Photo pending
Season 1 · Episode 1 · Pilot · In development
Hilos (working title)
Irma Morales Salas · Breña, Lima
Goal: on request
Fundraising
See the door
Documentary series · Season 1: 10 episodes in Peru
Every door has a name, a face and a memory.
Poster: Juanfran · Pexels License
Knowledge that each teacher chooses and teaches in depth on camera.
In South America there is knowledge that still lives in people. In each episode of Puertas Sagradas, a woman or man teacher chooses some of that knowledge and teaches it in depth on camera. The ritual opens the door; what remains is what is learned.
Puertas Sagradas is a documentary anthology with no narrator. Season 1 travels through Peru in 10 episodes: coast, highlands and rainforest. In each one, a teacher chooses what knowledge to share and teaches it on camera: how it is done, not just what it is called. About 10 minutes per episode (10 to 15), in three parts that each stand alone. Only the pilot is numbered; the order of the others will follow funding.
The heart of the series
The ritual opens the door. The knowledge is what remains.
Ritual is the setting, not the story. What the series offers is what remains afterwards: practical ways to live with more attention to the body, to other people and to the land. These practices promise no cures and do not stand against medicine.
Disconnection, anxiety and a loss of meaning are felt in Europe too. This is not about copying other people's rituals, but about reconnecting with what is essential. It is the path opened by «Saberes Milenarios», the previous series by Asociación Wayra ONG.
How each teacher teaches
Each teacher chooses what to give
None of them reveals everything. Each chooses what to teach and explores it in depth on camera: how it is done, not just what it is called.
No sermons
Knowledge is shown in practice, not preached.
No theory
Each with its how: gestures and steps you can repeat.
No sampler
A few practices, explored in depth. The teacher decides how many.
Each episode has its knowledge poster, in print and for social media, with the knowledge the teacher chose to share, each with its technique. Its content is set after filming and with the teacher’s express approval.
Season 1
Map of doors
Episodes
Hilos (working title)
Irma Morales Salas
Breña, Lima
In developmentSee the doorPhoto pendingTitle to be confirmed
Vidal Ayala, known as Abuelo Vidal
Ollantaytambo [TO BE CONFIRMED]
In developmentSee the doorPhoto pendingTitle to be confirmed
Vidal Ayala, known as Abuelo Vidal
Ollantaytambo [TO BE CONFIRMED]
In developmentSee the doorTitle to be confirmed
Ucayali
In developmentSee the doorPhoto pendingDoor in research
Location to be confirmed
In researchSee the doorPhoto pendingDoor in research
Location to be confirmed
In researchSee the doorPhoto pendingDoor in research
Location to be confirmed
In researchSee the doorPhoto pendingDoor in research
Location to be confirmed
In researchSee the doorPhoto pendingDoor in research
Location to be confirmed
In researchSee the doorPhoto pendingDoor in research
Location to be confirmed
In researchSee the doorPhoto pendingDoor in research
Location to be confirmed
In researchSee the doorPhoto pending
Season 1
Three doors, told through what is taught
Coast · Episode 1 · Pilot
Hilos (working title)
Irma Morales Salas
What she could teach: ayni, or reciprocity, health as balance and cosmovivencia (provisional; she will choose).
The change she proposes: moving from understanding knowledge to living it.
See the doorHighlands · In development
Title to be confirmed
Vidal Ayala, known as Abuelo Vidal
Could teach what Vidal calls Andean breathing and the Chakana [TO BE CONFIRMED with Vidal] (provisional).
Keeper of the Chakana; teaches at Inti Ayllu, the community he founded, in Ollantaytambo [TO BE CONFIRMED].
See the doorRainforest · In development
Title to be confirmed
Ucayali
Could teach his knowledge of forest plants (provisional).
A Shipibo plant medicine practitioner in Ucayali.
See the doorRest of the season: in research.
For the teachers
A practical, concrete benefit for those who teach
Visibility
Their profile on wayra.ong, so that more people get to know them and seek them out.
Endorsement
Always with their permission; each teacher approves the text and can withdraw it.
Return
A copy of the episode and a screening in their community.
See her profile
Full Season 1
Goal: on request · Contribute to this season's fund
Each teacher is revealed as their episode receives support. Your donation uncovers their story, their knowledge and their contact.
Season 1 · In development
Title to be confirmed
Vidal Ayala, known as Abuelo Vidal · Ollantaytambo [TO BE CONFIRMED]
Fundraising
See the door
Season 1 · In development
Title to be confirmed
Ucayali
Fundraising
See the door
Seven further episodes: in research.
How to take part
Cross the door
You can fund the season, an episode, a part or a piece, or a thematic contribution (subtitling, screenings or educational guides). Each finished episode, with its teacher’s approval, is the best argument for funding the next one.
Visibility for partner organisations
Each partner organisation’s logo appears at the beginning and end of the videos and in all the series’ deliverables, never over faces.
It also appears in the credits, in outreach materials and on the project website, and the organisation receives progress and impact reports.
Options and amounts: on request.
Ethical care
Each teacher decides what is filmed and what is shown, reviews the cut and can withdraw ritual scenes. Asociación Wayra ONG does not sell or appropriate this knowledge, and no support grants any rights over it.
Contact
Asociación Wayra ONG
kika@wayra.ong · wayra.ong
Choose the door you want to open
Your donation goes to a specific episode and its counter. Only the total goal of each door is shown.
- 1 · Choose the door and the amount
- 2 · Complete your donation
Donations are not tax-deductible: Asociación Wayra ONG is not covered by Spanish Law 49/2002.
Produced by Asociación Wayra ONG · Director: Rodrigo Balaguer Sáenz