The Project
Media Fixer returns to Guatemala!
The program includes the shooting of a fiction-documentary on Mayan traditions and culture. The program is based on historical reconstructions of scenes, objects, ceramics… We’re joining the French team from One Planet Productions on location to coordinate all local aspects. Our work involves creating sets and replicas of various period objects, managing actors and extras…
In all, we coordinate more than forty people. Management of ceramic craftsmen, set designers, traditional clothing production, casting, make-up and dressing teams…
It’s a huge and exciting project, and one on which we’ve been working in coordination with all the French and Guatemalan teams for several months.
Each object, each item of clothing, each ceramic is proposed and validated by different archaeologists, notably from the CNRS. With the help of various sketches, the craftsmen with whom we work on site then reproduce as faithfully as possible everything that will enable us to recreate these great scenes of Mayan daily life.
Mayan culture
The Maya were an ancient civilization that occupied a territory that today corresponds to southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador. It is renowned for its great advances in agriculture, astronomy, art, architecture and mathematics. Along with the Incas and Aztecs, it is one of the most important pre-Columbian civilizations in Latin America. At its peak, between 600 and 800 CE, the population was close to 10 million. Cities such as Tikal (Guatemala) could accommodate up to 70,000 inhabitants.
The most emblematic archaeological sites of this civilization are Tikal, El Mirador (Guatemala), Chichén Itza, Tulum, Palenque, Uxmal and Calakmul (Mexico).
The team
Production: One Planet
Director: Jean-Baptiste Erreca
Photography, sound and lighting: Nicolas Le Gal
General coordination: Alain Kowalik
Guatemala coordination: Mediafixer Production / Alejandra Segura
