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Mavic Cabrera-Balleza <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:51:43 -0400
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Dear Juan and all, 

Thanks for sharing the info. This is really sad but in many ways, a
reaffirmation of the power of peoples' media. 

Mavic 


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From: For communication among alternative media producers, academics,
artists, and activists. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jethro
Pettit
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:08 AM
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Subject: Re: Violence in opening of IX Indigenous film/video festival in
Bolivia (Espanol & English)

Dear Juan and all

Thanks for sharing this news... for those who read English there is a
translation at the bottom. I think it reminds us how important this work is
(of OurMedia and our allies) to create supportive spaces for the expression
of culture and voice for all people, and especially those who have been
silenced for so long.

So keep up the good work everybody, and keep the spirit alive.

Jethro

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Sent: 11 September 2008 22:56
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Subject: Violence in opening of IX Indigenous film/video festival in Bolivia
(Espanol & English)

FROM  AMALIA CORDOVA

Sending you sobering news from indigenous filmmakers meeting in Bolivia.

 **English follows Spanish**


Compañeros,

Saludos. Reenvio Note de Prensa de los organizadores del IX Festival
Internacional
de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas  respecto a la violencia vivida de
Santa Cruz.
Se agradece difusión.


Nota de prensa suspensión del festival en Santa Cruz

La violencia y el racismo acallan la fiesta del cine indígena en Santa Cruz

La Paz, 10 de septiembre, 2008

Los actos de violencia vividos el pasado 9 de septiembre en la ciudad de
Santa Cruz han obligado a suspender, por cuestiones de seguridad, los
actos previstos en esta ciudad en el marco del IX Festival Internacional
de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas. Después de la toma por parte
de los grupos de choque de la oposición "cívica" de diferentes instituciones
públicas y medios de comunicación afines al gobierno, se temen ataques
a los participantes de dicho festival. Este es el motivo que ha obligado a
las
organizaciones indígenas originarias convocantes a suspender el
festival en Santa Cruz.

Desde 1985 la Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de
los Pueblos Indígenas, CLACPI, junto a Organizaciones Indígenas y
aliados de diferentes países, impulsa el desarrollo de los Festivales
Internacionales de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas. En esta
edición, la violencia y la intolerancia han acallado el mensaje de los
pueblos indígenas y originarios de muchas partes del mundo.

Después del triunfo de la violencia y la sinrazón, el festival no
tiene más remedio que trasladarse ahora a la ciudad de La Paz, donde
estaba previsto su inicio el próximo domingo 14 de septiembre, con la
presentación de la película "El grito de la selva", primer
largometraje de ficción indígena producido en Bolivia. En esta
película se narra la lucha de los pueblos indígenas de la amazonía
boliviana por defender su territorio del avasallamiento sufrido por
parte de grandes latifundistas. Precisamente, estos latifundistas y
otros grupos opositores, son los que ahora pretenden frenar el proceso
de emancipación que viven los pueblos indígenas en nuestro país.

Sin embargo, la violencia de los intransigentes no impedirá que el IX
Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígena
consiga: afirmar el pleno reconocimiento social, político y cultural
de los pueblos indígenas; resaltar el valor de la imagen y la
comunicación para celebrar un mundo plural en el que los pueblos
indígenas puedan construir el futuro que buscan; motivar la producción
de obras cinematográficas y videográficas que dan voz y que los
retratan dignamente; ni fortalecer los lazos que unen a las y los
comunicadores indígenas y no indígenas de diferentes continentes
luchando por un mundo más justo y por el pleno reconocimiento del
derecho a la autodeterminación.

Comité Organizador
 IX Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas
www.clacpi.org <http://www.clacpi.org/>
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Press release suspension of the 9th CLACPI festival in Santa Cruz

Violence and racism quell the indigenous film festival in Santa Cruz.

La Paz, Sept. 10, 2008

The violence experienced on September 9 in the city of Santa Cruz has forced
organizers to suspend, for security issues, the events planned in this city
to
launch the IX International Festival of Indigenous Peoples Film and Video.
Following occupations by "civic" groups of the opposition of different
public
institutions and communication media centers related to the government,
fearing potential attacks to participants of the festival. These have
reasons forced
the indigenous organizations to suspend the Festival in Santa Cruz.

Since 1985, the Coordinator of Latin American Cinema and Communication
Indigenous Peoples, CLACPI, alongside indigenous organizations and allies of
different countries, promotes the development of International Film and
Video
Festivals of Indigenous Peoples. In this edition, violence and intolerance
have
silenced the message of Indigenous and originating in many parts of the
world.

After the triumph of violence and unreason, the festival has little choice
but to
now move on to the city of La Paz, where the film "The Cry of the Jungle",
the first
indigenous feature film produced in Bolivia, was planned to start next
Sunday
September 14. This film narrates the struggle of indigenous peoples
defending
their territory in the Bolivian Amazon in the face of subjugation suffered
at the
hands of large landowners. These landowners and other opposition groups are
precisely those who now seek to halt the process of empowerment of
indigenous
peoples living in our country.

However, hardline opposition violence will not prevent the Ninth
International
Festival of Film and Video of Indigenous Peoples from: asserting full
social,
political and cultural recognition of indigenous peoples; highlighting the
value
of images and communication that uphold a pluralistic world in which
Indigenous
peoples can build the future we seek; motivate the production of film and
video
works that give voice to indigenous peoples and that portray indigenous
peoples
with dignity; strengthening the ties that bind and Native and non-indigenous
people from different continents fighting for a more just world and for the
full
recognition of self-determination rights.

Organizing Committee
 IX International Festival of Indigenous Peoples´ Film and Video.
www.clacpi.org <http://www.clacpi.org>





 Amalia Córdova
Latin American Program Manager
Film + Video Center
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004
Tel:       +1 212-514-3735
Fax:      +1 212-514-3725
Email:   [log in to unmask]
www.nativenetworks.si.edu <http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/>  /
www.redesindigenas.si.edu <http://www.redesindigenas.si.edu/>

Abierta convocatoria al XIV Festival de Cine y Video Indígena!

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