Portrayals of Andean and Amazonian Indigeneity in Children's Films

In summer 2020 Honors Spanish Majors Cara Satullo, Emily Montenegro, and Juhee Park presented their analyses of Andean and Amazonian indigenous cultural representations in children’ films for the Center for Latin American Studies Virtual Coffee Webinar Series. Students developed their projects as part of the Spring 2020 SPAN 4565H course, "Indigenous Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Latin America" taught by Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman. Students presented entirely in Spanish for a broad-ranging audience on the movies Pachamama, The Road to El Dorado, The Emperor's New Groove and Dora and the Lost City of Gold with special participation of Américo Mendoza Mori (UPenn), who was the Quechua Language Consultant for Dora and the Lost City of Gold. 

In addition to their webinar presentation, Cara (OSU class of 2021, majoring in Public Policy Analysis and Spanish, minoring in Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife), Emily (OSU class of 2022, double majoring in Film Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Spanish), and Juhee (OSU class of 2021, majoring in Computer Sciences, Spanish and Mathematics) generated critical-analytical essays in Spanish and PowerPoint presentations that are now included as enduring K-12 teaching resources in CLAS’s Teach the Andes K-12 Resource Repository.

You can access a recording of the webinar here (Access Password: 1D?#F+@&)

The Road to El Dorado and Dora and the Lost City of Gold are available for viewing on Amazon Prime Video. Pachamama and The Emperor's New Groove are available on Netflix.
Cara and Emily's papers can be viewed below (written in Spanish):

Student Analyses, Presentations and other online resources related to this topic are below: