Ruma Simi + Director Q&A (free screening)

RUMA SIMI + Director Q&A
Not Rated, 81 min

Fernando, a Peruvian single father, sits in an audio-recording room with his young son Dylan, recording voices together from Spanish into Quechua — their indigenous language. Fernando provides careful but spirited direction to Dylan, who nails the specific intonation. What seems as a playful game between a father and son is actually a treasured creative hobby for Fernando, who has dubbed online clips of many animated movies into Quechua. As a voice actor who’s always had an interest in crafting voices and dialects, Fernando uses his platform as a radio host in his native Cusco to create content in Quechua, enabling this language to thrive and not be forgotten. “Our language Quechua,” affirms Fernando, “is like life itself.”

All too quickly, Fernando’s online hobby of dubbing film clips goes viral — and it spurs him to pursue his most ambitious goal yet: fully dub Disney’s animated “The Lion King” into Quechua. The creative hobby now becomes a real cultural endeavor.

Winner, Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director, 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. DIR Augusto Zegarra; PROD Claudia Chávez Lévano, Paloma Iturriaga.

In English, Quechua and Spanish with English subtitles.

Post-film discussion with director Augusto Zegarra. Part of the Raising Voices Film Series.

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