Friday, March 1–Sunday, March 3Robins School of Business,Ukrop Auditorium

�lmstudies.richmond.edu

Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?2 p.m.

Documentary, USA, 2011, 80 min.Saul Landau, Director

Presented by Dr. Eric Yellin, Department of History, 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).

Artigas: La Redota 6:10 p.m.

Fiction, Uruguay, Spain, 2011, 118 min.César Charlone, Director

Presented by Dr. Manuella Meyer, Department of History, 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.

Monseñor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero3:45 p.m.

Documentary, USA, 2011, 88 min.Ana Carrigan and Juliet Weber, Directors

Presented by Dr. Peter Kaufman, Department of Religious Studies, University of Richmond

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.

Juan of the Dead 8:20 p.m.

Fiction, Cuba and Spain, 2011, 92 min.Alejandro Brugués, Director

Presented by Abigail Cheever, Film Studies Program, University of Richmond

A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government.

Sunday, March 3

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.

Saturday, March 210:15 a.m.–8 p.m.

10:15 a.m.Nostalgia for the Light, 90 min.

12 p.m.Impunity, 85 min.

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

Friday, March 112 p.m.–10 p.m.

12 p.m.Tumaco Pacifico, 90 min.

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.

Sunday, March 32 p.m.–10 p.m.

2 p.m.Will the Real Terrorists Please Stand Up, 80 min.

3:45 p.m.Monseñor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero, 88 min.

6:10 p.m.Artigas: La Redota, 118 min.

8:20 p.m.Juan of the Dead, 92 min.

Latin America in the MoviesMarch 1–3, 2013 • Robins School of Business, Ukrop Auditorium

Tumaco Pacífico12 p.m.

Samuel Córdoba, DirectorDocumentary, Colombia, 2008, 90 min.

Presented by Dr. Mary Finley-Brook, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Richmond

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.

Children of Memory 1:45 p.m.

Maria Teresa Rodriguez, DirectorDocumentary, USA, 2012, 64 min.

Presented by Dr. Mckenna Brown, Office of International Education, Virginia Commonwealth University

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 Chilean Building3 p.m.

Macarena Aguiló, DirectorDocumentary, 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 Andes5 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.

Friday, March 1

Our Home On Our Shoulders 6:45 p.m.

Documentary, Colombia, 2010, 50 min.Andrés García and Camilo Pérez, Directors

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.

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.

Friday, March 1

Children of Memory• 2010 LASA Aware of Merit in Film

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• 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

Marti, the Eye of the Canary1:30 p.m.

Fiction, Cuba, 2010, 120 min.Fernando Pérez, Director

Presented by Dr. Ann Marie Stock, College of William & Mary

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.

Guañape sur (South Guañape) 3:45 p.m.

Documentary, Italy, 2010, 27 min.János Richter, Director

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.

Belgrano 4:30 p.m.

Fiction, Argentina, 2010, 82 min., Sebastián Pivotto, Director

Presented by Dr. Laura de Maria, University of Maryland, College Park

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.

Generation Exile6:15 p.m.

Documentary, USA, 2010, 70 min.Rodrigo Dorfman, Director

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.

Director Rodrigo Dorfman will attend the screening and participate in a Q&A after the projection.

Nostalgia for the Light10:15 a.m.

Documentary, France, Germany, and Chile, 2011,90 min.Patricio Guzmán, Director

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.

Impunity12 p.m.

Documentary, Switzerland, France, and Colombia, 2010, 85 min.Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris, Directors

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?

Impunity• Audience Award, FIDOCS, Santiago de Chile 2010

• Camera Justitia Award, Movies that Matter 2011, The Hague

• 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 IberoamericanoMejor Fotografia: Raúl Perez UretaMejor Director: Fernando Perez

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