1. Even The Rain: Using Film To Teach About Water, Media and Human Rights
Nicky Koschmann
Education Outreach Coordinator
Einaudi Center for International Studies

2. Questions to ask about any media text:
Who made it? (Who paid for it?)
Who is the target audience?
What is the content?
What is the form?
What is the message?
What else do we need to know?

3. 1. Who made Even The Rain?
Icíar Bollaín – Director Paul Laverty – Screenwriter Juan Gordon – Producer

4. 2. Who is the target audience?
Audience is primarily European, American
Reporter: How was the reaction to the film in Bolivia?
IB: Unfortunately, they haven’t seen it yet. We want to bring it over, and we have been screening the film for Bolivians who live in Spain and they were very pleased. The Bolivian Ambassador was moved and very emotional because this was a very important part of Bolivian history.

5. 3. What is the content? Columbus’ discovery of the new world
Story of the Dominican friar, Montesino
Filmmakers making a film in Bolivia
Bolivian water wars of 2000
Friendship between a Bolivian Indian water activist and a Spanish film producer

6. 4. What is the form? (Or how is the content conveyed?)
Film within a film structure allows the parallel stories to be told and the comparison of contemporary oppression of Indians in Bolivia to be compared to historic oppression by colonialism
Visual strategy
Audio strategy

7. 5. What is the message?
Oppression of Indians in Latin America is still going on
How Indians are represented in films
Film industry contributes to the oppression
Water rights are part of a continuous struggle for many people in the world

8. 6. What else do we need to know?

9. What are the details of the Bolivian water wars?
wars-and-change-from-below-david-solnit-reports-back-on-bolivia/

10. How are Native people represented in contemporary media. Why

11. 7. Supplement with other media (but ask the same questions of each)
Current Chilean protests against water privatization: P9G_SUdLBni0DA&index=3
Current protests in Rome:
P9G_SUdLBni0DA
b media collective: Water Is Life:
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Reconsider Columbus Day

12. More links:
monday
indigenous-peoples-history-instead

13. Have U Ever by Desiree Garza