Silvia Nunez Esquer
Ismene Figueroa Lopez is one of the fellows the I nstitute S onorense of C ulture to participate in training for film and video producers , who as a result of learned will make a documentary with a gender perspective, of representations cultural rights of women in the neighborhood of El Coloso.
The Sonoran Institute of Culture and the National Council for Culture and the Arts, through the program Competitive Funds announced that it will be thirty people involved in the Diploma in Documentary Project Development to be held from May 6 to June 19, 2011.
The course "Visions in the desert 2011," aims to promote training, independent audiovisual production and dissemination for cultural purposes to strengthen and boost the knowledge and the promotion of heritage cultural and artistic heritage of Sonora.
The selection committee consists of Guadalupe Osuna Lizarraga, Monica Luna and Ignacio Castillo Sayos Arvayo, reviewed sixty-eight pre proposals received, of which elected thirty applicants with requests from municipalities Cajeme Sonora, Junction, Nogales, Puerto Penasco and Hermosillo.
documentary on women and culture in El Coloso
Ismene Figueroa was selected to receive training in documentary production, and the project seeks to document the ways in which women are involved in the processes of production, circulation and social appropriation of cultural meanings and social groups and individuals assigned to them, neighborhood defined context Colossus of Hermosillo, Sonora.
In the presentation of their project, Figueroa López argues that cultural heritage is a heritage, a connection to the past, values, identity, which is not defined by itself, but represents a complex social construct that represents ideologies in particular historical contexts, which involved groups and key sectors that traditionally have been expressed in male dominance over women.
Women have been present in all social processes, from the formation of districts and neighborhood committees, to traditional festivals, gastronomy, social movements, crafts, ancient knowledge of medicine, religion, Finally, in all public and private spaces where cultural heritage is built. However, their participation has historically invisible, he said.
The project will focus on the role of women in the construction of cultural heritage and ways involved in cultural processes. Through documentary expose what they value women in the private sector in relation to: housing, jobs, neighborhoods and districts, the city, street, and the territories.
In the public sector those related to: stories and identities, collective memory, struggles and organizations, and lifestyles, crafts and trades.
"I chose the neighborhood the Colossus for its natural and cultural wealth. Women who left their native peoples, and younger ones born and bred in the city, and mothers who have seen their relatives to emigrate to America in search of the American Dream "describes Ismene.
The neighborhood considered important because in the statue was carried out the most important rituals of Lent. It has a sports complex new sports introduced to the female sector.
In this community still commercial practices are used elsewhere in the city have disappeared, such as cars grocers and tortilla, making women household products sector and is a colony highly valued in election periods, where women play roles as community leaders, is complete.
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