The War for Other Media

Indigenous peoples in Latin America have woken up to develop their own media. A few successful examples of how the camera and microphone can consolidate culture are the online network ERBOL of the Bolivian Aymara Indians in the Amazon, the online radio of the Mapuche in Patagonia, Chile, and the Video in the Villages project in Brazil. With the aid of notebooks, radios, cameras and phones they resist the invasion of their territories, the ransacking of their resources, cultural discrimination, the non-recognition of their institutions, inequalities and having to vindicate their traditions. (Skábmagovat-elokuvajuhla)