About film

A Spanish film crew comes to Bolivia to make a revisionist epic about the conquest of Latin America - on the cheap. They cast local boy Daniel as a 16th-century native. When the make-up and loin cloth come off, Daniel sails into action protesting his community’s deprivation of water at the hands of multi-national corporations. When riots break out in Cochabamba, protesting excessive fees for water, production is interrupted and the convictions of the crew members are challenged. With ample irony, Even the Rain explores the effects of Spanish imperialism, still resonating some 500 years later in the continued struggle against oppression by indigenous people.