A man fights for trees, gets called terrorist. Ecuador's quiet war has no explosions.
On April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten months in prison for the crimes of “rebellion, sabotage and terrorism”. A few days later, the National Mining Company entered the area accompanied by a squad of at least 200 policemen to carry out studies related to the Llurimagua mining project, in the Íntag cloud forest. Javier with I, Íntag collects Javier Ramírez's reflections after his release, his feeling of condemned innocence, the pain of living in a divided, busy and frightened community, with its social fabric destroyed.
Direction
Pocho Álvarez lets Javier's silence speak louder than any protest chant.
Cinematography
Íntag's misty forests become co-conspirator and casualty.
Director
Pocho Álvarez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Íntag's resistance spans decades; this 2014 crackdown was part of a pattern where Ecuador's 'progressive' Correa government criminalized indigenous and environmental opposition.
The title's lowercase 'i' in Javier's name signals erasure—how political prisoners become bureaucratic case files.
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