Workshops

‘Visual Anthropology Course specializing in Indigenous Rights’ (Level I) and Course on ‘Visual Anthropology, Film and Mass Media´, convened by CIESAS-Sureste, CESMECA-UNICACH, the University of Manchester (UK) and the University of Florida at Gainesville (USA). This course was funded by the National Indigenous Institute (INI), PACMYC, the British Council and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and took place between October 2 and December 2, 2000, on the CIESAS-Sureste campus with the following professors in attendance:

• Allan Burns (anthropologist, University of Florida at Gainesville, USA)
• Ana Laura Hernández (videomaker, Chiapas Media Project)
• Andrea Martínez Crowther (Independent Videomaker, Mexico City)
• Arturo Lomelí (Anthropologist and Independent Videomaker, Chiapas)
• Byrt Wammack (Anthropologist and Videomaker, director of the Regional Festival: Film/Video/Society, Mérida, Yucatan)
• Carlos Martínez Suárez (Independent Filmmaker, Chiapas)
• Carlos Y. Flores Arenales (Anthropologist and Videomaker, CIRMA, Guatemala)
• Crisanto Manzano Abella (Indigenous Videomaker, Indigenous Video Centre – INI, Oaxaca)
• Francisco Vázquez (Photographer, Chiapas Media Project)
• Genaro Rojas Ramírez (Indigenous Videomaker, founder of TV TAMIX, Oaxaca)
• José Santos Velázquez Ortega (producer of audiovisual media for CCESC, Chiapas)
• Juan Carlos Ortela Francisco (Indigenous Videomaker, CELALI, Chiapas)
• Juan José García Ortiz (Director of the Indigenous Video Centre – INI, Oaxaca)
• Mainor Pacay (Q'eqchi' Videomaker, member of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Centre — Ak'Kutan, Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala)
• Mariano Estrada Aguilar (Tseltal Videomaker, Indigenous Freedom Defence Committee [CDLI], Palenque, Chiapas)
• Paul Henley (Anthropologist and Filmmaker, director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Manchester, UK)
• Steve Bachrach (Independent Filmmaker, Founder and coordinator of the Jefferson Media Arts Academy, Los Angeles, USA) The Network of Community Human Rights Advocates, Chiapas
• Victoria Novelo (Visual Anthropologist, CIESAS and University of Colima, Mexico)

Students and professors in the Visual Anthropology Course (DAV).
Photo: A. Lomelí.

• Video recording workshop organized and given on October 15-20, 2001, by Axel Köhler for Lacandon youths in the community of Nahá, Lacandon Forest, Chiapas, in collaboration with the Na Bolom Cultural Association.
• Scriptwriting workshop given on April 2 and 3, 2003, at the CIESAS-Sureste campus by David Ruiz, independent filmmaker from Los Angeles, USA, also guest researcher at CIESAS.
• Video production workshop undertaken November 3-7, 2003 in La Albarrada in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The workshop was led by Rafael Rebollar Corona, a Mexican independent filmmaker (Trabuco Productions, S.C), organized in conjunction with the ‘Boca de Polen’ Communicators’ Network, Civil Association, and financed by CONACULTA.