Argentina’s Positive News – Noticias Positivas, was recently awarded the Slow Food Latin American Film Prize, for their short film, Sacred Seeds.

The film tells the stories of Magui Choque Vilca and Mario Tapia, two experts in biodiversity who are working with others, in the Humahuaca Gorge, to recover and grow ancient varieties of potatoes. Sacred Seeds shows how hundreds of small-scale farmers in the Jujuy region, Northwest of Argentina, are working with these two men, to recover lost seed varieties and changing their methods of cultivation to care for the welfare of the Earth.

Sacred Seeds will be shown at inter-national festivals around the globe and opens at The Slow Food Film Festival in Italy in 2007. “Whenever we show the film, we are publicising the incredible job being done to increase bio-diversity and also the food security of Argentina’s Northwest,” explains Andrea Mendez Brandam, director of Sacred Seeds and Editor of Noticias Positivas. “We’re so thankful to everyone who helped us to create this film, especially the producer Juan Nicholas Broens and co-director Jose Becker.

The documentary celebrates the invaluable work of those who are cultivating our planet for the future.”