Cine Resistencia presents
Short Films from Mexico's Front Lines in Austin this Saturday
with filmakers
Vladimir Flores and Greg ¨Gringoyo¨ Berger
The two filmmakers will screen short excerpts from new documentary films by several different directors and video collectives covering the multiple stories that will forever mark 2006 as a milestone for Mexico´s Left.
The year 2006 saw Mexico pushed to the brink of full-scale Revolution. Amid well- documented claims of fraud in the Presidential Election, followers of would-be President Andres Manuel López Obrador occupied Mexico city historic center in tens thousands for over a month. Meanwhile, well-organized popular movements from Mexico´s poor and disenfranchised poeples emerged to suggest radical news forms of popular governance, which include the People´s Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO). It began as part of a teachers´strike and grew into a powerful non-violent occupation of the city of Oaxaca and a call for the sacking of the Governor followed by a new state constitutional assembly to reflect Oaxaca´s indigenous forms of democracy. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) also re-emerged with a new political initiative to unite a borad spectrum of Mexico´s sociaty into a ¨national anti-capitalist movement, below and to the left¨. In a desperate attempt to quell these dramatic rebellions, the Mexican government turned 2006 into the bloodiest year for activist and reporters in decades; hundreds of activist were rounded up and dozens killed in the town of Atenco and in Oaxaca.
Greg Berger is a Mexico based filmaker, and lecture. He is the producer of several award winning documentary films on grassroots social movements in Mexico and the Americas. His recent work includes a series of short experimental narratives exploring the complexities of U.S. / Mexico relations. His work has been screened on six continents and in Museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Vladimir Flores is an independet radio and video journalist. He is the Oaxaca correspondant for Radio Bilingue and Free Speech Radio News and member of the editorial team of Indymedia Mexico. He participates in the Oaxacan media collective Indyoax. He will show short films by the mal de ojo video collective from the front lines of the Oaxacan rebellion.
Saturday February 3, 2007 at 6pm
Resistencia BookStore
1801-A South first St.
Austin, Tejas
512 416-8885
http://www.resistenciabooks.com/
