The Legacy of Christopher Columbus, A Short Account in Technicolor by LILI BERNARD

WARNING: Viewer discretion advised. Some scenes contain graphic reenactments of genocide, including dismemberment.

Full Title: The Legacy of Christopher Columbus, A Short Account in Technicolor: Memory One of Ceiba de Cuba, De Sus Raíces

World Premiere: 2011 Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival, Regency Academy 6 Cinemas, Pasadena, CA. Official Selection, Program 10 Featured Short, Sunday, May 15, 6:00 pm, 2011

Festival sponsored by Sony Pictures, The Walt Disney Company, Latin Heat Entertainment and California State University Los Angeles

Film Synopsis: A brief dramatization of Bartolomé de Las Casas' testimonial account of the Spanish Conquest of the New World

Category: Video-Art / Short Film / Docudrama

Running Time: 6:50 mins

Written, directed, filmed and edited by
LILI BERNARD

Afro-Cuban Batás Drums solo composed
and performed by
MELENA

All quotes taken from the book
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Written in 1545 by
BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS

DOLANN MARIE ADAMS
as the Siboney Mother

ZION BERNARD FERGUSON
as the Siboney Baby Girl

JOSHUA BERNARD FERGUSON
as Native Boy 1

URIEL BERNARD FERGUSON
as Native Boy 2

ELIAS BERNARD FERGUSON
as Native Girl and Elegua

ISAIAH BERNARD FERGUSON
as Native Boy 3

RAFAEL BERNARD FERGUSON
as Native Teenage Boy

CASEY HUGHES
as the Conquistador

RUBEN HORNILLO RODRIGUEZ
as the voice of Bartolomé de Las Casa

LILI BERNARD
introductory narration

MICKEY BERNARD FERGUSON
as the Wolf

Filmed on location in Los Angeles and Malibu, California

No one was hurt, injured or mistreated in any way during the filming of this work.

produced by
LILI BERNARD

in honor of the
ANCESTORS

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Native Americans
• Genocide
• Christianity
• Christ
• God
• Santeria
• Yoruba
• Orisha
• Ifa
• Cuba
• Latin America
• History
• Taino
• Arawak
• Siboney
• Afro-Cuban Drumming
• Social Studies
• Christopher Columbus

[TheTainoWarrior]

We r still here Taino pride!!!! We still exist!!! Fuck columbus's day!!!!!

[Koryuhoka]

@fuckrock67 - Those are not "niggers" - they are Natives. But you would not know this because you have no clue of REAL History. You have been mis-educated by the US fraud of an education system. Natives of the Americas ranged from Black Skinned to Almond Colored. Aside from that, the "niggers" you are referring to are - Slave-Ship Negroes - are Related to us Native People. We make up the Northern and Southern Kingdom of Israel - The REAL 12 Tribes of Israel, ready to be REDEEMED!

[badazzfeliciano]

@Koryuhoka RIGHT ON!

[Tanama55]

European domination, kill most with disease. Great warfare tactics don't take much brains to do that. Good job being infested!! thumbs up on that one!!

[Tanama55]

lets see civilized colonists coming over killing others with their diseases, hmmmm for being a more intelligent people, having better doctors and inventions, yet be disease infested compared to a native living in the jungle? something is wrong with that picture.  Many people in America are on meds. the us is the highest spent on meds. so get off the meds if your so awesome!

[Tanama55]

I have met more people who are non native that are so insecure about themselves and the proof is to bully and laugh at other people. It is childish and this includes claiming the Europeans won domination which was mostly by killing people off with their diseases. Now I find that disgusting considering they were supposed to be civilized? lol at least I am not diseased ridden

[Tanama55]

I want to say I am proud to claim Taino because of my family that passed it on for generations and not because people who are non Taino form an opinion or read what they like to decide who has been exterminated. I find if people are offended that Tainos and Natives are trying to tell a story of what happened and people say, "so?" Then it means people who are non native sometimes have more insecurity than we do. I am solid in my beliefs as a christian and solid in my identity.

[rudey7777]

pity you never get this REAL version in history lessons at school, what we learn at school is pure 100% disinformation

[11kuuipo]

@selenadelos: bless you but I can't pray for someone like like that, it is pure evil and I pray their days are numbered. The world will evolve and when they see that they panic.

[11kuuipo]

with the Taino drawing first blood. They didn't. The Spaniards took that as weakness and assumed they could enslave them. They left the Caribes, who practiced cannabalism, alone. Your racism gets you attention like shock jocks get ratings, the more outrageous and ignorant you are, the more attention you get.

[11kuuipo]

@Custer 264: Taino weren't cannibals, they resisted the Caribes and others, their spirituality was balanced. The life was to live honorably or die honorably which is why we resisted slavery, and why Columbus used that kind of violence to try to force submission. This is clearly documented in history, he was under the direction of Ferdinand and Isabela at the same time as the Inquisition, they were apocalytic Christians who meant to get to heaven by killing non-Christians, it had nothing to do

[Naumcaleb21]

Que pena que fuera representado con una imagen mulata y no con una imagen genuina indígena, con prendas de indios norteamericanos y peinados que jamás usarías los taínos, la idea está fantástica, pero de los personajes solo es fidedigno la imagen española, en otras palabras, quien escogió los personajes taínos es un fracaso.