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Spanish Script [[file:soy y viento_script.pdf]]
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//(Information from the student viewer's guide)// The story is about a successful young businessman who gets orders to ravel abroad to secure a land deal. Occupied with other matters and unwilling to go at first, he finally accepts the assignment and soon finds himself in Chile, a country far from his native California. Here, in this Andean nation -- land of fertile valleys and soaring mountains, home to the condor, a place exotic and familiar all at once -- this young man regains and embraces values he had set aside years ago. He rediscovers the importance of loyalty to family and friends and learns that a person's past is part of his or her soul. He rediscovers the meaning of community and how people and their land may share a bond as strong as that between any two people. Most importantly, he comes to understand that from love, forgiveness is possible -- but it is not easily dispensed. Forgiveness must be earned.

//Sol y viento// follows Jaime "James" Talavera on his unexpected journey of self-discovery. Along the way, you will met Mario, the talkative personal driver who becomes Jaime's first friend in a new land. You will meet Carlos, the secretive administrator of the winery who is eager to sell his family's lands -- and those of others. You will meet doña Isabel, the matriarch of the Sol y Viento winery, and don Paco, the friend of the family who travels from Mexico to aid doña Isabel as she faces a crisis that threatens to alter an entire community{s way of life. Finally, you will meet the high-spirited Maria, the young woman who captures Jaime{s heart and mind. However, their mutual attraction may prove to be fleeting if Jaime does not grapple with the moral issues that confront him. As events unfold and the forces of nature conspire to draw the characters together, Jaime is forced to make the most difficult decision of his life.

One of the central themes in Sol y viento is the interaction between the forces of nature in the everyday lives of people. In fact, the sun and the wind each play crucial roles in the film, as if they were characters themselves. Thus, "Sol y viento" is not just the name of a family winery; it displays the embodiment of elements of nature that help move the plot along.

__**Characters**__

 * Jaime --** A successful businessman from San Francisco, who travels to Chile to finalize a deal with the Sol y viento winery.
 * Maria** -- A Chilean university professor and anthropologist who has always let her head rule over her heart.
 * Carlos** -- Proprietor and administrator of the Sol y viento winery who is working on the deal with Jaime's company
 * Isabel** -- Carlos' ailing other and, with her now-deceased husband, original proprietor of Sol y viento.
 * Paco** -- An old family friend of Isabelwho is called away from his native Mexico to help his friend in a time of need.
 * Mario** -- A taxi drier in Jaime's employ during his stay in Chile.
 * Traimaqueo** -- The longtime foreman of the Sol y viento winery.
 * Yolanda** -- Traimaqueo's wife and Isabel's primary caregiver.
 * Diego** -- Maria's student assistant at the university and at anthropological dig sites.

Who are the Mapuches?
Throughout the course of the film Sol y viento touches upon the plight of the Mapuche people and their struggle to retain their ancestral lands and maintain harmony with the Earth. The Mapuches are an indigenous people whose roots are found in southern and south central Chile and date back to thousands of years before the Europeans’ arrival in the Western hemisphere. In Quechua, the language of the Mapuche, mapu means land the che means people, essentially making the “people of the land.” This connection to the earth is deeply rooted in the spirit and culture of the Mapuche people.

Since the 1880s, when the nations of Chile and Argentina began to appropriate ancestral Mapuche lands, the Mapuches have strived to retain these lands and, later, to make their struggles known to the world at large. In Sol y viento, this struggle is shown by the attempt of outsiders to purchase Mapuche lands in order to build a large dam to flood the region and produce cheap hydroelectric power.

 One of the Mapuche characters in the film, the machi, is a spiritual leader of her tribe. At the beginning of the film, we see her telling a tale to a group of adults and children. As her tale unfolds, we witness how the lives of Jaime, María, and others are intricately woven into her story and how the forces of nature conspire to bring resolution to the conflicts with which they are faced.

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