From Paper to Territory – and from Territory to the Screen

Thinking about this challenge from the very beginning, it was an easy thing: to make a documentary about El Yuguelito and the on-the-ground work through the CivActs methodology. Also, one that could expose the structural failures of participation mechanisms in Mexico City and serve as a portrait of urban inequality. And to do it as a civil society organization without any real audiovisual production capacity, while running two other programs at the same time, under budget limitations; oh, and with a four-person team. Did that discourage us? Not at all. But it was clear that every step we took [...]

2026-06-26T11:03:16+00:0026th June 2026|

(Del Papel Al Territorio) Y del Territorio a la Pantalla

Abordar este desafío no fue, desde el comienzo, cosa fácil: realizar un documental sobre El Yuguelito y el trabajo en territorio a través de la metodología CivActs, que permitiera evidenciar las fallas estructurales de los mecanismos de participación en la CDMX y sirviera, también, como un retrato de la desigualdad urbana. Y hacerlo como organización de la sociedad civil; es decir, sin capacidad real de producción audiovisual, implementando otros dos programas de forma simultánea, con restricciones presupuestales; ah, y con un equipo de cuatro personas. ¿Eso nos desincentivó? Para nada. Pero estaba claro que cada paso que diéramos tenía [...]

2026-06-26T11:00:58+00:0026th June 2026|

Who watches the rules of the game? Our experience as citizen observers

Throughout 2025, we accompanied the community of Yuguelito in Iztapalapa as they participated for the first time in Mexico City's Participatory Budgeting (PB). Things did not go as expected, however. The project the community put forward was rejected on vague and contradictory grounds, most notably the settlement's irregular status, which is not an official eligibility criterion. This experience made clear to us the enormous gap between what is designed on paper and what actually happens on the ground. It meant not only pointing out legal loopholes, but also making visible that the conditions for exercising the right to participate [...]

2026-06-08T13:05:43+00:008th June 2026|
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