Sharon Sherman and Cheryl Lewman's ethnobiographical film documents Zulay Sarabino, an indigenous Ecuadoran woman who negotiates multiple identities in a globalized world as a cultural leader, single mother, and local entrepreneur. Embodying both the new and the old, the communal and the transnational, Zulay's remarkable story is one of adaptation, acculturation, struggle, and personal transformation. Focusing on the celebration of the fiesta of Inti Raymi, Whatever Happened to Zulay? explores the interrelationship between tradition and innovation, the local and global, and will appeal to those interested in cultural change, folklore, ethnicity, gender, Latin American communities, indigeneity, oral history, and religion.
Whatever Happened to Zulay? is a sequel to Jorge Preloran's film, Zulay Facing the 21st Century. Whenever people see the film they always ask, "Whatever happened to Zulay?" This film seeks to answer that question.
