November 2006
 Mauricio
Acosta (Nasa) produces and directs documentaries for
Tejido de Comunicación, the communication network of the
Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Norte (ACIN)
in the state of Cauca, Colombia. Tejido de Comunicación
promotes the autonomy of indigenous communities through media.
In 2006 Acosta's video Pa' poder que Nos Den Tierra, was
recognized at the Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los
Pueblos Indígenas for its effectiveness in bringing attention
to the violence inflicted on indigenous peoples in Colombia, and
the communities' peaceful resistance. Acosta conducts community
video workshops for Tejido de Comunicación and works as
a graphic designer at the Universidad del Cauca in Popayán,
Colombia.
"Indigenous video constitutes a space to strengthen culture
and should be thought as such, for it is necessary that the indigenous
communities appropriate audiovisual language not only as a medium
of denunciation and resistance, but also as a tool that promotes
the knowledge and values of the communities through their own
protagonists."
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Image credit:
Mauricio Acosta - photograph by María Teresa Guerrero Bucheli
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