Zoila Jiménez

Zoila Margarita Jiménez Pacheco was born in 1978 and is a native of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. She studied at the Autonomous University of Yucatán in the Facultyof Anthropological Sciences in the specialty of Social Anthropology and completed her thesis "Religious diversity. Beliefs and rituals in a Mayan community. " Zoila has been interested in issues such as religious diversity in Indigenous communities, international migration and the integration of young people into the labour market. Her work experience focused on the work of social research at the Department of Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, in the CIESAS Peninsular, The University of Florida and the Center for Comparative Migration Studies at the University of California-San Diego. Cultural Enterprise Management in A.C., l Institute for Sustainable Development in Mesoamerica and currently in Haciendas del Mundo Maya Foundation. Parallel to her academic training, Zoila has also been dedicated to developing skills in audiovisual media, taking up photography in 1998 in analog and digital techniques. She is part of the Kayche Collective that runs the the Film and Video Festival Kayche' Tejidos Visuales, which is a window that evokes dialogue in order to promote self-representation and demand catalysts for change in an unequal world.

KAYCHE

The Film and Video Festival "Kayche' Tejidos Visuales" or Visual Fabrics, is presented by the Kayche Collective. They present a window that evokes dialogue in order to promote self-representation and demand catalysts for change in an unequal world. Aside from the hands-on work that the Kayche Collective does, they also engage local artists such as Judzil Palma who produced the promotional animation for the 2015 Kayche' Tejidos Visuales. The Kayche Festival logo depicts an eye, which, for the 2015 award and their short animated promo, is based on a traditional Mayan story of a bird that was chosen as a custodian of the maize kernel. The Ts'iu bird went into the fire, and came out jet black, with red eyes.

a short animation by Judzil Palma and represented by Kayche Festival Director Zoila Jiménez.