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Alexandra Halkin
is an independent documentary video producer and the founding director
of the Chiapas Media Project/ Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria.
She has been producing documentaries for the last 25 years. In 1995,
she started developing the Chiapas Media Project (CMP)/Promedios, a
bi-national partnership that provides video and computer equipment and
training for 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. Alexandra has consulted with various organizations such as
Witness, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, and
CLACPI (Latin American Council for Indigenous Film and Communication).
In 2004, Alexandra was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Latin
American Indigenous Video Initiative (LAIVI). Most recently in 2007,
Alexandra was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the Indigenous
Audiovisual Archive (IAA) in Oaxaca, Mexico.