"BEST CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY" at Paris International Film Festival

Synopsis:

GRANITO (2011, Dir. Pamela Yates) 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.

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This event is part of the "Politics of Memory: Guatemala's National Police Archive" conference taking place on Friday, December 2. For more information: http://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/guatemala/

presented by the Benson Latin American Collection,
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies