Minerita

Minerita is a 2015 Spanish short-documentary film about three women working the Potosi mines in Bolivia. The documentary was well received by critics and earned widespread critical acclaim. Minerita was shortlisted with nine other documentaries from 74 entries submitted to the 88th Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Subject category,[1] but was not nominated as a finalist.[2]

Minerita
Directed byRaúl de la Fuente
Produced byAmaia Remirez
Written byRaúl de la Fuente
Music byMikel Salas
Production
company
Kanaki Films
Release date
  • April 17, 2015 (2015-04-17) (Tribeca Film Festival)
Running time
28 minutes
CountrySpain/Bolivia
LanguageSpanish

Plot

Minerita is the story of three women—Lucía (40), Ivone (16) and Abigail (17), who work as night watch women in the Cerro Rico mining district in Potosi, Bolivia.[3]

Awards
  • Social Impact Media Awards - Best Short Documentary Director.
  • 28th Goya Awards - Best Documentary Short Film.
gollark: We still pay attention to them a lot and treat them seriously.
gollark: I mean, they're mostly heuristics for stuff which vaguely made sense in the savannah 100000 years ago.
gollark: Privacy, because apparently Humanity doesn't care about it.
gollark: Hmm, so nutrient paste with flavouring, then.
gollark: That doesn't really make it "rational" to eat that instead of nutrient paste when we are no longer constrained that way as much.

See also

References
  1. "10 DOC SHORTS ON OSCAR'S 2015 SHORTLIST". Oscars.org. October 26, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  2. "Documentary (Short Subject) – Oscar Nominees 2016". January 14, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  3. "International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam - Minerita". International Documentary Film Festival. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
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