A Miner's Luck: Scramble

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Scramble

My mother just sent me an email asking about my legal status in Bolivia. This was my response:

At migrations they told me I need a NIT (tax ID number) to get residence, and at the Tax office, they told me I need a residence card to get a NIT. Fortunately the fine for overstaying your welcome for a year is less than the cost of the paperwork for a yearlong residency....

- chuck

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A Short Description of the Film

Once upon a time in America, there were hundreds of small mines and thousands of hardened men who knew how to work them. Today these men, who kept their families fed on a little luck and a lot of hard work, are celebrated as the history of what made America great. But there aren’t very many of them left in America.

A Miner’s Luck will follow one of them to Bolivia, in search of something that looks like mining from his youth – a world in which hundreds of small mines nurture the ingenuity of thousands of hardworking miners. The epicenter of “Latin America’s turn to the left” seems a strange place to look for America’s roots. But in the small towns and mining centers of Bolivia, he finds families and communities with striking similarities to the mines he remembers from his youth.

For more information about this than you ever wanted, please feel free to download the treatment at:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/12/977104/AMinersLuckInt.pdf