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La vida de las Juanas.

Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Organization)
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Title
La vida de las Juanas.
Author/Creator
Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Organization)
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Access is open to all web users, Copyright holder: Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA), Contact information: Isabel Suárez, Avenida Argentina #14, Barrio de Mexicanos, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México 29249, +52-967-678-6730 (business), +52-967-678-6730 (fax), fomma@prodigy.com.mx, isabel3414@hotmail.com
Language
Spanish
Date
©1999
Format
1 online resource (1 video file of 1 (digital Betacam) (46 min.)) : sound, color.
Credits
Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA), writer, producer. Isabel Juárez Espinosa, Petrona de la Cruz Cruz, María Pérez Sántiz, María Francisca Oseguera Cruz, Reina Ruiz Navarro, Faustina López Díaz.
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FOMMA - Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya - is a collective of Mayan women who use theater as a tool for education and community building. They are performers, playwrights, and teachers who tour their work in their communities and internationally, performing plays that focus on women's and indigenous rights, literacy, cultural survival, ecology, health, and education in the Tzeltal and Tzotzil indigenous languages. 'La vida de las Juanas' portraits a group of women who, in search of a better life, leave their community to try their luck in the city. After they are cheated and mistreated by the people they encounter in the city, they meet a woman who directs them to an institution in which they can participate in different workshops and learn to speak louder and defend themselves. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

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