Encuentro de Video para el Cambio Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Let’s go!

Mexico city

July 2015

It is important to create networks because it allow

us to learn from others

In Latin America borders divide us,

and we recognize that it’s as if these borders were

placed there almost by hand

because we have so many things that unite

and join us.

Convening of Collectives

From 15 countries in Latin America

and the Caribbean.

In Latin America the tissue is something ancestral

for many cultures and also for our own identity.

It is the collective participation and

above all, to be able to conciliate

several ideas and worldviews.

Community cinema

Free media, independent and alternative.

Video to denounce

It’s sharing all that information from

one place to another

and that everybody realize

that it is not just only a community

or an organization,

but thousands and thousands of people

fighting to achieve something better.

Here we brought together a very

interesting diversity

of experiences -community cinema,

video for denouncing, video as an evidence

All of this is our learning process,

our exchange process, our space

for building/growing knowledge.

For us it is fundamental to work

as a network to support the communities

that are in resistance against mining

and petroleum extractive projects

which are the common thread in Latin America

In this moment it feels really important

to build networks to share our practices,

our strategies and also our productions.

Is what gives us the strength as community

and free media, to awaken the people

who still live within the system.

It has been very interesting to meet other people

who are documenting the reality of their lives,

communicating it with other people

and helping others take control

of the media and tell their own stories.

The idea of a short film produced

by a local organization in Argentina

being presented here in Mexico or in Peru,

seems to us a very important event

for the strategy of thinking on a community cinema.

The importance of working as a network

is a peace experience,

a diverse peace that can be built

among the youth, artistic or cultural movements

in Latin America.

What we did here here is an important step

for the articulation of free/independent media

networks in Latin America

and the Caribbean.

These ties, at this point become important

as the repression and the violence

coming from the governments

are increasing and targeting our fights.

We have a common enemy,

the transnational capital is beating us all.

So finding these people

is a way of saying

“we are not alone, we are in this together.”

You share, you exchange

and you also feel the support

of a lot of people who are also

performing acts of resistance in their communities.

Let’s keep growing our solidarity

saying we are in this together

and we will be until the end!