The San Cristobal Film Festival will take place from May the 24th to the 29th. This festival, this festival will focus in the documental films based on: Human rights, environment, social problems and visual anthropology. During the festival, we will project a complete documentary selection in different places: theatre, city-neighborhood and community public places. Also will be workshops, conferences and meeting points for interchange ideas, coexistence between research centers and associations with experts and production houses in order to have a good audiovisual material as a marketing tool. This city has been mobile cinema´s festival home. However, this is the first time organized in and for San Cristobal de las Casas, with a section in competition included.
Work:
The festival will include: outdoor functions, attention to special guests, film projections at different communities, press room and general event logistic. The volunteers will be part of this activities helping on: guest reception, information, equipment and furniture installation in public places and press room and also supporting special events. We are expecting hard work days with a lot of physical job. The working hours will be large due the event characteristics. The days before the event, the volunteers will support us in logistic because we will receive the projection equipment, furniture and also will help preparing the projection places and visiting the communities where the traveling festival will take place. The days after the festival, the volunteers will help in the equipment delivery and with the cleaning of the place where the festival was executed.
Nataté and Kinoki Independent Cultural Forum, organized the camp, which is called CINE CON SENTIDO (MOVIES WITH MEANING), which will focus on films and/or documentaries and workshops in different venues, with the aim of exchanging experiences through leisure activities and recreation as recycling workshops, drama, painting of murals, etc.., which will be aimed at different groups of the population with the thematic of the protection of the environment. The projection sites will be done in 3 municipalities in Chiapas: San Cristobal de las Casas, the Center's Albarrada, in a nearby neighborhood and in the Ha O Mek Ka center, situated in the municipality to Tzajalá, near the city of Ocosingo and in the municipality of Copainalá.
WORK:
During the first week, volunteers will participate in the preparation of recreation and leisure activities to be held in each site, volunteers are expected to attend screenings during the two weeks which will be held in two nearby communities, in order to have a reference to discuss and reflect on the theme of the projections, the care of the technical equipment, etc. .. The proposal is to carry out recycling activities, prepare a performance play, have a brainstorm for a mural which will be made and all these activities will be carried out with different sectors of the population (children, youth and/or adults). Volunteers will be involved from the preparation of the workshops to the implementation of the presentations, so volunteers are expected to have interest and motivation. By the nature of the event, volunteers will prepare the space for the projections and will be responsible for cleaning up the sites. The work will be hard during the two weeks of camp but it will be a very enriching. Volunteers should bring proposals for activities to do around the theme of the camp which is the protection of the environment.
ACCOMMODATION:
In the La Albarrad community center situaded in San Cristóbal de las Casas; Ocosingo in the center Ha O Me ka situated in the municipality of Tzajala and in the village of Copainalá.
The Community is made up of people from the Ricardo Flores Magon neighborhood. This community called Guadalupe Santa Cruz, is a group of men, women, children and youngters who are part of a religious group (Catholic). Within the community they organize workshops related to human rights and expressed in a group of women, speaking about the social, economic and cultural difficulties suffered by women, the objectives of this work is that women get the importance of their role in the society and in the family. Other activities carried out by the Community are to visit the four neighborhoods that make up the district, so we can share experiences and biblical testimonies and create a close relationship among the villagers. As well there are activities with children and youth, which offer group dynamics, workshops about recycling, ecology, games, film and spiritual guidance.
WORK:
The proposal is to strengthen support for young people and children, in the process of understanding the world. As well take care of the maintenance of the the temple and contribute to cultural events organized by the community.
Activities:
1 .- As the camp will be developed in a celebration time, volunteers will participate in the arrangement of the spaces for the celebration which will allow them to be witness of thell the cultural, ceremonial and spiritual celebrations, as well to have direct contact with the population. 2 .- To carry out activities with children and young people, which will cover environmental issues, video projections and cultural exchange. 3 .- Put a barrier around the edges of the temple.
ACCOMMODATION:
The sleeping room will be located on the premises of the Temple.
LOCATION:
Santa Cruz Guadalupe Community is located in the neighborhood Ricardo Flores Magon, and belongs to the municipality of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas, Mexico. It is an hour and a half from the capital of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez.
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