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Two health workers climb a dirt path past a red tuk-tuk in the Guatemalan highlands

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NGO · highlands · Guatemala

Wuqu’ Kawoq

A film with Maya Health Alliance in the Guatemalan highlands. Health workers walking to the house. The clinic is the path, and the language the work is done in.

Wuqu’ Kawoq means medicine on the Maya calendar. The film follows indigenous staff into kitchens, yards, and rooms where care actually happens — not a recut of a conference in the capital.

Goal

Follow the work to the door. A film for an organisation whose staff already live in the field — so the picture matches the programme.

Outcomes

A look at the road, the house, the visit. English delivery. The cut made at home. A film the organisation can put in front of people who will never take that path.

Directed by
Brendan O’Brien
For
Wuqu’ Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance
Location
Guatemala highlands

Stills

  • A woman in a red cardigan and woven wrap, standing on a woodland path
  • Two health workers walking a forest trail, one carrying a Maya Health Alliance bag
  • An older Maya woman in profile, in embroidered clothing
  • Clothes on a line outside a hillside house, a dog lying in the shade
  • A health worker using a phone and cuff during a home visit
  • A loaded chicken bus on a mountain road, seen through a windscreen
  • Volcanoes rising above a valley of morning mist
  • Two women walking down a steep lane between houses
  • Women cooking on a wood stove in a timber kitchen
  • Two boys indoors, one looking toward the camera
  • Two women walking up a cobbled street between concrete houses
  • A home visit: three women in a small room with folded blankets on the bed