A BIGGER PLACE
Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. When the people of Tila and other villages run the town hall and police out of their territory, they face the challenge of exercising self-governance. "A Bigger Place" draws on the tradition of direct cinema to explore the day-to-day construction of autonomy. In a region historically marked by paramilitary violence and Zapatista aspirations, the film narrates how self-governance becomes a moral responsibility to oneself and others. A collective and multi-generational adventure in Mayan Ch'ol territory.
Editor, filmmaker and producer. After the completion of a master's degree in Philosophy from the Paris1-Sorbonne University, followed by Film Studies, he worked as an editor in Paris. In the 2000s, he devoted himself to providing audiovisual training in Zapatista villages in Chiapas and made several short films as well as the feature doc "¡Viva México!". He subsequently co-founded the production house Terra Nostra Films (2009) and the Documentary Film School of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (2016), which have produced several local authors, such as Mayan Tsotsil filmmakers Xun Pérez and Xun Sero. He’s co-editor and one of the authors of the book “Cine político en México (1968-2017)” (Peter Lang, 2019), and one of the authors of "Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today" (Sternberg Press, 2024). "A Bigger Place" is his second feature doc as a director.
