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Audience at "Club Red Radio"

"A Cielo Abierto/Under the Open Sky"A Cielo Abierto/Under the Open Sky
(2007, 38 min.) MEXICO
Director: José Luis Matías (Nahua) and Carlos Pérez Rojas (Mixe)
In Spanish with English subtitles.

Mexico’s largest gold deposit is found in El Carrizalillo, Guerrero, where the people live in grinding poverty. In early 2007, community landholders organized in order to seek a fair annual lease payment and social benefits for the communtiy from the Canadian transnational company Goldcorp Mining.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI; A Cielo Abierto/Under the Open Sky

José Luis Matías

Carlos Perez Rojas

2009 Native American Film and Video Festival - US premiere

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