The documentarian and educator finds inspiration in the Mexican city’s community of young storytellers and climate activists.
Andrea Villarreal Rodriguez talks about her work as a filmmaker, teacher and climate activist, she exudes an honest hope. Her days, including weekends, typically involve touring locals through, a deserted, but critical water supply system for citizens of the urban center. Over the years the river, which frequently runs dry, has served as a soccer field, a motor racing track, or an amusement park — anything but a river — because until recently, people hadn’t regarded it as ecologically important.
“Once you’re down there on the river, you see the birds and hear the rustling of the trees. The morning light on the river is magical, it glows and glimmers a bit,” Villarreal Rodriguez reflects. “Some days, we also have the She became involved with the Santa Catarina while looking for stories for her capstone project in college. She developed a social media miniseries that focused on Monterrey communities exercising creative solutions to climate phenomena; including beekeepers, the Viaje al Microcosmos collective and a community of gardeners who cultivate food “on this tiny little piece of land in the middle of the city.
“Because we are portraying the impacts of the climate crisis on women and girls, there is no better person to tell those stories than the girls themselves.” And beyond the challenges they face,of adaptation, mitigation and resilience — like the rural community that harvests unique types of corn, and the way elderly women in particular are helping protect it from extinction.
“It’s part of the narrative I think I’m trying to build that there is natural beauty in my city, and we still have time and we need efforts to protect those last urban natural spaces. And I think that’s what’s going to happen,” she says.. “I want to keep doing storytelling, but it’s really urgent to try to save this natural space in my city. That’s taking a lot of my time right now,” she explains.
Her choice to study communications and pursue storytelling was also born in this spirit; it meant drifting from a reality in which she would spend her time building robots — which she can and has done — and perhaps would have for a living had she stuck with engineering.
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