Director of Photography
A la edad de 89 años, Julián Moreno hace un último viaje en autobús a El Paso, Texas, para visitar a sus hijas y sus hijos, un largo viaje que ha hecho sin falta todos los meses durante décadas. Después de regresar a la zona rural de México, silenciosamente comienza a construir una casa en el lote baldío al lado de su casa. En ausencia de sus visitas físicas, ¿puede esta nueva casa salvar la distancia entre sus seres queridos?
Director
In Mexico, a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced and discriminated against, Lupita, a survivor of one of the worst massacres in the country’s history, finds her voice in a movement led by indigenous women. The film intimately follows Lupita, a Tzotzil Maya woman, as she takes on the responsibility to be the spokeswoman of her people. Part lyrical testimony, part tribute to 500 years of indigenous resistance, this film mediates the point-of-view of a brave woman who must balance the demands of motherhood with her high stakes choices to reeducate and restore justice to the world.
Associate Producer
"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil—5.5% of whom were killed during the armed conflict in the 1980s. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, an emerging Ixil leader and the translation project’s coordinator, "Mother Tongue" illuminates the Ixil community’s ongoing work to preserve collective memory.
