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A place called Chiapas
Dir. Nettie Wild
Un lugar llamado Chiapas | 1998 | Canada | 96 min.
Synopsis
Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, A Place Called Chiapas revolves around the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1994. Nettie Wild onterviews the main faces of the uprising: Subcomandante Marcos, bishop Samuel Ruiz, the army’s militants, Chiapas’ farmers, soldiers, persecuted people and members of the paramilitary group Paz y Justicia.
* This copy was remastered from the source material and supervised by the director herself, in the Digital Laboratory of the UNAM Film Library.
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Film credits
Directed
Nettie Wild
Producers
Betsy Carson
Kirk Tougas
Nettie Wild
Cinematography
Kirk Tougas
Nettie Wild
Production companies
National Film Board of Canada
British Columbia Arts Council
Articles
- THE NEW YORK TIMES - "FILM REVIEW; Examining Mexico's Zapatista Uprising"
- READER - "An intelligent and informative feature-length documentary by Canadian filmmaker Nettie Wild"
- CULTURE VULTURE - "Nettie Wild’s documentary about the Zapatista uprising in Southern Mexico was financed by practically every film presence in Canada except Dudley Do-Right"
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