Award-Winning Filmmaker Yolanda Cruz Presents Her New Film on Immigration and Indigenous Identity in the Global Economy

Award-Winning Filmmaker Yolanda Cruz Presents Her New Film on Immigration and Indigenous Identity in the Global Economy

Yolanda Cruz, an
award-winning Chatino filmmaker from Oaxaca, Mexico and an Evergreen
graduate, will present her most recent film, "2501 Migrants," and
discuss her experiences filming in indigenous Oaxacan villages, where
migration to the U.S. has significantly changed the reality of life on
both sides of the border.

“2501 Migrants: A Journey” explores global migration through the art of
Oaxacan artist Alejandro Santiago. Upon his return from France to his
village, Teococuilco, Alejandro realizes that Oaxaca has emerged as one
of Mexico's leading exporters of human labor to the United States.  In
response, he decides to create a monumental installation art work: 2,501
life-size sculptures, each one in homage to a migrant who has left
his/her village.

Yolanda's work has received support from The Rockefeller Foundation,
Latino Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. Her films have been
screened at film festivals and museums, including the Sundance Film
Festival, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Parc la Villette in Paris
and the National Institute of Cinema in Mexico City. She is a Sundance
Institute NativeLab fellow, and has produced seven documentaries on
native people in the U.S. and Mexico. Yolanda is fluent in English,
Spanish and Chatino. A pervasive theme of all her work has been to
increase representation of indigenous people in the media.

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 7pm in Lecture Hall One
Free and Open to all

Sponsored by Nonfiction Media, First Peoples Advising, LASO and MEChA
For further information, please contact
Anne Fischel
fischela@evergreen.edu
(360) 867-6416