Documentary Production and Distribution News

A new documentary film which features an appearance by Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum is currently touring film festivals worldwide. Granito follows the lives of five main characters whose destinies come together after decades of suffering and violence under dictatorial rule in Guatemala.

Granito is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present. In Granito the characters sift for clues buried in archives of mind and place and historical memory, seeking to uncover a narrative that could unlock the past and settle matters of life and death in the present. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in Granito are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal “scorched earth” campaign by the military exterminated nearly 200,000 Maya people. Now, as if a watchful Maya god were weaving back together threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time, forgotten by most, our characters become integral to the overarching narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have pieced together, each adding their Granito, their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.

Resources:

www.nobelwomensinitiative.org

skylightpictures.com/films/Granito