Chiapas Media Project

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Chiapas Media Project (CMP) is a binational partnership that provides media equipment, computers and training to indigenous communities in Southern Mexico to create their own media. The resulting videos offer a unique perspective on the lives and struggles of these communities in Chiapas. Since 1998, the instructors from CMP have worked with autonomous Zapatista communities. Indigenous youth in this part of Mexico often have little formal education and work without reliable electricity. The CMP help these communities produce videos on agricultural collectives, fair trade organic coffee, autonomous education, traditional healing and the history of their struggle for land.

Now, advanced video makers from the communities run the introductory camera and editing workshops in their regions. Indigenous and non-indigenous instructors from outside of Chiapas provide advanced production, post-production and computer training in the CMP Media Center in San Cristobal de las Casas. The goal is to have all training be carried out by community members in their native languages.

The CMP has distributed over 4,000 indigenous produced videos.