Granito FIlm Screening and Discussion with Filmmakers
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Buchanan Hall, Meese Room
Granito has won numerous awards, but perhaps the most important element of the film is that some of its footage is being used by state prosecutors in the trial against former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt. Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Mason Hall Meese Room, 4:30-7:00PM. This film screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Pamela Yates and producer Paco de Onis!
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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 our 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.
