Back around here after the last Mexican adventure, and while we edit Land of Amber, we are using Vimeo's new fantastic On Demand system to distribute our very first film: After the Revolution, also filmed in the South of Mexico.
It's about the impact of the Zapatista...
[caption id="attachment_1464" align="aligncenter" width="600"] For those who are blind to children working in the amber business and in Mexico[/caption]
It's almost 8pm on our last day of filming in Chiapas. We had a second great interview with an amber shop owner and collector this morning and...
[caption id="attachment_1429" align="aligncenter" width="600"] San Cristobal from the Guadalupe Virgin's church[/caption]
Well, I thought I was going to escape Moctezuma's vengeance this time, we're almost at the end of the trip, but it sneaks up on me in the middle of the night, and I spend...
Before we head back to San Cristobal we organise a visit to meet one more possible contributor, a Simojovel native who's an artisan and merchant and has shops both in Simojovel and San Cristobal. Alicia and I go to his house in the morning and...
We're woken up by a call to Alicia's cell at 5:30 am, excited that we're going to be told to come along this morning. False alarm, it's someone else asking her a favour. Later on, she tries to call Dionisio and then his wife Esperanza...