Sunday, March 3
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand
Up?
Monseñor: The Last Journey of
Oscar Romero
Documentary, USA, 2011, 80 min.
Saul Landau, Director
Documentary, USA, 2011, 88 min.
Ana Carrigan and Juliet Weber, Directors
Presented by Dr. Eric Yellin, Department of History,
University of Richmond
Presented by Dr. Peter Kaufman, Department of Religious Studies,
University of Richmond
The film chronicles half a century of hostile US-Cuba relations by telling
the story of “The Cuban Five”, intelligence agents sent to penetrate
Cuban exile terrorist groups in Miami and now serving long prison
sentences (One was recently released on probation after serving 13
years). The film combines fascinating archival footage with testimonies
by anti-Cuba militants, an imprisoned member of the Cuban Five, actor
and activist Danny Glover, and Fidel Castro himself (filmed recently).
A collection of rare recordings and film footage from the last three
years of Archbishop Romero’s life and a wide range of interviews
with those whose lives were changed by Romero, including
church activists, human right lawyers, former guerrilla fighters, and
politicians.
Artigas: La Redota
Juan of the Dead
Fiction, Uruguay, Spain, 2011, 118 min.
César Charlone, Director
Fiction, Cuba and Spain, 2011, 92 min.
Alejandro Brugués, Director
Presented by Dr. Manuella Meyer, Department of History,
University of Richmond
Presented by Abigail Cheever, Film Studies Program,
University of Richmond
In 1884, the famous Uruguayan painter Juan Manuel Blanes is asked by
the government to create a portrait of José Artigas. There is only one
drawing of his face, done in his old age, so Blanes must imagine what
he looked like by reading up on his ideas and learning about his life. The
film is a fresh look at the 1811 Orientales Exodus, one of the founding
myths of the Uruguayan nation.
A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government
and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the
government.
2 p.m.
6:10 p.m.
3:45 p.m.
Friday, March 1–Sunday, March 3
Robins School of Business,
Ukrop Auditorium
8:20 p.m.
filmstudies.richmond.edu
Latin America in the Movies
March 1–3, 2013 • Robins School of Business, Ukrop Auditorium
The Tucker-Boatwright Endowment Fund, the Film Studies Program, and the Department of Latin American and
Iberian Studies at the University of Richmond sponsor Latin America in the Movies.
Latin America in the Movies is a three-day film festival that brings films to Richmond that cannot be found in
local movie theaters or on television. Sixteen films, both features and documentaries from Argentina, Chile,
Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay, Italy, France, Switzerland, and the United States will be screened, with discussions
presented by filmmakers and specialists. The festival is linked to a class on Latin American cinema in which
students have the opportunity to meet Latin American film directors and learn about their craft.
The films selected have received numerous national and international awards, covering a wide range of
contemporary subjects: the Wars of Independence, Memory, labor and the environment, Liberation Theology,
political activism, family and adopted children from regions at war, trials against the paramilitary, and more. All
films have English subtitles. Presentations and Q&A will be conducted in English.
Friday, March 1
Saturday, March 2
Sunday, March 3
12 p.m.
Tumaco Pacifico, 90 min.
10:15 a.m.
Nostalgia for the Light,
90 min.
2 p.m.
Will the Real Terrorists
Please Stand Up, 80 min.
12 p.m.
Impunity, 85 min.
3:45 p.m.
Monseñor: The Last Journey
of Oscar Romero, 88 min.
12 p.m.–10 p.m.
1:45 p.m.
Children of Memory, 64 min.
3 p.m.
The Chilean Building,
95 min.
5 p.m.
Revolution: The Crossing of
the Andes, 93 min.
6:45 p.m.
Our Home On Our
Shoulders, 50 min.
8:15 p.m.
Crab Trap, 95 min.
10:15 a.m.–8 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
Marti-The Eye of the
Canary, 120 min.
3:45 p.m.
South Guañape, 27 min.
4:30 p.m.
Belgrano, 82 min.
6:15 p.m.
Generation Exile, 70 min.
Q&A with director Rodrigo
Dorfman
2 p.m.–10 p.m.
6:10 p.m.
Artigas: La Redota, 118 min.
8:20 p.m.
Juan of the Dead, 92 min.
