| Praise for Kief
Davidson & Richard Ladkani’s
THE DEVIL’S MINER
One of the Village Voice & New York Daily News
top picks of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival
{WINNER- Tribeca Film Festival - Emerging Filmmaker Special
Mention}
{WINNER- Hot Docs Film Festival - FIPRESCI Award &
Best International Documentary - Honorable Mention}
{WINNER- Chicago Film festival - Silver Hugo Award- Best
Documentary}
{WINNER- Woodstock Film Festival - Best Documentary}
{WINNER San Diego Latino Film Festival - Best Documentary}
“Artistic magic, breathtaking! A stunning portrait
of the Vargas brothers, their world, and the spiritual
beliefs that shape their lives.” - Entertainment
Weekly
“A study in courage ...an unforgettable journey
through hell under the earth, where Satan
is worshipped as king. Straight-as-an-arrow filmmaking
raises this docu above the
crowd...exceptionally beautiful.” -Variety
“Fascinating, powerful...brilliantly portrays (Basilio
and Bernadino’s) claustrophobia and
trepidation, moving through tight, candle-lit tunnels
as they run to avoid passing carts, lifting up
their awed faces as they listen for hazardous blasts and
staring at the eyes of the devil.”
-DOX Documentary Film Magazine
“The world so beautifully photographed in “The
Devil’s Miner” – with its festivals,
folkloric dances and folk art devils – seems conjured
from the magic realism of Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, except for the unbelievably harsh odds
facing the boy miners who
narrate the tale.” -L.A. Times
“It’s obvious that the talented filmmakers
have absorbed their Bunuel...Kudos to the
filmmakers, who risked their own lives...to bring Basilio’s
remarkable story to the world.
Somehow, The Devil’s Miner is also formally beautiful,
a work of cinema, why our jury
unanimously awarded it with our FIPRESCI prize.”
-International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI)
“Fascinating and gripping...Richard Ladkani’s
cinematography is breathtaking, a real
achievement.” -New York Cool
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