Awards and Recognitions
Special Mention in the “Indigenous Language” category of the IV Regional Festival: Film/Video/Society in June 2002 in Mérida, Yucatan, for the video The Secret of Medicinal Plants by Hortensia Gómez López, Pedro Agripino Icó Bautista, Margarita López Hernández, Merit Ichin Santiesteban and Cecilia López Pérez.
First Prize in the “Indigenous Language” category of the IV Regional Festival: Film/Video/Society in June 2002 in Mérida, Yucatan, for the video ‘Te xa wuil a va’: May you have the power to see yourself by Linda Lothe, Cecilia Monroy Cuevas and Roberto Chankin Ortega.
The Special INI Prize for the best work in the “Indigenous Language” category to promote production of media accessible to speakers of the region’s different languages, awarded at the IV Regional Festival: Film/Video/Society in June 2002 in Mérida, Yucatan, to the video “More than a Thousand Years Later…” by Pablo Chankin Najbor, Axel Köhler and Tim Trench.
Special Recognition for the Visual Anthropology Course at the IV Regional Festival: Film/Video/Society in June 2002 in Mérida, Yucatan.
Prize for the Best Work in the “Indigenous Language” category of the V Regional Festival: Film/Video/Society in May 2003 in Mérida, Yucatan, for the video K’in santo ta sotz’leb. Day of the Dead in the Land of the Bats by Pedro Daniel López López.
Audience’s Award at the V Regional Festival: Film/Video/Society in May 2003 in Mérida, Yucatan, for the video K’in santo ta sotz’leb. Day of the Dead in the Land of the Bats by Pedro Daniel López López.
Selection of the video ‘Te xa wuil a va’: May you have the power to see yourself by Linda Lothe, Cecilia Monroy Cuevas y Roberto Chankin Ortega to be broadcast in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in Chile through the channels of the Novasur Educational System and the National Television Council - Intercultural and Bilingual Education Programme of the Ministry of Education.
Selection of the video ‘K’in santo ta sotz’leb’. Day of the Dead in the Land of the Bats by Pedro Daniel López López for broadcasting on the Can Opener (Abrelatas) programme on Mexican National Television Channel 11, on January 15 and September 30, 2004.
Grant for Artistic Creation for the project “K’evujel ta jteklum. Song of Our Land: Traditional Musicians of Zinacantán” given by the Chiapas State Fund for Culture and Arts (FOESCA) through its 2003-2004 programme.
Grant awarded by the Programme for Support of Municipal and Community Cultures (PACMYC) 2003-2004 for the project “Is this History or Deferred Love? The Culture of My People”.
Grant for Research in Cultural Heritage for the project “Xateros in the Lacandon Forest” given by the Chiapas State Fund for Culture and Arts (FOESCA) through its 2003-2004 programme.
Special Jury Mention at the VII Continental Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples held from June 18 to 27, 2004, in Wallmapu, Santiago de Chile, for the video Squ’inal Ixim. Celebrating Maize: The Third Maya-Zoque Maize Encounter by José Ángel López Domínguez and Roberto Alejandro Corzo León.