Filmmaker Anais Taracena
Join Holocaust Museum Houston in celebration of Indigenous Heritage Month as we feature artists, scholars, and films that pay tribute to Indigenous Peoples’ ancestry and traditions worldwide.
Film Synopsis:
During the war in Guatemala, the people who took refuge in the mountain created a health system as a way of survival in which they combined modern medicine with ancestral medicine. Nowadays, the Primavera del Ixcán Community continues to be inspired by this organizational health learning in the face of an almost total absence of the State in the region.
About the Filmmaker
Anais Taracena, filmmaker, producer and cultural manager, graduated with a Master’s degree in political science. She has directed short films and a medium-length film that have been screened at international festivals, universities and communities. As a cultural manager she has been part of film and video collective networks, organizing exhibitions, film-forums and teaching audiovisual workshops with young people in Guatemala. She is currently post-producing her feature documentary “El silencio del Topo.”
This film is screened in Spanish with English subtitles and will be followed by a live Q&A with filmmaker Anais Taracena.
Admission is free and open to the public. Donations are welcomed. Guests will receive a private Zoom link so advance registration is required.
