California Story Fund
Hunab Ku
Stage of the Arts. Inc.
Los Angeles
Project Director: Maria Esther Ortiz
Documenting Mayan lives in Los Angeles
Two famlies in the Mayan community in Los Angeles were the focus of this project.
The two families were the Ventura family, one of whose members is a Mayan priest with generations of memories and traditions from his native Guatemala, and the Quezada family, one of whose members – Roberto Quezada -- is a well-known Guatemalan writer.
The stories were gathered using video, photography and audio, and were presented to the general public at the 2005 annual Eco Maya Festival a multicultural environmental festival attended by thousands of people.