Blog written by Patricia Zimmermann, professor of cinema, photography and media arts and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

JUST IN!

As promised a few weeks on this blog, Lauro Zavala, Mexican film and literary scholar and the head of Sepancine, has sent us his list of the top ten best Mexican documentaries  that we in el norte need to see.

He writes "Here are some recent interesting documentaries produced in the past ten years in Mexico, which belong in an avalanche of festivals, archives, and conferences devoted to them in all of Latin America."

TOP TEN MEXICAN DOCUMENTARIES
 
Promesas (Carlos Bolado y B. C. Goldberg, 2001)
Already a classic about the perspective of children in Palestine-Israel war
 
Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa (Gregorio Rocha, 2003)
Metafictional trip around a dozen international archives in search of lost reels
 
Los últimos zapatistas (Francisco Taboada, 2005)
Last survivors of the original Zapata rebellion 
 
Los que se quedan (Juan Carlos Rulfo, 2008)
Lives of those who do not cross the border in the same family
 
¿Más vale maña que fuerza? (María del Carmen de Lara, 2007)
Women wrestlers talk about their career

Ramo de fuego (Maureen Gosling & Ellen Osborne, 2000)
Zapoteca women in southern Oaxaca
 
Laberintos de la memoria (Guita Schyfter, 2007)
Two women in search for their origins, whether in Chiapas or Lituania
 
Bajo Juárez (Alejandra Sánchez & José Antonio Cordero, 2006)
Ciudad Juárez: 500 dead women in 15 years

Ni muy, muy... ni tan, tan... simplemente... Tin Tan
(Manuel Márquez, 2005)
Thorough research on the most popular comedian in Mexican cinema
 
Un retrato de Diego (Gabriel Figueroa Flores & Diego López Rivera, 2007)
Recovery of lost materials filmed by Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Special Treats If You Read This Far: DOCUMENTARY MUSIC VIDEOS FROM MEXICO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDeK-9MeBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajYzKCy8NDc 
 

 
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