KIPI MISSION

MISIÓN KIPI

By Sonaly TUESTA

FILMSTOFESTIVALS - as DISTR ARGENTINA / PROD

Social issues - Completed 2024

A teacher in the highlands of Peru created a female robot during the COVID-19 pandemic. He trains it and humanizes it to share learning with children in the communities he visits.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Road movie, Documentary
    • Countries
    • COLOMBIA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 81 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sonaly TUESTA
    • Writer(s)
    • Sonaly TUESTA
    • Producer(s)
    • Sonaly TUESTA (Ayni Producciones SAC)
    • Synopsis
    • During the pandemic, rural teacher Walter Velasquez, a long-time science and technology teacher, creates a female robot using computer scrap and names it Kipi. Most of Walter's students dropped out of school in the face of Covid 19 and returned to their communities. Neither connectivity nor access had those villages because of how dispersed were those locations. Kipi becomes the teacher's assistant and supports the educational efforts of its creator, taking the learnings to the homes and communities.