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Echo of the Mountain, originally known in Spanish as Eco de la montaña (English: Echo of the Mountain), is a 2013 Mexican portrait documentary of the great Wixarika(Huichol) artist Santos de la Torre who lives in near anoymity in the western Sierrra Madre and directed by Nicolás Echevarría. It was produced and distributed by Esperanto Films.

Synopsis
Echo of the Mountain presents a look into the life and work of Santos de la Torre, a great Huichol artist who, like his people, lives in oblivion. The audience will know the misfortune of an artist who, despite having made a great mural for the metro station Palais Royal at the Louvre, lives isolated and ignored in his country. This film will follow Santos during his pilgrimage to Wirikuta, where he will ask the gods for permission to create a new mural. It will take the audience on a journey across 385 miles of the "Peyote Route," which is in danger of disappearing unless it receives the protection of UNESCO. Film will also follow Santos' creative process during the making of a new mural that will illustrate the history, mythology and religious practices of the Huichol people. The oblivion in which Santos lives reflects the abandonment of the Wixárika (Huichol) people, whose sacred route is threatened by economic develpment.

Behind the scenes of Film
The film is tribute Santos the Huichol artist, who had not been paid for the mural that now hangs in the metro station of the Louvre Museum in Paris, Echevarría makes another valuable supply of one of its thematic universes: indigenous religious vision and their creative processes and rituals. Now, the main theme of the documentary is to create a similar work as wixárika Paris. In fact, "the mural is the script of the film; is a codex, to be shaped and built by the cosmic vision of Santos (and his family), the film builds in parallel, "says Nicolás Echevarría experienced. In your dreams, ideas and thanks to the wisdom of Hikuri (peyote, sacred plant for this village), Santos created the mural specifically for the film. He is touring with cameras Echevarria Wixárika sacred places. To make the journey was "asked permission at various holy sites." He even paid for doing the artwork, which he did in one year.

In 1997 the mural inaugurated at the Metro station which is in the Louvre, but Santos was not invited to the ceremony attended by the presidents of both countries Ernesto Zedillo and Jacques Chirac. Echevarria says Santos suffered the issues because the mural was a deal between Metro Mexico and Paris. And at the end middleman did not pay the money agreed with Santos. The reason Santos was not invited to the opening ceremony in which were the presidents was because Santos issued its protest. Santos says "I am sure that the National Council for Culture and Arts had nothing to do, but it was horrible not to be invited and have not placed the mural in the right way". Santos had to resort to the human rights commission to pay to finish the job. "