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2005 | Color | 72 min

The Tailenders explores the work of an evangelical missionary group, Global Recordings, known not only for their numerous conversions, but also for their recordings and translations of over five thousand languages since their inception in 1939. Working in regions where indigenous communities face crises caused by global economic shifts, and using amazingly efficient low-tech audio recording devices, the missionaries seek both the material and ideological means and meanings of these linguistic translations and spiritual transformations, while linking the expansionism of evangelical Protestantism to that of global capitalism


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Horne; Adele
Script: Horn; Adele
Production: Horn; Adele
Photography: Chian; Leo, Hagan; Shana, Horne; Adele
Sound: Colbert; Maile
Music: Ziporyn; Evan
Participation year at FICM: 2006

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