On a Venezuelan island sit the ruins of the first Spanish city in South America, abandoned with the depletion of its pearl beds. A government plan to create a tourist site there stalled, and archeologist Jorge Armand finds deeper meaning in this refusal to acknowledge the nation’s fraught history. 

 

Directed by Jorge Thielen Armand.

Flower of the Sea (Flor De La Mar)

2015 VE, CA 24 min
Festival Year: 2016
Types: Documentary, Short
Topic: Climate Change, Freshwater & Oceans, Global Perspectives