[act-ma] CANCELED Robatierra (free + Director's visit) - Thu 11/1
Bill Spirito (BASE)
spirito at spanishclassesboston.com
Tue Oct 30 08:35:38 PDT 2012
CANCELED
Message from Andes Initiative:
Dear all,
Unfortunately Margarita's flight from Bogota was cancelled and we need
to reschedule the screening of "Robatierra."
I will let you know when we have a new date/time for this event.
Best regards,
Paola Ibarra
Program Associate, Andes Initiative and ARTS at DRCLAS
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Subject: [act-ma] Robatierra (free + Director's visit) - Thu 11/1
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:06:07 -0400
From: Bill Spirito (BASE) <spirito at spanishclassesboston.com>
Reply-To: spirito at spanishclassesboston.com
Organization: Boston Area Spanish Exchange
To: act-ma at act-ma.org
Andes Initiative, DRCLAS, Harvard
Screening of "Robatierra," followed by a conversation with Margarita
Martinez (Directora del documental "La Sierra")
*Date:* Thursday, November 1 @6:00pm
*Location: *CGIS <http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/about/directions> South,
Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
*Contact:*pibarra at fas.harvard.edu <mailto:pibarra at fas.harvard.edu>
/Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the event/
In a land where people have known nothing but war, a tightly knit and
fiercely proud people, the Nasa, fight for the land stolen from their
ancestors while fending off the violence encroaching on their nation.
Their charismatic leader is Lucho Acosta, 39, an imposing tactician
descended from Indian warriors. He knows from experience that violence
only breeds more violence. But facing nearly insurmountable odds,
Lucho's beliefs are tested to their very core. The future of the Nasa
hang in the balance. Directed by Margarita Martinez and Miguel Salazar
Aparicio.
More information at: http://www.robatierra.com/
*Margarita Martinez*, Colombian filmmaker and journalist, Martínez
recently finished "Stolen Land" on the indigenous struggle for land in
Colombia. Her first film, the 2005 documentary "La Sierra," won numerous
international awards for its raw depiction of Medellín street gangs. She
is about to complete "Sniffing the Rainforest," a documentary that
focuses on the environmental damage wrought by the cocaine trade,
expected to be released this Fall. She also directed two shorts. "The
battle of silence," about the murder of a regional journalist in
Colombia and the impunity surrounding homicides against journalists in
Latin America, (2007). Her second short is "En la tierra del olvido" the
Colombian chapter of a BBC series on sexual and reproductive rights,
shown on 2008. For seven years, Martinez covered Colombia's civil
conflict for the Associated Press, moving with ease among Marxist
guerrilla chiefs and their arch-enemies, the commanders of right-wing
death squads. She got her start at NBC in New York in 1998. Educated as
a lawyer in Colombia, Martinez earned masters degrees in journalism and
international affairs from Colombia University. She was a Nieman Fellow
at Harvard University in 2009.
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