With the support of our donors, Ixcanul Foundation has sought to democratize access to high-quality multimedia content, promoting the participation of marginalized communities and minority groups in art.
The Ixcanul Foundation has been carrying out activities that allow addressing local issues and problems such as poverty and inequality, racism, environmental conflicts and sustainable economic opportunities, etc.
In partnership with La Casa de Producción, during 2016 and 2017, 50 forums were organized to project Bustamante´s first film, Ixcanul, to high school students in different towns of Guatemala.
These fora focused on Ixcanul's main themes, notably early and forced marriage, adolescent sexuality, and migration.
Since 2020, Ixcanul Foundation is part of a coalition working in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras with grassroots, first and second level cooperatives and producer associations to support the economic participation of women in sustainable agricultural production.
The Ixcanul Foundation collaborates, in addition to the transfer of technical capacities to local partners that allow stories about their processes to be compiled, in promoting that the narratives, the perceptions of positive change, and the indicators of success, come from the women themselves and in this way, contribute to their empowerment and promotion of their work, and promote a way of measuring change from the bottom up.
This project seeks to democratize access to high-quality multimedia content, including movies and other forms of audio and video in different regions of Guatemala, giving priority to communities with little access to quality content.
Itinerant artistic festivals have been carried out with content film screenings, forums, exhibitions, artistic workshops, and other activities that address local issues and problems such as poverty and inequality, racism, environmental conflicts and sustainable economic opportunities, etc.
(With the support of Ford Foundation y Rockefeller Brothers Fund).
During 2021, in coordination with rural groups and associations, 11 screenings, along with discussion forums, of Bustamante´s last film La Llorona (2019) were held in five rural communities of Guatemala. Safe spaces for respectful dialogue, thoughtful analysis and the exchange of ideas about the local historical memory and the current realities of the territories were created.
(With the support of Oxfam Intermón).