Indigenous people don’t just have to be input consumers, they also have the right to use the media to let people know what indigenous people are all about and what they really think.
They have the right to use the media in a way that they don’t lose their cultural identity. Everything depends on the proper use of the media and the way they reflect themselves against non-indigenous people.
Presenting the 2007 Muestra de Cine y Cooperación: “Construyendo comunicación desde los Pueblos Indígenas”
If General Custer would lift his head up, he would faint with his boots pointed to the sky, because he would see in the Cinema Festival Cooperation 2007, Indigenous people that are willing to strenghten their own development, lives and cultures utilising all types of communication.
He would perceive the world the other way around seeing indigenous people as main real characters, telling their own versions of stories, where disadvantaged people keep fighting against deceits that they always pretend to defeat.
As International correspondent of the Latin American Coordinator of Film and Indigenous Communication (CLACPI), Mugarik Gabe will present a cinema festival offering a part of audio-visual material that has been projected for the VIII International Indigenous Cinema Festival organized by CLACPI in Oaxaca (Mexico) in June 2006.
During this event you will have the chance to see indigenous production from Mexico, Norway, United States, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Sahara, Senegal, India, Australia, Guatemala and Brasil.
There will be three daily video projections starting at 5:30 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
The 8 p.m. projection on March 12, 13, 14, and 15 will be a special event because after the video there will be a talk with indigenous people from Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.
We are waiting for you, to prove that your action of a fair world and a new way of communication are really possible.
www.mugarikgabe.org
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