Afroecuatorianos y deporte en tres documentales ecuatorianos

Abstract

This research is based on the following question: How are Ecuadorian documentary film, sports and the presence of Afro-Ecuadorians related? In this study, we seek to understand the relationship between those documentary films that have sports (boxing and soccer) as their central axis, and the presence of Afro-Ecuadorian characters, through the narrative, visual and sound resources of cinema, as well as the media. that Ecuadorian filmmakers use to create these documentaries. The documentaries that will be analyzed are: La Tola Box (2014), by Pável Quevedo Ullauri; Next Round (2018), by Ernesto Yitux and Valeria Suárez Rovello; and Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian from Peñarol (2014), by Paúl Venegas and Nelson Scartaccini, because these are documentaries that have been made by and with Ecuadorians, because they consider the themes that are connected, such as sports, with documentary-type narratives. This work follows the methodology of research on the arts, which refers to the set of approaches, techniques and procedures that researchers in this field use to carry out studies and analyzes in the field of the arts. Finally, as a result of this research, it is expected to make a contribution to the theoretical debates on documentary film, an integral part of the world and film theory over time. These debates focus on fundamental questions related to the nature, purpose and aesthetics of documentary film. Likewise, about the presence of Afro-descendants in Ecuadorian films.