Wala

In February 1990, Lonely Planet writer Clem Lindenmayer and his partner Romi Arm departed the world´s most southerly town of Isla Navarino. The wild Patagonian trek they authored over the next three days is only reaching international notoriety today. Wala unpicks the modern day exploration fantasy, as the Instagram-age expectations of two people sent to document the island´s trails rub up against the lives of remotest homesteaders, the wisdom of whales and Isla Navarino´s 6000 year human history. The film was directed and filmed by Matt Maynard and produced by Chilean NGO Andeshandbook. Wala received generous support from Romi Arm and the Martín Gusinde Anthropological Museum. Wala has played with English subtitles from the high Andes of Chile´s capital in Santiago, to the Patagonian town of Puerto Varas. This is the first UK screening.

Sustainability Notes:

The film invites its audience to allow the land, its landscape, indigenous people and history to protagonise the retelling of their adventures.