Agency:.Produced by Tall Stories Production for Channel Four in association with Filmeffekt A/S and the NFB.

Director, Dan Weldon ; producer, Ben Woolford ; script, Ben Morris ; camera, Fernando Riano ; sound, Ignacio Timenez ; editing, Carl Thompson.

Narrator, Julio Roca.

Recorded 1990.

Inspired by the people and landscape of Colombia's Banana Zone, Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez created the Buendia family and the village of Macondo, placing them at the centre of his acclaimed novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Among the events described in Marquez' novel is the 1928 Banana Strike and the subsequent murder of 3 000 banana workers by the Colombian Army. My Macondo sets out in search of Marquez' legendary village and the truth behind that incident. Is the fictional village of Macondo a real place with a real history? Did the slaughter of the strikers actually take place? In trying to answer these questions, My Macondo explores the nature of history and myth, and poses questions about fiction and truth.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).