Cinema Campesino Traveling Film Festival
An Un Mundo traveling film festival started in July 2004, developed by Un Mundo volunteer Ronald Reinds, assisted by volunteer Lise Winters.
In an inspiring example of volunteer effort, Reinds began travelling to remote areas of Honduras in a camper of his own design and enlisting local aid in each site to set up an outdoor movie theater. After the showings, he would leave a copy of the movies for each community.
The films were selected to speak to the reality of the people's life, providing them with a vision they have been denied, helping them to understand their reality, and promoting unity and action as a way of bettering their situation. However, Reinds reported problems in obtaining a mix of suitable films to both entertain and enlighten the audiences.
By the end of August, the festival had four public showings, here reported in Reinds' own words:
1. Las Mangas, 17 July, organized by the community for the festival of the corn. Rain, Un Mundo documentary, no main movie, unknown amount of visitors.
2. El Pital, 25 July, organized by the health center. Partially rainy, goofy in Spanish, Un Mundo documentary and "Pirates of the Caribbean" (no good alternative present), 250 visitors, 350 lempiras profit for a latrine.
3. Las Mangas, 1 August, rerun of #1, 5 lempiras entrance for a school bell, with 50 paying visitors.
4. El Pital, 8 August, 250 visitors, 160 lempiras collected, movie was "Spiderman II."
Showing #4 was part of the Un Mundo Visions of Community festival.
Reinds' report continued in part:
Number two was the only one organized by a pre-selected community, which worked pretty well. The community made small posters and spread them in the Cuenca, they did not do radio. On the day itself there still wasn't electricity and since [store owner] Baudilio wouldn't give it, we had to go to the other side of the field. This meant that the screen was far away from the food stand. The nurse and her family had prepared it. It was delicious. They sold out. Nobody had thought of the possibility of rain, so no plastic was big enough to keep us dry. This problem was solved, but by the time it was dry enough for the equipment it was evident it was going to be late. This was true and when the movie ended, the field was practically deserted.
Reinds is also investigating the possibility of cooperation with Peace Corp volunteers in Honduras to work with him in bringing a festival showing to their communities.
To fund festival equipment and films, Reinds obtained a grant of more than $3200 from the Dutch organization HIVOS.


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