UPCOMING IN-PERSON SCREENINGS
ART&TUR Film Festival
Oct 24 @ 19:00
Lousa, Portugal
Orlando Film Festival
Nov 1st @ 12:00PM
CMX Cinemas Plaza Café 12
(downtown Orlando)
St. Augustine Film Festival
Jan 12, 2025
Showtime - 6:00PM at the Gamache-Koger Theater
Central Florida Film Festival
Jan 24-26, 2025
Showtime TBD
Santa Fe Film Festival
Feb 19-23, 2025
Showtime TBD
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Executive Producers
LANCE HASTINGS
BRADY SKYE
Associate Producers
KRISTIN BIGALKE
M.A. HASTINGS
SCOTT VAUGHAN
Director, Narrator, Editor
Cinematographer
Motion Designer
Re-recording Mixer
BRADY SKYE
JUSTIN WIRTALLA
THOMAS COLLIER
TONY CROWE
Beyond the Ruins chronicles an American traveler's journey to deepen his understanding of Yucatecan Maya culture by sharing life with indigenous families, shifting the focus from the archaeological past to present-day traditions, and uncovering an ancient philosophy that could be the key to a better world.
In lak' ech; a lak' en
I am you; you are me.
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Filming has officially concluded! (February 5th, 2023)
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70 Minute Rough-Cut Finished (June 21st)
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Picture Lock + Color Finished (September 10th)
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Mixing Sound for Stereo + Dolby 5.1 Mixes Complete (October 28th)
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Current Stage: Film Festival Circuit 2024 - 2025
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Thank you for your support!
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More than three millennia old, Maya culture moves with grace before those who regard it as past history. However, today close to six million individuals form part of this ethnic group, heir to a great tradition that day by day re-creates its identity by incorporating new ways of understanding the world.
The Maya is not merely an archeological legacy, a snapshot frozen in time or an inanimate museum piece. It is also the sum of knowledge, resources, perceptions, attitudes, and relations guiding this collectivity, which is reproduced and connected to an economically uncertain, globalized world in constant transformation.
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(Grand Maya World Museum, 2022)
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