From: lenore (lmpallad@midway.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 20:25:31 EDT
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Subject: MSN Chiapas Media Project Fall Tour 2002: Northeast and Midwest US
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CHIAPAS MEDIA PROJECT FALL TOUR 2002: Now Scheduling
Presentation Dates in the MIDWEST AND NORTHEAST.
The Chiapas Media Project (CMP) seeks university,
religious and community-based sponsors to host screenings
on our 5th annual fall tour in the Northeast and the
Midwest of the US in October and November 2002. The tour
will feature all new videos produced by indigenous video
makers from the states of Chiapas and Guerrero, Mexico.
Dates are scheduled on a first come, first-served basis
and will fill up fast, so contact us as soon as possible.
The Chiapas Media Project is a bi-national collaboration
that provides video and computer equipment and training to
indigenous and campesino communities in Southern Mexico.
Alexandra Halkin, CMP Founder and Director will present
the videos. Presentations last between one-and-a-half and
two hours and include a discussion on the role of
indigenous-produced media in the context of the current
political situations in Chiapas and Guerrero. A Q & A
session follows the video screening. Presentations can be
done in either Spanish or English. Sponsors need to
provide a video projector, a VCR with audio system and
comfortable seating.
The CMP has presented videos at numerous universities,
museums, and film and video festivals around the world. In
2001, the CMP screened at the Sundance Film Festival,
Museum of Modern Art/NYC, Amiens International Film
Festival/France, Milan International Film Festival. In
Spring 2002, the CMP presented at St. Lawrence University,
Middlebury College, NYU, Tufts, UMass-Amherst, Wesleyan,
Bard, The Taos Talking Picture Festival and the Arizona
Intl. Film Festival among others.
The CMP asks for an honorarium based on the means of the
host organization to help continue the work of the CMP.
Information packets are available that include articles
on the CMP, bios, photos etc. Check our website:
www.chiapasmediaproject.org for more information.
For further information, please contact Alex at
773-583-7728 or cmp@chiapasmediaproject.org
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME OF THE VIDEOS TO BE SCREENED AT
PRESENTATIONS:
Song of the Earth: Traditional Music from the Highlands of
Chiapas
(Tzotzil with English sub-titles, 17:00 min., 2002)
Tzotzil elders explain the significance of traditional
music and the role of
musicians in their communities. Various celebrations,
songs and dances are
presented including the festival of San Andrés, the most
important
celebration of the year. Elders talk about the influence
of western music
and dress on youth and express their hopes that indigenous
youth will
maintain their traditions and culture. “Song of the
Earth” demonstrates the
strength of communities in resistance as they struggle to
preserve their
cultural heritage amidst the low intensity war and the
allure of pop
culture.
Zapata’s Garden
(Tzeltal and Spanish w/English sub-titles, 19:13 min.,
2002)
Shot and produced by indigenous men and women video makers
in the Autonomous
Municipality of Emiliano Zapata this video looks at the
new society that the
Zapatistas are building. Zapata’s Garden shows how
this new municipality is
fighting the effects of globalization and government
corruption through
their work in their collective garden. Community members
talk about the
importance of collective work in building this new
society. “We don’t want
things to be as they were before. Now we have land to
work, and with it we
will feed ourselves and our children”.
Walking Towards the Dawn: The Memory, Resistance and Hope
of the Communities
Displaced by War in Chiapas
(Tzotzil and Spanish w/English sub-titles, 46:00 min.,
2001)
“Walking Towards the Dawn” was produced for
the Human Rights Center Fray
Bartolome de las Casas based in San Cristobal de las
Casas, Chiapas. Walking
Towards the Dawn presents the Center’s work with
indigenous communities
displaced by paramilitary violence in the state. There are
interviews with
Bishop Samuel Ruiz and staff who discuss their programs
that have provided
important psychological counseling to these communities to
help them to deal
with the devastating effects of paramilitary violence and
displacement. The
video documents workshops that were conducted with the
survivors of the
Acteal massacre, who are members of the non-violent group
“Las Abejas”
located in the Highlands. Also included are interviews
with community
members from the north of Chiapas who speak about the
paramilitary violence
in their regions.
Reclaiming Justice: Guerrero’s Indigenous Community
Police
(Spanish with English sub-titles, 25:00, 2002)
“Reclaiming Justice” is the story of 42
Mixteco and Tlapaneco communities in
the Costa-Montaña region of Guerrero who, faced with
injustice and
corruption of local authorities, established the
Indigenous Community Police
(ICP) in 1995. Based on the traditional Indigenous
justice system, the ICP
is a volunteer organization elected by regional assembly.
With the ICP,
crime dropped substantially, organized crime has nearly
disappeared, and
police corruption is non-existent. Instead of supporting
the ICP, state and
local governments attacked them publicly and claimed that
they function
outside the law. “Reclaiming Justice” gives
voice to members of the ICP,
demonstrates their success in creating community security,
and shows how the
ICP restored dignity and pride to Indigenous communities
despite opposition
by corrupt authorities.
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