On 30 September last year, President Michelle Bachelet signed the bill creating the Department of Indian Affairs, which is gave a clear sign that native peoples have become increasingly important in recent times, while recognizing the fundamental contribution that had pre-Columbian cultures in building a society that represents the background to what is now our world.
Today this reality is portrayed in a documentary produced primarily in the Region of Coquimbo, a major cradle of civilization as are the diaguitas. Sergio Olivares Contreras in conjunction with the representative of the Association Elquinos Diaguitas "Llastay" Mary Campillay Chariot, rescuers expressions that may still survive in this town originates in the area.
Over the years, the issue of these cultures has become a topic of discussion in various fields of national life which has led to agreements on some issues and disagreement on others.
It is in this context that ovallino filmmaker Sergio Olivares, through the documentary "The Question Diaguita", seeks to create a window that allows reveal a different reality to what we know as culture Diaguita itself, this time from the viewpoint of cultural heritage and their descendants struggle to keep alive the essence of the people who inhabited the area between the rivers and Choapa Copiapo.
However, Olivares, who in 2009 was made a Bicentennial Project creditor, funded by the Regional Government, the creation of a documentary on farming communities in the Fourth Region of Coquimbo, stresses that the initiative of the audiovisual recording Diaguita is in preproduction, which has not been without its difficulties, primarily for cost reasons. "Currently we are only limited progress by the lack of support from those who could assist in the funding of this documentary, which seeks not only be nothing but a reflection of regional identity. Do not be a problem if interest from companies regional investment in work done by regional filmmakers with their own songs of our culture or simply do not consider it a good business, "he says.
"The truth is that a region's cultural identity is strengthened when there are tools to delve into every aspect of the culture of a people. This is what I personally pursue my work. The town is much more than Diaguita arrowheads or mug duck exhibited in a museum is a living culture that still beats deep in this land, "says the filmmaker. For anyone wanting to may view video and notes on of this issue:
http://lacuestiondiaguita.blogspot.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzlIuRRzedQ
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