Subject: Georgetown Latin American Film Festival
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** Georgetown Latin American Film Festival
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** Friday March 27
Saturday March 28th
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** CUTTING-EDGE FILMS ON HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA AND POST-FILM DISCUSSIONS WITH DISTIGUSHED LEADERS AND ACADEMICS
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Reserve Tickets - FREE (http://guclas-glaff-2015.eventbrite.com)

** Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
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**  Friday, March 27
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Healey Family Student Center
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In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court charged former dictator Efraín Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war against the country’s Mayan people in the 1980s.  Pamela Yates’ 1983 documentary,  When the Mountains Tremble, provided key evidence for bringing the indictment. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator tells the extraordinary story of how a film, aiding a new generation of human rights activists, became a granito — a tiny grain of sand — that helped tip the scales of justice. (Courtesy: PBS POV).

Director: Pamela  Yates
(Documentary Film  - USA, Guatemala, Spain 2011)

Following the viewing, a discussion will be led by Dr. Claudia Paz y Paz, the former Attorney General of Guatemala who oversaw the unprecedented prosecution of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt for the crime of genocide.
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** Which Way Home
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** SATURDAY, MARCH 28
2:00 PM - 4:00PM
Walsh 495
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As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States. The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call "The Beast." These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the ones you never hear about – the invisible ones. (Courtesy: Which Way Home)

Documentary
Director: Rebecca Cammisa
USA 2009

Following the viewing, a discussion will be led by Dr. Emilio Álvarez Icaza,  the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Comission of Human Rights of the Organization of American States.
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** Presunto Culpable
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** SATURDAY, MARCH 28
5:30 PM - 7:00PM
Healey Family Student Center

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Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. In December 2005 this happened to Toño Zúñiga in Mexico City and, like thousands of other innocent people, he was wrongfully imprisoned. The award-winning Presumed Guilty is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zúñiga. With no background in film, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete set about recording the injustices they were witnessing, enlisting acclaimed director Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon, POV 2009) to tell this dramatic story. (Courtesy: PBS POV)

Director: Roberto Hernadez / Geoffrey Smith
Mexico 2011

Following the viewing, a discussion will be led by Dr. Duncan Wood, Director of the Mexico Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center
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