Jaime, empirical trainer of the children of the páramo; Rosalba Rojas, leader of the group Las Frailejonas, who through art teaches about the value of its páramo; Guillermo Villalba, tour guide and protector of the moor in front of national and foreign visitors and the flora and bird biologists, Yulieth Ávila and Néstor Espejo.
For Leonel Vásquez, production advisor, “Maestro Páramo is a relational approach between the different forms of life that exist in a unique biological scenario that is enabling the lives of many people, in which there is a synergy between culture and nature. ”.
And it is no wonder, the Sumapaz páramo is one of the 36 páramos complexes that Colombia has and has 335 thousand protected hectares , an icon of a biological reserve worldwide. There are three departments that cover this biomass space and therefore it is a scene of life, freedom and the environment.
Follow the news of El Espectador on Google NewsFor Guillermo Villalba, farmer and tourist guide who participated in this production, “a call is made to the institutions so that we understand, in one way or another, that if we do not take care of these life scenarios we will be condemned to space without water and that is very sad for current communities and future generations, because they will have to face the need of not having this resource ”.
The Frailejonas
For her part, Rosalba Rojas, from the cultural group Las Frailejonas, made up of women who, through verses, music and theater, managed to create awareness in the community to protect the páramo and the species, starting with their own husbands who gave up hunting. deer, highlights a different aspect that is played in Maestro Páramo:
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” The páramo is really getting old and older adults see with sadness that due to a lack of opportunities, young people here are going to look for other directions , but it is also the lack of empowerment because here there are also opportunities,” perhaps this is why The Frailejonas also work on transmitting ancestral knowledge to the girls of their community, such as weaving.
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The recording of this documentary project took three weeks and was under the direction of Juan Carlos Cárdenas , from the production house EnMarca, who says that the team made a journey of more than five hours “with teams on their shoulders, with a thousand hearts with fatigue from the pressure of height. The moor was unpredictable, and we had to ask for permission to let us capture its beautiful scenery, fauna and flora. When he did not want to be recorded, in a matter of seconds he left us completely covered by a layer of dense fog ”.
He assures that during the recording the common feeling was that “we are nothing before the greatness of Mother Nature. The value of each species and each thing is that it is put there, in a functional way, so that we have that valuable resource that is the water that reaches our homes. However, our lifestyle impacts this source, which is running out day after day. We are not realizing that future generations will not be able to admire this benefit ”.
Despite the harshness that the production implied, being exposed to a cold bone breaker due to the 2 degrees Celsius temperature that also burned cheeks, the mud up to the knees from the constant rain and cold lunches inside a natural cavern, this documentary project was worth it all.