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Films
5 Films
Region
“Central America”
x
Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
5
Region
Central America
5
x
North America
1
Country
Mexico
5
United States
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Festivals / Carnival
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Labour
1
Migration
1
Prison
1
Reflexivity
1
Resistance
1
Social Change
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Trade
1
Directors
Arcé, Adrian
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Moore, Allen
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Werner, Louis
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
3
not set
2
Country of production
Mexico
1
United Kingdom
3
United States
1
Year of production
1996
1
2000
1
2006
1
2009
1
2013
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
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