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Equidad de Género/Gender Equality
(2009, 25 min.) GUATEMALA
Director: Fermina Chiyal Jiatz (Kaqchikel Maya)
Produced by: the Association of Mayan Women Communicators (NUTZIJ)
In Kaqchikel Maya and Spanish with English subtitles.
A Mayan woman raises her family while her husband works in New York. When he loses his job, she must take over as the family breadwinner in a climate of institutionalized racism and gender inequality. The latter, she finds, exists even within her own family.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio,
2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova,
NMAI; Equidad de Género/Gender Equality
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