Los Con Voz (Those With Voice)

Los Con Voz (Those With Voice)

Directed by Jeff Arak
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Overview

Genre
Anthropology, Social Issues, Culture, Foreign Worlds, and Personal Doc
Synopsis

Los Con Voz documents current efforts in the Southern Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas to produce what social scientists have dubbed “indigenous media”.
A pacifist group of radio engineers travel days to man the transmitter cabin in the hills of Chiapas, providing the surrounding communities with information about current events, family health, and national politics. An archaeologist in Massachusetts explains how his field has changed throughout the twentieth century. And an international film festival brings together visionaries from twenty-three countries including a girl from Finland searching for love and a Cree man working to keep his peoples’ oral history alive.
These stories illustrate the complexities of the indigenous experience today while at the same time they promote the universality of the human spirit. Through it all we find the undeniable desire to speak and be heard.

Treatment
Show treatment
Stage
finished
Running time
55 minutes

Credits

Production Details

Prod. Co.
On This Earth
Country
Mexico
Years of Production
1
Locations
Oaxaca, Chiapas, Mexico. Waltham, MA, USA.
Prod. Partners
Brandeis University

Distribution Details

Release year
2007
Festivals
"Ownership and Appropriation," University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2008 International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Quebec, Canada, 2009 Muestra de Cine Documental y Etnografico, Puerto Rico, 2009 Days of Ethnographic Film, Slovenia, 2009
Distribution
Documentary Educational Resources
Language
English/Spanish
Subtitles
English/Spanish

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