#Repost @betterworlded ・・・ Screenshot from the newly released #empathychallenge documentary, I AM FRANCISCO, set in Santiago de Atitlán, Guatemala. In Francisco’s words: “The hours as a fisherman are very early and the work is very hard. When I was younger, we would leave at 1 o’clock in the morning and return at 6 o’clock in the morning. After we’d return, we would head out to the farm, or campo to check on our coffee plants. Working on the campo has always been much more enjoyable for me, and this is what I like to do most now. I feel very grateful for my campo, which is a small plot of land directly across the lake. It takes me a little over an hour to get to my campo -- about 45 minutes to get across the lake on my kayak, then a fifteen minute trek up through the jungle. I go there a few times a week to check on my coffee plants. It is one of my favorite things to do -- aside from eating my wife’s patin, of course! Patin is a typical Mayan meal that originated many, many years ago - right here in Santiago! It is a delicious, thick tomato-based stew that is made with dried small fish from the lake and many spices. It is cooked for several hours then wrapped up in a large raw plantain leaf. Because of the ingredients and leaves, patin keeps very well without refrigeration and is easy for travel. The dish itself came to be through the Mayan farmers, my ancestors, who journeyed up these very mountains to tend to their crops there and needed nourishing food that they could bring with them. Since their land was usually far from home, often times the farmers would leave very early in the morning and stay for days at a time. The Mayan women created patin, as they could prepare it ahead of time and package it in the leaves, sending the men of the family on their way with nourishment for the days to come. In Santiago we are proud to say that it was the first form of “take away” or “to go” food - invented by the Mayan people!” Check out the new #shortfilm here : http://bit.ly/IAmFrancisco director/cinematographer @waynewandering writer/producer @becz43 and editor @allaroundartsy (at Lake Atitlán) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq79B9Ugphl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fihi4mehf70a
