Chiapas Media Project
Alexandra Halkin, Video Producer/Founder and Director, of Chiapas Media
Project will be visiting Australia from August 25 to September 24, 2003.
Alexandra is an independent documentary video producer, who has been
producing documentaries for the last 20 years. In March 1995 she made
her first visit to Chiapas, Mexico, when hired to produce a documentary
about a joint US-Mexican humanitarian aid caravan to a Zapatista region
in the 'zone of conflict'. During this trip community members told
Alexandra they had a great interest in having access to video and
computer technology. In late 1997, the Chiapas Media Project (CMP)
received its first grant from the US-Mexico Fund for Culture and held
its first video workshop in Ejido Morelia in February 1998. In 2000,
Alexandra co-Directed Defending the Forests: The Struggle of the
Campesino Environmentalists of Guerrero with Oaxacan indigenous video
maker, Carlos Efrain Perez. This was an integral part of an
international campaign to free two imprisoned OCE members, Rodolfo
Montiel and Teodoro Cabreara and raise awareness of the deforestation of
Guerrero's virgin forests.
About the Chiapas Media Project
The Chiapas Media Project (CMP) is a binational partnership that
provides video equipment, computers and training, enabling marginalised
indigenous communities in Southern Mexico to create their own media.
Since 1998, CMP instructors have worked in close collaboration with
autonomous Zapatista communities. Indigenous youth, with little formal
education and often working without reliable electricity, have produced
videos on agricultural collectives, fair trade organic coffee,
autonomous education, traditional healing and the history of their
struggle for land.
Films
You are invited to the screening of some of these amazing documentaries.
Alexandra will introduce them with a brief history. She will also be
available for questions after their screening.
1st Screening
Indigenous Film Making in Mexico
Tuesday 26 August 2003, at 6.30pm.
The Chocolate Factory
144 Cleveland Street, Chippendale.
Entry $5.00
2nd Screening
Silence of the Zapatistas; Weavers Resistance; and The Sacred Land
Thursday 28 August 2003, 6.30pm
University of Technology, Broadway.
Entry $5.00
3rd Screening
Reclaiming Justice; Zapatas' Garden; and We Speak Against Injustice
Monday 1 September 2003, at 6.30pm
Valhalla Cinema, Glebe
Entry $8.00 or $6.00 concession.
Alexandra is looking forward to have these films shown at other venues.
For more information, please email me, Marlene Obeid, at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >, or phone me on 0401 758 871.
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