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Sunday, March 3 Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Monseñor: The Last Journey of Up? Oscar Romero 2 p.m. 3:45 p.m. Documentary, USA, 2011, 80 min. Documentary, USA, 2011, 88 min. Saul Landau, Director Ana Carrigan and Juliet Weber, Directors Presented by Dr. Eric Yellin, Department of History, Presented by Dr. Peter Kaufman, Department of Religious Studies, University of Richmond University of Richmond The film chronicles half a century of hostile US-Cuba relations by telling A collection of rare recordings and film footage from the last three Friday, March 1–Sunday, March 3 the story of “The Cuban Five”, intelligence agents sent to penetrate years of Archbishop Romero’s life and a wide range of interviews Cuban exile terrorist groups in Miami and now serving long prison with those whose lives were changed by Romero, including Robins School of Business, sentences (One was recently released on probation after serving 13 church activists, human right lawyers, former guerrilla fighters, and years). The film combines fascinating archival footage with testimonies politicians. by anti-Cuba militants, an imprisoned member of the Cuban Five, actor Ukrop Auditorium and activist Danny Glover, and Fidel Castro himself (filmed recently). Artigas: La Redota Juan of the Dead 6:10 p.m. 8:20 p.m. Fiction, Uruguay, Spain, 2011, 118 min. Fiction, Cuba and Spain, 2011, 92 min. César Charlone, Director Alejandro Brugués, Director Presented by Dr. Manuella Meyer, Department of History, Presented by Abigail Cheever, Film Studies Program, University of Richmond University of Richmond In 1884, the famous Uruguayan painter Juan Manuel Blanes is asked by A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government the government to create a portrait of José Artigas. There is only one and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the drawing of his face, done in his old age, so Blanes must imagine what government. 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. lmstudies.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.–10 p.m. 10:15 a.m.–8 p.m. 2 p.m.–10 p.m. 12 p.m. 10:15 a.m. 2 p.m. Tumaco Pacifico, 90 min. Nostalgia for the Light, Will the Real Terrorists 90 min. Please Stand Up, 80 min. 1:45 p.m. Children of Memory, 64 min. 12 p.m. 3:45 p.m. Impunity, 85 min. Monseñor: The Last Journey 3 p.m. of Oscar Romero, 88 min. The Chilean Building, 1:30 p.m. 95 min. Marti-The Eye of the 6:10 p.m. Canary, 120 min. Artigas: La Redota, 118 min. 5 p.m. Revolution: The Crossing of 3:45 p.m. 8:20 p.m. the Andes, 93 min. South Guañape, 27 min. Juan of the Dead, 92 min. 6:45 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Our Home On Our Belgrano, 82 min. Shoulders, 50 min. 6:15 p.m. 8:15 p.m. Generation Exile, 70 min. Crab Trap, 95 min. Q&A with director Rodrigo Dorfman Friday, March 1 Friday, March 1 Children of Memory • 2010 LASA Aware of Merit in Film The Chilean Building • Festival Internacional de Documentales de Tumaco Pacífico Children of Memory Our Home On Our Shoulders Santiago FIDOCS 2010 12 p.m. 1:45 p.m. 6:45 p.m. • CHILEREALITY 2010 Samuel Córdoba, Director Maria Teresa Rodriguez, Director Documentary, Colombia, 2010, 50 min. • 2º Coral Documentary, Havana Film Festival 2010 Documentary, Colombia, 2008, 90 min. Documentary, USA, 2012, 64 min. Andrés García and Camilo Pérez, Directors • “Franja Dictadura y Memoria,” Festival Valparaíso 2011 Presented by Dr. Mary Finley-Brook, Department of Geography and the Presented by Dr. Mckenna Brown, Office of International Education, The film interlaces the stories of a group of five Afro-Colombian Environment, University of Richmond Virginia Commonwealth University young men and women whose lives were distressed by displacement • “Teens&Docs,” DOCSBarcelona 2011 and resettlement in Medellin. A multimedia presentation parallels • Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de A journey into the pile-dwelling, Afro-Colombian communities of The story of the search for hundreds of children who disappeared the dynamism of the youth portrayed in the film. Indias 2011 Tumaco on the south Pacific coast of Colombia. Despite poverty, Tumaco during the Salvadoran Civil War, many who were survivors of • Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano, Cataluña 2011 residents are honoring the ocean that feeds and bathes them. The massacres carried out by the U.S.-trained Salvadoran Army. Director Camilo Pérez will attend the screening documentary gives voice to their residents, who provide testimonies of Taken away from the massacre sites by soldiers, some grew up in • New York Latino Film Festival, HBO 2011 their daily lives, surviving in an endangered environment. orphanages or were “sold” into adoption abroad not knowing their and participate in a Q&A after the projection. • Salvador Allende Award to the Best true story or identity. The film weaves together three separate yet intertwined journeys in the search for family, identity and justice in Documentary El Salvador, and asks the larger question: How can a post-war society right the wrongs of the past? 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 • Award of Merit in Film, 2012 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) The Chilean Building Revolution: The Crossing Crab Trap • Best Film, 2011 International Documentary 3 p.m. 8:15 p.m. Association (IDA) of the Andes • Best Documentary, Prix Arte, 2010 European Film Macarena Aguiló, Director 5 p.m. Fiction, Colombia, 2009, 95 min. Academy Awards Documentary, Chile, France, Cuba and Holland, 2010, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Director • Best Documentary, 2010 Adu Dhabi Film Festival 95 min. Fiction, Argentina, 2010, 93 min. Leandro Piña, Director Presented by Dr. Brantley Nicholson, Department of Latin American Presented by Dr. Lucas Izquierdo, Department of Latin American and and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond Iberian Studies, University of Richmond Presented by Dr. Leonardo Bacarreza, Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond At La Barra, an isolated village on the Pacific Coast of Colombia, Towards the end of the seventies, the MIR militants exiled in Europe Cerebro, leader of the native Afro-Colombian community, is at odds decided to return to Chile to support the fight against Pinochet’s The film is narrated by an elder who, in his youth, was an amanuensis with the white man, a landowner who wants to build a hotel on the dictatorship. Many had children and could not take them with them. To of General San Martin and in 1880 struggles to survive in a boarding beach. Daniel, a strange and urban looking presence, arrives to the shelter these children, the idea of a community center was born. Project house. This intimate portrayal is interlaced with a visual deployment village looking for a motorboat to leave the country. The film tells the Home gathered 60 kids that were left to the care of 20 people, named of fantastic dimensions covering the first crossing of the Andes, story of a young man trying to flee his past and the clash between a Social Parents. One of these children tells this story, which the story of by which San Martin brought liberation to colonial Spanish South remote village and modernity. her life. America. Saturday, March 2 Saturday, March 2 Impunity • Audience Award, FIDOCS, Santiago de Chile 2010 • Camera Justitia Award, Movies that Matter 2011, The Hague • Prix Meilleur Documentaire, Recontres Cinéma Nostalgia for the Light Impunity Belgrano D’Amérique Latine de Toulouse, 2011 Festival 10:15 a.m. 12 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Documentary, France, Germany, and Chile, 2011, Documentary, Switzerland, France, and Colombia, 2010, 85 min. Fiction, Argentina, 2010, 82 min., South Guañape 90 min. Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris, Directors Sebastián Pivotto, Director • 2012 Latin American Studies Association Patricio Guzmán, Director • 2011 David L. Wolper Award, International In contemporary Colombia, paramilitary armies are accused of Presented by Dr. Laura de Maria, University of Maryland, College Park Documentary Association (IDA) The film stages the various layers of memory existing in the Atacama killing thousands of Colombians and are put on trial to create “peace Desert which includes the Pre-Columbian mummies, 19th century and justice.” Instead, the process comes to an abrupt halt, when explorers and miners, the remains of Pinochet political prisoners, and the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are Based on the life of Argentine national hero Manuel Belgrano, Artigas La Redota the astral memory.