Docuseek | Sepa, Nuestro Señor de los Milagros

SEPA, NUESTRO SEÑOR DE LOS MILAGROS is the name of an open air penal colony created in 1951 by the Peruvian Government within the national effort to colonize the Amazon territories by promoting agricultural practices amongst inmates in a 37.000 hectares piece of land in the jungles of Central Peru. The 1987 documentary directed by Walter Saxer is the only window into this experimental penal colony in Peru, where no camera has ever entered and little has been written about.

The New York Times | Glenn Kenny
"A provocative addition to the literature of incarceration."

The Last Thing I See
"An engrossing cinematic essay on captivity and detention, Sepa offers a different perspective, a different piece of a larger conversation, and feels pressing and urgent, as much today as in 1986."

The Film Stage | Jaime Grijalba

Boomstick Comics | Bryan Kluger
"Sepa shows that the traditional prison system isn’t working, with its mere existence being a protest. Recommended!"

Backseat Mafia | Rob Aldam
"Lost for decades, the newly restored SEPA: Nuestro Señor de los Milagros is a fascinating insight into a different way of treating felons....a film which is both deeply empathetic and thoroughly engrossing."

VIMooZ
"After languishing in a closet for more than three decades, this newly-rediscovered film is a unique documentary record of a bold and troubling experiment in criminal justice."

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Saxer, Walter (filmmaker)
Saxer, Walter (film producer)
Vargas Llosa, Mario (narrator)

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Camera, Rainer Klausmann; editor, Micki Joanni; music, Jindrich Konir.

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Penal Colony,Peru,Peruvian,Prisons,Criminal Justice,Incarceration,Colonization,Amazon,Archival Film,Walter Saxer,government policy,jungle,agriculture,South America; "Sepa, Nuestro Señor de los Milagros"; GOOD DOCS; Cultural Anthropology; Visual Anthropology; Latin American Studies; Documentary Films; Film History; Penology; Human Geography; History; Latin American History; Ethics; Political Economy; Poverty; Historical Sociology; Peru;

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