A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 20, 1998Release Date
A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 20, 1998Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising.
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Cast & Crew.
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente
Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)
Samuel Ruiz García
Self
Javier Elorriaga
Self
Jorge Kanter
Self
Gonzalo Ituarte Icario
Self
Nettie Wild
Director / Writer / Director of Photography / Producer
Manfred Becker
Editor / Writer
Kirk Tougas
Director of Photography / Producer
Joseph Pepe Danza
Original Music Composer
Jesús Sánchez Padilla
Location Sound Recordist
Robin Lupita Bain
Additional Camera / Title Designer
Salvador Ferreras
Original Music Composer
Betsy Carson
Production Manager / Producer
Erick Nettel
Assistant Editor / Translator
Laurence Mollerup
Original Music Composer
Dieter Piltz
Dialogue Editor
Velcrow Ripper
Sound Designer
Rubén Möller
Animation
Celso Machado
Original Music Composer
Lionel Barton
Colorist
Sue Gourley
Title Designer
Eduardo Herrera
Additional Camera
Serge Gaspard Gaudreau
Title Designer
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 20, 1998
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Budget$891,000
Box Office$229,000
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
woman director
mexico
1990s
zapatista
refugee
Wiki.
A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of first-hand accounts of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) the (Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas) and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where the EZLN live and evade the Mexican Army.
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