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Here is an interview with Isabel Barton, which delves deeper into the history, culture and language of the Pemon Indians. Barton is a filmmaker, currently working on a feature-length experimental documentary called The Making of a Chief, about Pemón Indian Hortensia Berti. Hortensia’s tribe, the Kamarakotos, a sub-tribe of the Pemón, live at the foot of the mountain that houses Angel Falls. The Making of a Chief has been awarded two grants from New State Council on the Arts and an SOS grant from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation, and it is sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts.