Karla Vanesa Ordoñez Sánchez
Vanesa is a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist, born in 1997 in a marginalized urban neighborhood on the outskirts of Guatemala City. With aspirations to work as a journalist, but with economic difficulties and few options to choose from, Vanesa graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences with a focus on radio broadcasting at the Montenevado Educational Center, a place that her parents paid for with their hard work. Vanesa begam to venture in the world of documentary filmmaking as a student in 2017 at the Casa Comal Film School, obtaining a diploma in “Film and Television.” In addition to these projects, Vanesa has worked as a consultant for several NGOs, carrying out institutional projects to document activities, processes, and the implementation of projects and programs. She is also an active member of the Colectivo Festivales Solidarios.
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Articles by Karla Vanesa Ordoñez Sánchez
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The Legacy of the Ajq’ij: Bridging Our Past and Present
In the heart of the indigenous territories in Guatemala, the ancestral knowledge of Mayan healers resonates, as guardians of millenary wisdom and caretakers of the health and wellbeing of their communities. The Ajq’ijab’ (timekeepers) not only heal the body, but are care for the spirit and to help us keep our connection with Mother Earth…
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Women Defend the Ancestral Art of Ceramics in Santa Cruz Chinautla, Guatemala
High above in the Guatemalan mountains, among its majestic lakes and rivers that nourish the earth like living veins, there is a land that safeguards the millenary memory of ancient populations. The Poqomam people, and their territory, have lived and survived there through their art, through clay, which is an essential resource for the creation…