From GTFF

Human Rights in Latin America

This film series is part of a course, History 399, but the general public is welcome to attend all or part of each evening’s session. There will be an introduction to each film beginning at 6:30 PM, and screenings will start at 7:00 PM. People may arrive at either point. Everyone will be encouraged to stay for discussions following films.

• Where 129 McKenzie Hall, University of Oregon
• When: Thursday Evenings, Spring Term, 2007

Contents 1 April 5 -- INTRODUCTION: A Question of Rights, the Making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (USA, 1998, 29 min.), and Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark (USA, 2000, 60 min.) 2 April 12 -- MEXICO: Señorita Extraviada / Missing Young Woman (USA, 2001, 76 min.) 3 April 19 -- MEXICO, cont.: Deshilando condenas, bordando libertades / Unraveling Condemnation, Embroidering Liberty (Mexico, 2005, 35 min.) and Media Matters (USA, 2007, 8 min.) 4 April 26 -- GUATEMALA & EL SALVADOR: Discovering Dominga (USA, 2003, 57 min.) and Artist of Resistance (USA, 2005, 58 min.) 5 May 3 -- NICARAGUA: They Can Cut All the Flowers, But They Will Never Stop the Spring (USA, 1990s, 40 min.) and Frontline: War on Nicaragua (USA, 1987, 60 min.) 6 May 10 -- CHILE: Machuca (Chile/Spain/UK/France, 2004, 121 min.) 7 May 17 -- PERU: State of Fear (USA/Peru, 2004, 94 min.) 8 May 24 -- ARGENTINA: La historia official / Official Story (Argentina, 1985, 112 min.) 9 May 31 -- BOLIVIA: The Devil’s Miner (USA/Germany, 2005, 82 min.) 10 June 7 -- USA & GUANTANAMO, CUBA: Frontline: The Torture Question (USA, 2005, 90 min.)

[edit] April 5 -- INTRODUCTION: A Question of Rights, the Making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (USA, 1998, 29 min.), and Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark (USA, 2000, 60 min.)

[edit] April 12 -- MEXICO: Señorita Extraviada / Missing Young Woman (USA, 2001, 76 min.)

[edit] April 19 -- MEXICO, cont.: Deshilando condenas, bordando libertades / Unraveling Condemnation, Embroidering Liberty (Mexico, 2005, 35 min.) and Media Matters (USA, 2007, 8 min.)

With special guests: filmmakers Concepción Núñez and Gabriela Martínez

[edit] April 26 -- GUATEMALA & EL SALVADOR: Discovering Dominga (USA, 2003, 57 min.) and Artist of Resistance (USA, 2005, 58 min.)

[edit] May 3 -- NICARAGUA: They Can Cut All the Flowers, But They Will Never Stop the Spring (USA, 1990s, 40 min.) and Frontline: War on Nicaragua (USA, 1987, 60 min.)

With special guest: Spanish instructor Bryan Moore

[edit] May 10 -- CHILE: Machuca (Chile/Spain/UK/France, 2004, 121 min.)

With special guest: Pastor Claude Pomerleau, who lived in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, 1985-91

[edit] May 17 -- PERU: State of Fear (USA/Peru, 2004, 94 min.)

With special guest: Professor Carlos Aguirre

[edit] May 24 -- ARGENTINA: La historia official / Official Story (Argentina, 1985, 112 min.)

[edit] May 31 -- BOLIVIA: The Devil’s Miner (USA/Germany, 2005, 82 min.)

[edit] June 7 -- USA & GUANTANAMO, CUBA: Frontline: The Torture Question (USA, 2005, 90 min.)

With special guests: Attorney Jeff Bachman, representing detainees at Guantánamo, and projection artist Violet Ray

Sponsored the Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace as part of the two-year program, "Contested Memories, Continuing Struggles: Human Rights and Truth Commissions in Latin America," organized by the Latin American Studies Committee. For further information or accessibility questions, please call Professor Stephanie Wood, 346-5771.