Gringo Trails (2013)
- Directed by
- Pegi Vail
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary looks at how mass tourism changes communities in Thailand, Bolivia, Mali, and Bhutan. It shows both the good and bad effects on local people and their cultures.
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What happens
Gringo Trails is a 2013 feature-length documentary film directed by anthropologist Pegi Vail of New York University. The film follows the positive and negative impacts of travel and tourism on numerous communities across the globe, including Thailand, Bolivia, Mali (Timbuktu) and Bhutan, documenting how communities thrive, adapt, or deteriorate in the face of mass tourism, "one of the most powerful globalizing forces of our time." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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