The Video Reporter » women

Video: “Tracing Aleida” director on making the film and Mexico’s “dirty war”

MexicoReporter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:13:52 +0000

This is a longer version of an edited interview with the director Christiane Burkhard about her documentary film project, "Tracing Aleida".

Eufrosina Cruz: Indigenous women's rights vs. culture in Mexico

MexicoReporter — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:03:06 +0000

Cruz is a 28-year-old indigenous woman from the state of Oaxaca who is an activist for the rights of indigenous women. Cruz rebelled against the restrictions of her own community to become a college-educated accountant.

Video: Peter Gabriel asks for political will to end impunity over Ciudad Juarez’s dead women

MexicoReporter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:58:10 +0000

Peter Gabriel implored President Calderon to show "real political will, muscle and budget" in investigating the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez.

Video: Cars inspire Mexican artist’s show with a green message

MexicoReporter — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:44:24 +0000

Mexico visual artist Betsabee Romero used cars to create installations for “A vuelta de rueda (driving slowly),” an outdoor exhibition in downtown Mexico City that has a decidedly green feel to it.

Video: Carmen Aristegui talks about the reality for journalists in Mexico

MexicoReporter — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:22:36 +0000

Carmen Aristegui, one of Mexico’s most prominent journalists, disappeared from the Mexican radio airwaves last year in a cloud of controversy. As Reed Johnson reported in January 2008, “Aristegui’s departure from W Radio set off a flurry of op-ed commentary in Mexico City newspapers. Several commentators have denounced the incident as an act of censorship and harassment by media and governmental interests.” Now Aristegui’s back with a new radio news show –- this time on a different network. The journalist, who continued to host her nightly television news show on CNN Español during her radio hiatus, returns to the Mexican airwaves from 6 – 10 every weekday morning on MVS Radio.

Video: Carmen Aristegui habla sobre la realidad en México para los periodistas

MexicoReporter — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:34:14 +0000

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Film defends Mexican woman imprisoned in Texas

MexicoReporter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:31:33 +0000

Rosa Jimenez, a 26-year-old Mexican woman, could currently be serving a sentence of 99 years in a Texas prison for a crime she didn't commit, according to Lucía Gajá, 34, the young Mexican director of the documentary “Mi Vida Dentro (My Life Inside).” The film takes aim at the United States criminal-justice system and its treatment of Mexican undocumented female migrants. It is told through the case of Jimenez, who crossed illegally into the United States when she was 17 years old. Clearly on the side of the defendant, the film combines the words of Jimenez, her defense lawyers and the prosecution to lay out what ends up a chilling depiction. “Mi Vida Dentro” debuted in Mexico last week in cinemas across the capital, and is the first feature-length film from Gajá, who is a graduate of CUEC, the cinema program of the Autonomous National University of Mexico. It’s also the first Mexican documentary to be distributed by Ambulante, the film festival created by two of Mexico’s most bankable stars, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, in 2006.

Mexican men ask for an end to violence against women

MexicoReporter — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:30:00 +0000

A campaign featuring well-known men in Mexico asks that their fellow males stop beating up and abusing women. Do Mexican men need to be told by other Mexican men to stop beating up and abusing women?

Bajo Juarez campaigns for the dead women of Ciudad Juarez

MexicoReporter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:29:50 +0000

Lilia Alejandra is one of the 370 women who have disappeared in Mexico's Chihuahua state since 1993. Her story is the main focus of Bajo Juárez, a documentary film that was five years in the making and opened here in Mexico this weekend.

Mexico church assailed for maligning miniskirt

MexicoReporter — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:12:50 +0000

Last week's condemnation of the mini-skirt by the Mexican Catholic Church has enraged some Mexican women, who say that church's statement that women should wear less provocative clothing makes it easier to justify rape and other forms of violence against them.