November 2006
 Álvaro
Revenga co-founded Caracol Productions with Nora Murillo,
to create documentary films that speak out against human rights
violations. His first documentary, Sipakapa No se Vende,
was recognized at the 2006 Festival Internacional de Cine y Video
de los Pueblos Indígenas in Oaxaca, Mexico for respectfully
showing community decision-making processes. In 2002 and 2003,
Revenga participated in video workshops presented by Comité
de Unidad Campesina—CUC in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Revenga
has lived in Guatemala since 1996, working for the human rights
of indigenous communities and rural farmers, through immigrant
associations and NGOs. He received an MA in human rights, indigenous
rights, and immigrant rights from the Universidad Complutense
of Madrid. Revenga grew up in Madrid, Spain and lives in Cobán,
Guatemala.
"In our works we seek to communicate. To communicate is
to rescue and to value popular knowledge, as much of our ancestors
as of our youth, and puts this knowledge in context within the
regional, national, and global reality in which we live."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Álvaro
Revenga - courtesy of the filmmaker ; Álvaro Revenga -
courtesy of the filmmaker
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