March 2005
 Videomaker
and activist Jeanette Paillán (Mapuche)
works with Lulul Mawidha, an indigenous media organization in
Santiago, Chile. She was the regional coordinator of the 2004
Festival Americano de Cine y Video de Pueblos Indígenas,
where she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award. Her recent video
Wallmapu screened in Australia and New Zealand in 2004.
It won the Special Award for Best Historic Investigation from
Argentina's Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de Derechos
Humanos in 2003. Paillán spoke on indigenous land rights
at the United Nations World Conference against Racism, held in
Durban, South Africa in 2001. She is a member of the Consejo Latinamericano
de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas
(CLACPI). Paillán studied filmmaking at La Escuela Internacional
de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños,
Cuba and received a degree in social communication from the Universidad
de Chile in Santiago.
"Mapuche people understand that it's not enough to just
tell people our problems without showing them. And images are
the most eloquent way that we are able to expose problems, to
transport the person that's watching the video to the place where
events are occurring. We are at best bridges; it is the community
itself that speaks and says what it feels in the face of certain
processes."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Jeanette Paillán - Photograph by Amalia Cordova, NMAI;
Jeanette Paillán at CLACPI - Photograph by Amalia Cordova
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