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Films
10 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Region
“Central America”
x
films with a digital version
6
short films
10
x
Region
Central America
10
x
North America
1
Country
Mexico
9
United States
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Festivals / Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
4
Inter-religious relations
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Labour
1
Material Culture
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Political Activists
1
Popular Culture
1
Prison
1
Reflexivity
1
Resistance
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
2
Social Conflict
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Trade
1
Urban
1
Directors
Arcé, Adrian
1
Contreras, Isis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Magaña, Jaime
1
Moore, Allen
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Rivero Uicab, Carlos R.
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Werner, Louis
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
Series
Ambulante Beyond
3
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
4
not set
3
Country of production
Mexico
5
United Kingdom
4
United States
2
Venezuela
1
Year of production
1994
1
1996
1
2000
2
2006
1
2009
1
2012
1
2013
2
2014
1
Film list
Campo 9
2013
25
‘
Directed by
Carlos R. Rivero Uicab
.
Carlos, the director of the documentary, worked for four years with Abraham and his family of Mennonites who have lived in the Campeche region for over a decade. Abraham mainly worked cutting down
Central America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Conflict
Inter-religious relations
Cinema Pedregal
1994
27
‘
Directed by
Ricardo Leizaola
.
For forty years Alejandro Farfán has been making and showing films in El Pedregal. Now located in the heart of Caracas, this community was a small village when Alejandro first went to the cinema.
Central America
Popular Culture
Urban
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Democracía Indígena
2000
39
‘
Directed by
Bruce Pacho Lane
.
This film examines the indigenous rights revolution sweeping Mexico through the municipal elections in Huehuetla, Puebla. In 1989, the Huehuetla Totonacs formed the Organización Independiente
Central America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Political Activists
Kutääy
2014
20
‘
Directed by
Isis Contreras
.
Fili, a 22-year-old Mixe, makes ornamental paper hot air balloons. Since this is an important tradition in his community, Fili —an expert in the art— is recognized and accepted. Yet, he is
Central America
Material Culture
Social Change
Intergenerational relations
Los Guardianes del Mayab
2012
34
‘
Directed by
Jaime Magaña
.
Luis Puc is a Yucatecan Mayan jmen (shaman). He dies and travels to the dimension of the seven heavens where he meets the báalam (guardians). Through them, he receives healing powers and wisdom,
Central America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Shamans and Shamanism
Out of Focus
2013
37
‘
Directed by
Adrian Arcé
Antonio Zirión
.
This is a collaborative documentary about arts, culture and everyday life inside a prison for minors. It was shot during a photography and video workshop with young inmates at the Juvenile Community
Central America
Children / Young people
Prison
Art / Artists / Artisans
Reflexivity
Scenes of Resistance
2000
30
‘
Directed by
Alejandra Navarro Smith
.
A series of portraits of life in a Zapatista indigenous community in Chiapas, Southern Mexico. This film invites us into the people’s everyday lives, and presents their own views of the fight against
Central America
Resistance
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
A Sheepherder’s Homecoming
1996
40
‘
Directed by
Allen Moore
Louis Werner
.
This film documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch who then returns to his family in Mexico after a long absence to renew ties and find a job at home. It
North America
Central America
Migration
Labour
Tiempo de Vals
2006
22
‘
Directed by
Rebecca Savage
.
The ‘Quinceañera’ celebration is a lived illusion. A daydream shared by the whole community of Tetlanohcan, a rapidly urbanising agricultural town in Tlaxcala, Central Mexico. The dream is
Central America
Festivals / Carnival
Social Change
Vendemos Recuerdos
2009
25
‘
Directed by
Carolina Corral Paredes
.
Carlos is an enthusiastic tour guide and Doña Rosa is an indigenous old woman that sells crafts in the market. Both of their life’s works are an effort to provide what inquisitive tourists might
Central America
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Trade