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Annette Mangaard

Recently I went to the Andes to a little village called Puesto Say where I met Benita a shepherdess who lives at high altitude. This 77 year old woman lives in an adobe hut without electricity or running water. She spends her days scampering up mountains chasing her herd of llamas, sheep and goats and cooks all of her meals over an open fire. This is history, but in our world I believe it is revolutionary. Her relationship with mother earth (Mama Pacha) was one of respect and a shared sense of responsibility. She gives back to the earth every day. Perhaps we can look to this as a revolutionary example.

Annette Mangaard has written, and directed fifteen films in more than a decade as an independent filmmaker. Her one hour documentary, GENERAL IDEA: ART, AIDS, AND THE FIN DE SIECLE (for TVO, Bravo, SCN, Knowledge) about the celebrated Canadian artists collective premiered at Hot Doc’s in Toronto then went on to garner accolades at the Vancouver International Festival, DOCSDF Mexican Documentary Film Festival and Asolo International Art Film Festival in Italy. Other recent films include INTO THE NIGHT, a film noir of the night produced by the National Film Board of Canada, as well as THE MANY FACES OF ARNAUD MAGGS, a one hour documentary on the celebrated Canadian artist/photographer Arnaud Maggs for TVOntario. Mangaard was recently lauded with a retrospective of her art films at the Cinemateque Palais de Kino in Buenos Aires, Argentina.