Chiapas Media Project

Chiapas Media Project (CMP) is a binational partnership that provides media equipment, computers and training to native villages in Southern Mexico to create their own media. The resulting videos offer a unique perspective on the lives and struggles of these villages in Chiapas. Since 1998, the instructors from CMP have worked with self-governing Zapatista villages. Native youth in this part of Mexico often have little formal education and work without reliable electricity. The CMP help these villages produce videos on farming collectives, fair trade organic coffee, self-governing education, traditional healing and the history of their struggle for land.

Now, advanced video makers from the villages run the introductory camera and editing workshops in their regions. Native and non-native instructors from outside of Chiapas provide advanced production, post-production and computer training in the CMP Media Center in San Cristobal de las Casas. The goal is to have all training be carried out by village members in their native languages.

The CMP has distributed over 4,000 native produced videos.

Videos from Chiapas

• Caracoles: New Paths of Resistance
• Water and Autonomy
• We Speak Against Injustice
• The Silence of the Zapatistas
• Xulum'Chon: Weavers in Resistance from the Highlands
• Song of the Earth: Traditional Music from the Highlands of Chiapas

External Links

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