Jean Lauer, CLAIFF19 Director, is traveling to NYC to participate in Ambulante Más Allá!
Thursday, April 21st, 2016, 6:00 PM
National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green, New York, New York 10004
Get more information and invite your NYC friends HERE!
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York, in collaboration with Ambulante Más Allá, Cinema Tropical, Celebrate Mexico Now and Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, will present “Ambulante Más Allá: The Future in Our Hands.”
Screened in conjunction with Earth Week, four films from the documentary-production project Ambulante Más Allá will highlight the environmental issues facing indigenous groups of Mexico. Cine Las Americas Festival Director Jean Lauer will be moderating a discussion following the show with Cristina Valle, Production Coordinator, and Maria Inés Roqué, Academic Coordinator, both of Ambulante Más Allá.
It’s an honor for Cine Las Americas to be a part of this collaboration with the Smithsonian NMAI, Ambulante Más Allá, Cinema Tropical, and Celebrate Mexico Now. Ambulante Más Allá seeks to train new producers from diverse areas of Mexico and Central America who have limited access to the tools necessary to share their stories with the broader public. The six-year-old program encourages independent filmmaking using a unique cultural perspective and aesthetic in order to strengthen community organization and participation. Ambulante Más Allá works toward democratization of the media and self-representation of excluded groups. The evening’s film screenings take a laser focus to indigenous groups of Mexico and the effects of environmental changes occurring in their native lands.
Film selection:
Gente de mar y viento/ People of the Sea and the Wind
2014, 25 min. Mexico. Director: Ingrid Eunice Fabián González
People of the Sea and the Wind recounts how the Zapotec community perceive the wind farm installed by a transnational corporation and the way in which they are ready to defend their community.
El futuro en nuestras manos/ The Future in Our Hands
2013, 19 min. Mexico. Director: Sara Oliveros
This documentary approaches the issue of inadequate solid waste management in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve through Miguel, Armando and Víctor, three boys who live in the municipal dump and work separating waste in order to survive.
El valor de la tierra/ The Value of the Land
2014, 22 min. Mexico. Director: Adriana Otero Puerto
The Value of the Land reflects one of the gravest situations currently affecting Mexican rural zones: the erosion of farming land as a result of the buying and selling of communitarian territory between businesses and rural workers.
Ligeramente Tóxico/ Slightly Toxic
2015, 21 min. Mexico. Director: Sara Oliveros López
Slightly Toxic addresses the increased use of agrochemicals since the implementation of PROCAMPITO, an incentive program by the government of the Mexican State of Campeche.