Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

Karin de Miguel Wessendorf (born in 1974, in Barcelona) is a filmmaker and author of numerous television documentaries and radio features on social and environmental issues. She traveled to Mexico in 2005 on a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and worked for Promedios, an NGO promoting the indigenous documentary films of Zapatista communities. Her research on media usage within social movements was followed by publications, lectures, and workshops on video activism, community media and politically engaging documentary film.