GUAMA - The Last Great Taino Chief of Cuba

Covering the last heroic 10 years of his life - as he led the greatest Guerrilla Warfare resistance to Spanish Imperialism & Colonialism in the history of Cuba.

This is the first major cinematic project Collaboration between the Eagle Clan Arawaks, the Caribbean Amerindian Development Organization, and the United Confederation of Taino People, on the Taino film project 'Guama' - about the last great Taino Chief of Cuba (of the Colonial era).

As you know, our company - First Nations Productions - is the only grassroots indigenous, owned and operated film production company in active operation in the circum-Caribbean area; and never before have indigenous peoples been able to make films about themselves in this manner focused on our often overlooked/glossed-over/forgotten great native leaders and heroes of yesteryear.

The full-length FEATURE MOVIE mature audience version (if ever done) will be the FIRST and only film ever made in the ancient Taino language - using a Taino dictionary actually produced by a Taino writer, with a music soundtrack from an actual Taino musician.

A 22-minute general audience TV DOCUMENTARY version film of Guana (made possible with the level of donations we received) has just been completed as of 9 January 2023 and will be posted for FREE viewing on this website here - AFTER it is officially screened at the Venezuela Embassy in Barbados.

We thank all the persons who joined us in donation support to become part of this history-making endeavor with their kind 501 C tax-deductible donation to our GoFundMe crowd-funding appeal that is now closed.

EVERY donor/contributor to this project - is publicly thanked in the end credits on screen at the end of the DOCUMENTARY film.

Films about many other often-forgotten heroic Indigenous leaders of the era of European invasion in the Caribbean region are planned (from the Greater Antilles to the Lesser Antilles, Taino, Kalinago, Garifuna & Maroon), but Caribbean Governments are very slow to recognize (and even slower to fund) the importance of unique projects such as these - and it's usually private citizens (often who don't even live in the Caribbean) who have more foresight and are willing to help bring these life stories to screen for the benefit of present and future generations of humanity.