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Here
is a list of projects done by Cine campesino in colaboartion with Arte
Acción Copán Ruinas and various volunteers;
* Cine Campesino San Rafael
We received a request from the students of the middle school in the village
of San Rafael to organize a film festival at their school. The also requested
the movie: Apocalypto. Of course we complied. We set up our equipment
on the soccer field and were lucky it didn’t rain. More than 300
people showed up.
July 23, 2010
*Cine Campesino
In 2010 we continue with the project Cine Campesino, this time in the
community of Sinai, in collaboration with students at
the Huron University, Canada. While waiting for the public to arrive,
we set up the equipment for the film presentation. We started with Mini-Mundo-Maya,
our television program for children. We continued with the movie Tonta,
tonta pero no tanto with the Mexican comedian Marcia Velasco (La India
Maria). There was lots of laughs all through the night.
In the community of Santa Cruz we began again with the
presentation of Mini –Mundo, then we presented the film El Norte,
a production of Gregory Nava, released in 1983, featuring the journey
of two Guatemalan immigrants to the United States.
May 6 & 12, 2010
*Cine Maya
This is a variation on our travelling film festival Cine Campesino. Instructor
Lóndin Velásquez organizes a series of ten film festivals
around the theme of cultural identity in Maya Chortí communities.
April - December, 2009
So...four years after funding it was
the 111th Film Festival!!! And last of Ronald Reinds. Now that he has
returned to Holland, instructor Lóndin Velásquez has taken
over the traveling film festivals. Right now he’s organizing a series
of film festivals in Maya Chortí communities, showing films and
documentaries about Maya culture.
*Film Festival & Video-Story in La Pintada
So far, video as a medium has been pretty abstract for the participants
of this first Video-Story project, but when the results were shown during
the film festival in their community, everything fell in place….
Recognition, pride, and yes, maybe some embarrassment here and there too.
But mostly, the children loved seeing their own production amongst friends
and family members. They were the stars of their own show!
August 6, 2008
*Video-Story Part I in La Pintada
After doing several Photo-Story projects, we thought it was about time
to do something new. In July our volunteer Rosan Breman started the first
Video-Story project in the community of La Pintada and the town of Copán
Ruinas. Nine children, age ten to fifteen, were given a camera for 24
hours to film their own life. Most of them never used a video camera before,
so they were very excited to participate. Before the children started
filming, they received a theoretic class. In these lessons we explained
the basis principles of the camera. We also talked about what the children
would like to film and how they could do this. A few suggestions were:
film your parents, brothers and sisters, school, the house you’re
living in or the food you daily eat. Besides, and this was very important,
add your personal opinion. So while they were filming, the children had
to tell something about their subject. Next to this, we also conducted
interviews with all of the children. The information of this interview
is used in the final films to give a more completed impression of the
children’s life. After being edited in our office in Copán,
the result will be a 30 minute documentary containing an introduction
of the project, a selection of the films and an impression of the film
festival in La Pintada, on august 6th.
June – August, 2008
*Traveling Film Festivals (about Health)
Three film festivals in the remote villages of Montecristo,
El Tesorito and Nueva Allianza, all
in the north of the municipality of Copán Ruinas, as part of our
multidisciplinary health project for World Vision.
March 5, April 2 & 9, 2008
*Improvements Mini-Mundo
Improvements in our television program with the help of professional television
maker César Borregón
from Spain.
January 10 - March 10, 2008
*Maya Culture in Copán, a Documentary
Production of a 30 minute documentary about living Maya culture in Copán
Ruinas.
December 2007
*Mini-Mundo, Children's Television Program
Production of a weekly 25 minute educational children's program for local
television with art activities, games, yoga exercises, maya culture, scientific
and historic facts, story telling and much more. Premier: September 15,
2007.
August 2007-present
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