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...Community” (copied in the sixteenth century by a Dominican Friar). Chocolate was made into a frothy and stimulating drink enjoyed by people across Central America. But it was also associated with blood, sacrifice and rebirth. For contemporary Mayans and other indigenous peoples in the region chocolate remains important, alongside the Easter eggs which, perhaps, resonate...

...communities have used film to record and validate their existence. It may be in the form of immigrant groups using film or video to preserve their culture or fight back in the face of economic and social discrimination, or town or village projects to record a perhaps vanishing way of life. Whatever the collective project, it has become a valuable way of using film to say...