Documentary "U-TOPOS" to be released.

The Jesuits succeeded in creating a utopia in the Amazon. The Jesuit missions in Paraguay helped the Guaraní Indians to improve their living conditions and to create an internal market among the different villages and peoples that inhabited the jungle.

Producer and director Vicente Herrero has made this documentary to tell the lights and shadows of the Jesuit presence in America. It relates the relationship of the Jesuits with successive states over three centuries and its expulsion from the crown of Spain. The documentary had the collaboration of the Spanish TV (RTVE) and a local TV of Valencia. The director prepared it for a year. The recording lasted 12 weeks in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Spain and Portugal. Some Jesuits collaborated: Enrique Climent SJ, Bartomeu Melià SJ or Wenceslao Soto SJ and the film has been documented in the Jesuit archives in Spain, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay. The documentary also includes interviews with Portuguese and Spanish historians and will be released at the University of Comillas by November 23rd.

See trailer: https://vimeo.com/285573752