September 2006
 Mariano
Estrada Aguilar (Tzeltal) produces documentary videos
with Comité de Defensa para la Libertad Indígena
(CDLI), an organization that supports indigenous rights in Chiapas,
Mexico. His video, Rostro de la Historia Indígena/Profile
of Indigenous History, won Best Documentary at the Geografías
Suaves festival in Mexico in 2004. His work was screened in the
7th Festival Americano de Cine y Video de Pueblos Indígenas
in 2004 in Santiago, Chile, and in the 2003 NMAI national tour
Video México Indígena/Video Native Mexico. Estrada
received a National Video Resources Media Arts Fellowship in 2002
and was certified in 2000 in Visual Anthropology by the Center
for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in San
Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. Estrada lives in San Manuel,
the indigenous community in Chiapas where he was born.
"In reality I am not an independent videomaker—while
the technical questions of videomaking are solved alone, the feeling
and content of my videos belong to the people."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Mariano Estrada Aguilar - photograph by Tim Warner; Mariano Estrada
Aguilar - photograph by Tim Warner
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