Alexandra Halkin/ Open Cinema Consortium

Alexandra Halkin, Open Cinema Consortium blog

Alexandra Halkin is a documentary video producer and Founding Director of the Chiapas Media Project/ Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria. In 1995, she developed the Chiapas Media Project (CMP)/Promedios, a bi-national partnership that provides video and computer equipment and training to indigenous communities in southern Mexico. Since 1998, the CMP/Promedios has trained over 200 indigenous men and women in video production in Chiapas and Guerrero, Mexico. CMP/Promedios award-winning videos have been broadcast in Mexico, US, Canada, and New Zealand and screened at film and video festivals, universities and museums worldwide. She has consulted with Witness and the Latin American Coordinator for Indigenous Film and Communication( CLACPI).