Some elements are proposed for the interpretation of the content of the documentary short films produced by Fernando Valdivia, particularly Buscando el azul (2003), situating it on the stage of the Bora tribe. This study resorted to a qualitative methodology of basic, ethnographic and non-experimental nature, taking into account the techniques for the collection of empirical data, such as the interview, the textual stylistics (subject, subject, argument), the point of view; and the procedures (written textuality signings). This methodological instrument allowed making similarities and homologations of the content of the film and the tribal community, circumscribed to the Peruvian Amazonian universe, obtaining some thematic features that help to understand and explain the audiovisual sources.

We propose to briefly state the concepts that relate the melodrama to a way of being and to be in Latin America, how mass media -especially television- have adopted it and adapted it to constitute it in “the way” of narrating ourselves. We will provide a way to approach to fictional content in television that allows us to read the subjectivities and particular recognitions, always in tension with other fictions of diverse origins, whose productions have strong contributions of capital, talent, and expertise. This invitation, in short, is nothing more than a reflection that attempts to unravel the idea that there is “a large” global village of which we are part of undividedly, as opposed to the idea that, despite the great penetration of audiovisual productions from different latitudes, there are territorial identifications that contribute to this collective construction of Latin ...