Friday, March 1
Friday, March 1
Children of Memory
• 2010 LASA Aware of Merit in Film
Tumaco Pacífico
12 p.m.
Children of Memory
1:45 p.m.
Our Home On Our Shoulders
6:45 p.m.
Samuel Córdoba, Director
Documentary, Colombia, 2008, 90 min.
Maria Teresa Rodriguez, Director
Documentary, USA, 2012, 64 min.
Documentary, Colombia, 2010, 50 min.
Andrés García and Camilo Pérez, Directors
Presented by Dr. Mary Finley-Brook, Department of Geography and the
Environment, University of Richmond
Presented by Dr. Mckenna Brown, Office of International Education,
Virginia Commonwealth University
A journey into the pile-dwelling, Afro-Colombian communities of
Tumaco on the south Pacific coast of Colombia. Despite poverty, Tumaco
residents are honoring the ocean that feeds and bathes them. The
documentary gives voice to their residents, who provide testimonies of
their daily lives, surviving in an endangered environment.
The story of the search for hundreds of children who disappeared
during the Salvadoran Civil War, many who were survivors of
massacres carried out by the U.S.-trained Salvadoran Army.
Taken away from the massacre sites by soldiers, some grew up in
orphanages or were “sold” into adoption abroad not knowing their
true story or identity. The film weaves together three separate yet
intertwined journeys in the search for family, identity and justice in
El Salvador, and asks the larger question: How can a post-war society
right the wrongs of the past?
The film interlaces the stories of a group of five Afro-Colombian
young men and women whose lives were distressed by displacement
and resettlement in Medellin. A multimedia presentation parallels
the dynamism of the youth portrayed in the film.
Director Camilo Pérez will attend the screening
and participate in a Q&A after the projection.
The Chilean Building
• Festival Internacional de Documentales de
Santiago FIDOCS 2010
• CHILEREALITY 2010
• 2º Coral Documentary, Havana Film Festival 2010
• “Franja Dictadura y Memoria,” Festival Valparaíso
2011
• “Teens&Docs,” DOCSBarcelona 2011
• Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de
Indias 2011
• Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano, Cataluña 2011
• New York Latino Film Festival, HBO 2011
• Salvador Allende Award to the Best
Documentary
Revolution: The Crossing of the Andes
• Official selection, Mar Del Plata International Film
Festival
Crab Trap
• Official Selection, Berlin International Film
Festival
• Official Selection, Cartagena Film Festival
Nostalgia for the Light
The Chilean Building
3 p.m.
Macarena Aguiló, Director
Documentary, Chile, France, Cuba and Holland, 2010,
95 min.
Presented by Dr. Lucas Izquierdo, Department of Latin American and
Iberian Studies, University of Richmond
Towards the end of the seventies, the MIR militants exiled in Europe
decided to return to Chile to support the fight against Pinochet’s
dictatorship. Many had children and could not take them with them. To
shelter these children, the idea of a community center was born. Project
Home gathered 60 kids that were left to the care of 20 people, named
Social Parents. One of these children tells this story, which the story of
her life.
Revolution: The Crossing
of the Andes
5 p.m.
Fiction, Argentina, 2010, 93 min.
Leandro Piña, Director
Presented by Dr. Leonardo Bacarreza, Department of Latin American
and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond
The film is narrated by an elder who, in his youth, was an amanuensis
of General San Martin and in 1880 struggles to survive in a boarding
house. This intimate portrayal is interlaced with a visual deployment
of fantastic dimensions covering the first crossing of the Andes,
by which San Martin brought liberation to colonial Spanish South
America.
Crab Trap
8:15 p.m.
Fiction, Colombia, 2009, 95 min.
Oscar Ruiz Navia, Director
Presented by Dr. Brantley Nicholson, Department of Latin American
and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond
At La Barra, an isolated village on the Pacific Coast of Colombia,
Cerebro, leader of the native Afro-Colombian community, is at odds
with the white man, a landowner who wants to build a hotel on the
beach. Daniel, a strange and urban looking presence, arrives to the
village looking for a motorboat to leave the country. The film tells the
story of a young man trying to flee his past and the clash between a
remote village and modernity.
