A Place Called Chiapas

A Place Called Chiapas
Directed byNettie Wild
Written byManfred Becker
Nettie Wild
Produced byBetsy Carson
Kirk Tougas
Nettie Wild
StarringSubcomandante Marcos
Samuel Ruiz García
CinematographyKirk Tougas
Nettie Wild
Edited byManfred Becker
Music byJoseph Pepe Danza
Salvador Ferreras
Celso Machado
Laurence Mollerup
Production
companies
Distributed byZeitgeist Films
Release date
  • 7 May 1998 (1998-05-07) (Germany)
Running time
89 min.
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of first-hand accounts of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) the (Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas) and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where the EZLN live and evade the Mexican Army.