Alexandra Halkin

In 1998, Alexandra Halkin founded the Chiapas Media Project, an award-winning bi-national organization that trained over 200 indigenous men and women in video production in Southern Mexico. In 2004, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2007 was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2010, she founded the non-profit Americas Media Initiative which works with Cuban filmmakers living in Cuba. In 2021, she co-founded the Center for the Preservation of Community Audiovisual Archives in Chiapas, Mexico.

Alexandra Halkin is developing a feature documentary. The majority of the film will be crafted from the 1400 video tapes in the Center for Community Audiovisual Archives (CEPAAC) in Chiapas, Mexico. CEPAAC holds dozens of videos made by the Zapatista indigenous communities beginning in 1998. The film will contrast the archival footage against the infiltration of corporate social media in remote Zapatista territory, asking the crucial question: can the Zapatistas' political and cultural vision survive?