The Enchanted Drum

An ancestral story based on the poem Ño Jose Pérez by the Colombian poet Guillermo Valencia Salgado (Compae Gollo) from the book El Sinú y Otros Cantos. A father tells his son the story of the enchanted drum: the rituals, the magical sounds which take over the soul of the person who plays it.

Click on CC for subtitles in English.

Cast:
Father and Enchanted Drummer: Álvaro Llerena Martínez
Santi: Santiago Llerena Mendez


Direction y Production: Lilián Pallares and Charles Olsen – antenablue.com
Screenplay: Lilián Pallares
Camera, drawings and animation: Charles Olsen
Assistants during filming: José García, Loraine Narváez de la Hoz and Concha Cardona
Edition: Lilián Pallares and Charles Olsen

Music and sounds:
Drum: Álvaro Llerena Martínez
Colombian flute: Shangó Dely, shangodely.com
Theme of poem 'Zumbidos': Shangó Dely, shangodely.com
Frog and crocodile: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, www.fws.gov
‘Cornfield, insects and birds’, Olivier Nijs, www.soundtransit.nl
‘Baker Nacional Park – Frog’, Caspar Ström, www.soundtransit.nl
‘Tobacco pigs’, Aaron Ximm, www.soundtransit.nl