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Women miners in red helmets search for ore on the slope, with an Andean lagoon behind

Jose Adrianzen, Director · Producer

  • Best Documentary, TITAN International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia · 3rd edition · 2025
  • Best Screenplay, 13.º Noida International Film Festival, Noida, India · 2026
  • Best of Festival, Docuvision International Film Festival, Lewes, Delaware, USA · 2026
  • Special Mention, 13.º Noida International Film Festival, Noida, India · 2026

Documentary37:022KPeru, 2025

In Arequipa, María Reyes is a pallaquera, sifting for ore in the rock others have already discarded. In Puno, Julia Pomalique faces the barriers of a culture that cannot picture a woman in the mine. In Madre de Dios, Vilma Contreras defied the stereotypes and is still standing.

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The idea

Toldfromwithin

A woman miner in a yellow helmet looks into the camera

Films about what stays hidden, wherever it is. Stories of people almost no one films, told from the inside.

Films
Three women miners eat lunch on the rock under a dusty sky

Documentary · Peru · 2025 · 37:02 · 2K

“They are not only looking for ore.”

In Arequipa, María Reyes is a pallaquera, sifting for ore in the rock others have already discarded. In Puno, Julia Pomalique faces the barriers of a culture that cannot picture a woman in the mine. In Madre de Dios, Vilma Contreras defied the stereotypes and is still standing.

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TITAN 2025Best Documentary
Noida 2026Best Screenplay
Docuvision 2026Best of Festival

21.º International Labour Film Festival · The Workers Unite Film Festival · London Vision Film Festival · LISBIFF Lisboa Indie Film Festival · Cine Invisible “Film Sozialak” · FIMMER · Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes · ImoIFF Creatives International Film Festival · Cinego Shorts · Shorts on the Move · Film Hour · Bodhak Studio · Cinematic Luxe Indie Showcase · 20.ª Muestra Cine + Video Indígena · 21.º International Labour Film Festival · The Workers Unite Film Festival · London Vision Film Festival · LISBIFF Lisboa Indie Film Festival · Cine Invisible “Film Sozialak” · FIMMER · Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes · ImoIFF Creatives International Film Festival · Cinego Shorts · Shorts on the Move · Film Hour · Bodhak Studio · Cinematic Luxe Indie Showcase · 20.ª Muestra Cine + Video Indígena ·

Photography
Cranes at the port of Callao under an orange sky
Jose with Shipibo friends in the street
Open sea at dawn
Facades with balconies in Barcelona
A ship’s bow and a seagull in the port
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Echo

Not yet released

Short film · psychological thriller · 13:12 · 6K

“One house. One secret.”

About Echo
An older woman seated on a sofa in half light
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