• Award of Merit in Film, 2012 Latin American
Studies Association (LASA)
• Best Film, 2011 International Documentary
Association (IDA)
• Best Documentary, Prix Arte, 2010 European Film
Academy Awards
• Best Documentary, 2010 Adu Dhabi Film Festival
Saturday, March 2
Saturday, March 2
Impunity
• Audience Award, FIDOCS, Santiago de Chile 2010
• Camera Justitia Award, Movies that Matter 2011,
The Hague
Nostalgia for the Light
Impunity
Belgrano
Documentary, France, Germany, and Chile, 2011,
90 min.
Patricio Guzmán, Director
Documentary, Switzerland, France, and Colombia, 2010, 85 min.
Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris, Directors
Fiction, Argentina, 2010, 82 min.,
Sebastián Pivotto, Director
In contemporary Colombia, paramilitary armies are accused of
killing thousands of Colombians and are put on trial to create “peace
and justice.” Instead, the process comes to an abrupt halt, when
the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are
uncovered. Are the victims’ families doomed to stay victims forever
or are they able to fight impunity?
Presented by Dr. Laura de Maria, University of Maryland, College Park
10:15 a.m.
The film stages the various layers of memory existing in the Atacama
Desert which includes the Pre-Columbian mummies, 19th century
explorers and miners, the remains of Pinochet political prisoners, and
the astral memory. The layers can be traced using the highest telescope
on earth, the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT is placed in the
Atacama Desert, to present a complex reflection on memory, violence,
and human survival.
12 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Based on the life of Argentine national hero Manuel Belgrano,
creator of the Argentine flag, the film focuses on the last 10 years of
a man devoted to build a nation and a democracy. Unusual trueness
in the treatment of a founding father brings additional interest to
this film.
• Prix Meilleur Documentaire, Recontres Cinéma
D’Amérique Latine de Toulouse, 2011 Festival
South Guañape
• 2012 Latin American Studies Association
• 2011 David L. Wolper Award, International
Documentary Association (IDA)
Artigas La Redota
• Audience Award, Gramado Film Festival
• Best Actor, Gramado Film Festival
• Best Director, Gramado Film Festival
• Best Film, Gramado Film Festival
• Kikito Critics Prize, Gramado Film Festival
Marti, the Eye of the Canary
• Best Cuban Film, Cuban Association of Film
Critics
• Colón de Plata Award for the Best Art Direction
and Best Photography (HUELVA)
• Best Cinematography, Havana Film Festival
• 36 Festival de Cine Iberoamericano
Mejor Fotografia: Raúl Perez Ureta
Mejor Director: Fernando Perez
Marti, the Eye of the Canary
Guañape sur (South Guañape)
Generation Exile
Fiction, Cuba, 2010, 120 min.
Fernando Pérez, Director
Documentary, Italy, 2010, 27 min.
János Richter, Director
Documentary, USA, 2010, 70 min.
Rodrigo Dorfman, Director
Presented by Dr. Ann Marie Stock, College of William & Mary
The film depicts a barren island off the coast of Peru, which is
a breeding ground for thousands of sea birds that are its sole
inhabitants. Once every 11 years, hundreds of men make their way
to the island to harvest the birds’ dried excrement, which is used as
valuable fertilizer.
When Rodrigo Dorfman was six years old, he was forced into exile
because of the revolutionary activities of his father, Chilean writer
Ariel Dorfman. Now, 35 years later, Rodrigo weaves his experience of
exile through the eyes of four women. Spanning four continents and
100 years of personal history, the film is a meditation on the search
for identity.
1:30 p.m.
The formative years of Cuban national hero José Martí are explored in a
historical epic set during the 1860s in colonial Havana. The film follows
“El Apóstol” from the ages of nine to 17, as he experiences firsthand the
often brutal inequalities of Spanish colonial rule, feels the fire of injustice
rise within him, and navigates personal conflict with his Spanish father.
3:45 p.m.
6:15 p.m.
Director Rodrigo Dorfman will attend the
screening and participate in a Q&A after the
projection.
Generation Exile
• 2010 LASA Award of Merit in Film
Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar
Romero
• 2010 LASA Award of Merit in Film
Juan of the Dead
• Silver Raven, Brussels International Festival of
Fantasy Film
• Fantasporto, International Fantasy Film Award,
Best Actor and Best Screenplay
• Miami Film Festival, Audience Award