Song of the Butterflies, The

[Played Dec. 11 via Eventbrite and available on other various VOD platforms.] Amazing cinematography and soundtrack highlight Nuria Frigola Torrent's poignant, fascinating, captivating, insightful, thought-provoking, 65-minute, 2020 documentary that showcases talented, creative, tobacco-smoking, indigenous Peruvian painter Rember Yahuarcani, who lives in Lima and is from the last two remaining tribes of the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation, and his imaginative, gorgeous, colorful artwork as he follows in the artistic footsteps of his painter father and sculptor mother, and when he needs a stimulus to inspire fresh paintings, he turns to the spirit of his grandparents Martha and Griegio, ancestral myths and stories, family history, and visiting his encouraging and supportive family in the Pebas Amazonian region of Colombia.
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