<font face="courier new,monospace"><font size="4"><font face="georgia,serif">Training Young Mapuche Filmmakers in Chile<br>By Daniela Estrada<br><br>SANTIAGO, May 6, 2010 (IPS) - "I want to film the few untouched natural resources we have left and show the injustices that have been committed against our communities," Claura Anchio, who took part in an innovative free filmmaking course for young Mapuche Indians in Chile, told IPS.<br>
<br>Anchio was referring to a number of garbage dumps and water treatment plants installed near Mapuche lands in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía. <br><br>Because of these developments, Mapuche communities have accused the Chilean state of "environmental racism" before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). <br>
<br>The 27-year-old Anchio is one of 20 young Mapuche selected to attend the first course ever organised to teach filmmaking to members of Chile's largest native group, in order to draw attention to their experiences and problems. <br>
<br>Taiñ Azkintun ("Our View" in the Mapuche language) is the name of this initiative organised by the non-governmental Citizen's Observatory and the Mapuche newspaper Azkintuwe. The course is financed by the Canadian embassy and sponsored by La Frontera University and the Catholic University of Temuco, both based in Araucanía. <br>
<br>"The idea is to give them basic but essential tools so that they can inform and communicate from their communities, whether in the sphere of reporting wrongs, communicating culture or maintaining and recovering language," Mapuche journalist Pedro Cayuqueo, the editor of Azkintuwe and one of the project's coordinators, told IPS. <br>
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