Experience Sundance: Meet the FIlmmakers #12

Meet Abel, a 11 years old shoe shiner from Mollendo, Islay province in Arequipa, Peru. His story is shown thanks to the eye and assertive questions of Alberto González, who found happiness and energy on this kid who loves his father, who takes care of him as his mother died, and his computer, which opens a world to him while he's father is in a far away city fixing shoes.

Abel has some advise to give here, so pay attention.

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Film & Animation

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• life
• in
• day
• sundance
• kevin
• macdonald
• feature
• film
• documentary
• abel
• tapia
• avelino
• peru
• alberto
• gonzalez
• arequipa

[li0n0fzi0n]

I am Peruvian and the government is trying to give poor people the opportunities to know technology... is hard to say but here are people who have never seen a computer in their life, of course is more important to eliminate poverty than anything but education is the key, education is the bridge that will connect them to the possibility of a better life

[conbatengineer]

@Pablohit i think the intentions of the department of education in peru was more of portraying the life of kid who in many ways represents how hard working peruvians are.

[djamorpheus]

I think the one person that disliked this video did it by accident... at least i hope so

[erickcd11]

The end of this video made some tears come out, I am peruvian, and I am proud of Cain Abel, and I just hope for him the best. I am really thankful for this project.

El final de este video me saco lagrimas, soy peruano, y me siento muy orgulloso de Cain Abel, le deseo lo mejor. Estoy muy agradecido por este projecto.

[elfnamedbuddy]

i just donated to wikipedia because of this kid

[trag89]

me gustas mucho cainabel no digas que tu vida es triste porque no lo debe de ser entiendo que tu mami no esta contigo fisicamente pero si esta en tu corazon y desde el cielo te cuida y te habre las puertas de una mejor vida para que estes feliz en honor a ella agradesele a la vida lo maravilloso de cada dia y ella te devolvera cosas buenas como esta que te estas haciendo famoso

[lepunk93]

I'm Peruvian and i'm glad that every certain time i read these stories about Peruvians overcoming different hard times ,it makes me feel that i can also feel pride of my country and its people.

Arriba Peru! Por una sociedad mejor!

[elcukky2012]

who sings those songs? The movie was fantastic by the way is really nice to appreciate life as we know it, but those song lift me. Thank you for the video and next time ill like to be part of it.

[conbatengineer]

@Ladyday49 There is laws but they are not enforced mainly because people live in extreme poverty and little opportunities to succeed. He says that he has to work in the place of his mom because at his young age he is already knows that if he dosent work, he will not eat/ survive.

[betluisa]

this is the one of the saddest clips in the whole movie ... they should have used more clips of this types of realities in the third world countries

[BelenEstevez]

a caramba mi paisano de Islay .Saludos =). yo tambien envie mi video .

[noxisvibrant]

Excelente!!!