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Rigoberta Menchu Featured in New Documentary Film
By StudentFilmmakers.com Staff
posted Jul 12, 2011, 11:50
A new documentary film which features an appearance by Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Mench� Tum is currently touring film festivals worldwide.
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
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