Photo pending
Season 1 · Open door to sponsor · In development
Hilos (working title)
Vidal Ayala, known as Abuelo Vidal · Ollantaytambo
Goal: on request
Fundraising
See the door
Documentary series · Season 1: 10 doors in Peru · in research
Every door has a name, a face and a memory.
Project film still (Tawantin, Abuelo Vidal) · author to be confirmed
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 doors: 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. Each season has 10 doors: 10 episodes of 10 to 20 minutes, in three parts that each stand alone. No episode has a fixed number: the order is tentative and the first door to be funded opens the series. Seven seasons are planned; Seasons 1 and 2 are in research, and the co-production is confirmed for Season 1 only.
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.
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 pendingMore Season 1 doors
The remaining doors (up to 10) are in research. They will be announced once their teachers have given their consent.
In research
Season 1
Open doors to sponsor: what each one teaches
Coast · Open door to sponsor
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 · Open door to sponsor · 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
Maestro Antonio (Shipibo-Konibo, Ucayali)
Could teach his knowledge of forest plants (provisional).
A Shipibo plant medicine practitioner in Ucayali.
See the doorSeason 1 · tentative order
Open doors to sponsor
Listed by how far along each one is, not by episode number: the first door to be funded opens the series. Each season has 10 doors: 10 episodes of 10 to 20 minutes each. Seven seasons are planned; Seasons 1 and 2 are in research, and the co-production is confirmed for Season 1 only.
- Coast · Breña (Lima)
Irma Morales Salas
«Hilos» (working title)
In developmentConsent: in process. See the door - Highlands · Ollantaytambo (to be confirmed)
Vidal Ayala, known as Abuelo Vidal
Title to be confirmed
In developmentConsent: in process. See the door - Rainforest · Ucayali (Shipibo-Konibo)
Maestro Antonio (Shipibo-Konibo, Ucayali)
Title to be confirmed
In developmentConsent: in process. Details in progress. See the door - Highlands · Q'ero Nation (Cusco)
Maestro Kenko
Title to be confirmed
In researchConsent: in process. Details in progress. - Rainforest · Yavarí (Loreto)
Matsés knowledge keeper
Title to be confirmed
In researchConsent: in process. Details in progress.
Rest 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
Your support makes it possible to tell their story, with their consent.
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 more doors: 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
[email protected] · wayra.ong
Choose the door you want to open
Your donation goes to the Season 1 Fund or to the door you choose. 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.
Producer · co-production confirmed for Season 1 onlyReference: Albatros Panamá (opens in a new tab)
Fundraising and legal entity in Spain: Asociación Wayra ONG, which supports and promotes the series