April 4: Taller and Screening with Director Carlos Efraín Pérez Rojas

Carlos Efraín Pérez Rojas (Mixe) is a documentary videomaker who has focused his work on indigenous people, social movements, and human rights in Mexico. In 2005 he received the Reebok Human Rights Award, which honors activists under the age of 30, and included a grant to enable Pérez Rojas to continue his work. He was awarded a National Video Resources Media Arts Fellowship in 2002.

Taller, Noon, Location TBA
Join us for a screening of the short video "Mirando hacia dentro," and a discussion on documentary video making and the defense of human rights with director Carlos Perez. *Note: The taller will be conducted in Spanish.

Screening, 5-7 pm, McCormick Screening Room
Screening Dir. Carlos Perez's documentary Mëjk and its short companion video "Mood." The screening will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with the director.

About Mëjk 

Genaro Rojas — better known as “Naro” — takes us on a journey through the surreal and magical world of the Sierra Mixe in Oaxaca, Mexico. Naro enjoys dedicating time to adversities and fragments of daily life that may appear to lack any meaning, since he is able to explain how they form part of broader sociopolitical and philosophical contexts, an exercise he practices even when he teaches, dances, washes his clothes or gets a haircut. Following Naro through his daily life, the video provides insight into issues as diverse as Mexico's fraught education reform under President Peña Nieto and the social microcosm of Sierra Mixe's legendary bus drivers.