GRANITO - HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR
With the support of the Kenneth Lattman Foundation, the Bill Cosford Cinema and Latin American Film Series are pleased to invite filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis to discuss their latest film, GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR. On Thursday, February 2 at 7PM, as part of the Kenneth Lattman Foundation Lecture Series, GRANITO will be screened for its Miami Premiere followed by a Q+A with the filmmakers.
"GRANITO becomes both a humanitarian legal thriller and a quest to find justice through cinema."
-Aaron Hillis, VILLAGE VOICE
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 have pieced together, each adding their granito – their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.
Join us February 2 at 7PM for the special premiere of GRANITO as part of the Kenneth Lattman Foundation Lecture Series including a Q+A with filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis.
Directed by Pamela Yates. Unrated.
Guatemala/USA, 2011, Digital Projection, 80 minutes, Color, English and Spanish with English Subtitles.
The Kenneth Lattman Foundation Lecture Series at the Bill Cosford Cinema features eight films build on innovative storytelling and created by some of the brightest filmmakers today. The series brings audiences “back to the movie theater” to watch and discuss exceptional films together. Each screening is followed by a discussion with University of Miami experts, distinguished industry VIPs, the audience and other guests who explore the scholarly, professional, and artistic merits of each film.
This special event came to fruition through the generous support of Eliot and Shelley Abramson of the the Lattman Foundation, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Women and Gender Studies program, and the University of Miami School of Communication.