''Kumeyaay Land'' is a 2024 Mexican

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

short film made in the

Kumeyaay The Kumeyaay, also known as 'Iipai-Tiipai or by the historical Spanish name Diegueño, is a tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the Uni ...

community of San José de la Zorra in

Valle de Guadalupe The Valle de Guadalupe (Guadalupe Valley) is an agricultural region in the Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, Mexico that produces an estimated 70 percent of Mexican wine. In recent years, it has become a popular tourist destination for wi ...

Baja California Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of B ...

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

, directed by

Dylan Verrechia Dylan Verrechia (born March 9, 1976, in Paris) is a Barthélemois award-winning film director, auteur, screenwriter, director of photography, and producer, with Italian, Breton, Sephardic, and Dane origins. He is best known for his Tijuana tril ...

, commissioned by the head of the community Eva Carillo and Fausto Diaz Carillo. The documentary received the Red Nation Film Award of Excellence for Best Documentary Short Subject at the

Red Nation Film Festival The Red Nation Film Festival is a film festival focused on films about indigenous people. The festival was founded in 1995 and is curated by Joanelle Romero. It is unconnected to The Red Nation. History The Red Nation Film Festival was fo ...

, the Environmental, Social, Economic, Political Justice Award for Indigenous America at Latino & Native American Film Festival, and the Honorable Mention for Best Mexican Documentary at

Shorts México The Mexico International Short Film Festival - Shorts México - is a film festival exclusively dedicated to short films in Mexico. Since 2006, it has been held annually during the first week of September in Mexico City, in addition to having a nat ...

Synopsis

Living in their ancestral home of Baja California, Mexico, the Kumeyaay community of San José de la Zorra are resisting the invasion to keep their culture, their land and their water.

Awards

Kumeyaay Land Dylan Verrechia Films Red Nation Film Festival WhatsApp Image 2024-11-17 at 22

* Red Nation Film Award of Excellence for Best Documentary Short Subject at

, * Honorable Mention for Best Mexican Documentary at

, * Environmental, Social, Economic, Political Justice Award for Indigenous America at Latino & Native American Film Festival

References

External links

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