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2008 | Color | 25 min

Two young Triki students attending the Bilingual Teachers? College of the Mexican state of Oaxaca (Escuela Normal Bilingüe e Intercultural de Oaxaca) watched Al Gore?s documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about the threat of global warming. Seeking to share this environmental message with their community as well as to promote the use of the Nanj Nï?ïn language (also known as Triki) in new spaces, the students decided to make a voice-over of the film in their language. In order to translate the script, the students carried out a series of workshops and consultations within the community, to recover words that were no longer in use and to generate new words that they now propose to the Triki community of Yuma? Niko (San Andrés Chicahuaxtla) and neighboring towns.


Country: México
Direction: Porraz; Bernardo
Script: Porraz; Bernardo, Hernández; José Manuel, Vázquez; Ezequiel
Production: Alfredo Harp Helú; Fundación
Photography: Porraz; Bernardo
Sound: Porraz; Bernardo, Jiménez; Ramón
Cast:Celia Vázquez; Ana, Vázquez; Juan
Participation year at FICM: 2008

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