Yucatec Maya Film Project : the Maya rain ceremony, Ch'a Chaac

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Label

Yucatec Maya Film Project : the Maya rain ceremony, Ch'a Chaac

Title remainder

the Maya rain ceremony

Title part

Ch'a Chaac

Statement of responsibility

director, Hubert Smith

Title variation

Ch'a Chaac

Title variation remainder

("asking for rain")

Contributor

• Smith, Hubert L.

Director

• Smith, Hubert L.

Subject

• Documentary films
• Ethnographic films
• Mayas -- Mexico
• Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies
• Rain-making rites -- Mexico

Genre

• Documentary films
• Ethnographic films

Language

• eng
• spa
• myn
• eng

Summary

The Yucatec Maya Film Project began in 1976 when a team of North American ethnographic filmmakers lived and worked for a year in a small South Central Yucatec community. To date, four hour-long programs, 2The Living Maya,3 have been broadcast on PBS and distributed though Documentary Educational Resources in Watertown, MA and Alexander Street Press in Alexandria, VA. Subsequently the Project produced 2Yucatec Maya Deaf Sign,3 a documentary which studied deaf Maya persons and their unique, home-grown sign system. Recently, the Project released 2Ch{u2019}a Chaac The Maya Rain Ceremony,3 a chronicle of traditional magic and the many complications which arose in a community where age-old beliefs are under attack

Cataloging source

VaAlASP

Characteristic

videorecording

Language note

In English, Spanish, and Maya with English subtitles

Runtime

22

Target audience

adult