2011 NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FEST.

2011 NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL25TH ANNIVERSARY | 1986 -2011

Unfinished Visionscommunity events, Art exhibits, academic forums, round tables, panel discussions,

oral and visual stories. REPORT

NC Latin American Film FestivalThe Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University

This event was made possible through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education and the Andrew W. Mellon Foun-dation.

Organized by The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-CH, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke, the Duke University Center for International Studies, the Duke Human Rights Center, the Duke Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Duke Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, the Duke Screen/Society, Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics. The Cuba progran at UNC-CH, UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages and the NCSU Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures.

In collaboration with the Carolina Theatre of Durham, Durham Parks & Recreation, Durham Technical Community College, Guilford College, North Carolina State University, North Caro-lina Central University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Special thanks to the Consulate General of Mexico in Raleigh, The Artists Studio Project, Rafael Osuba, quickcolorprints.com, and the North Carolina Arts Council.

More Information:Miguel Rojas-Sotelo. PhD., Festival Director and Special Events Coordinator, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University. (919) 681 3883 / [email protected]

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2011 NC Latin American Film Festival

Unfinished Visions

25 YEARS | 1986-2011

In November 2011, the North Carolina Latin American Film Festival marked its 25th anniversary. Founded in 1986, the North Carolina Latin American Film Festival celebrated the power and artistry of Latin America's film and audiovisual production. Its mission is to provide a space in North Carolina for Latin American images, sounds, and stories to reach a wider audience. From docu-mentaries that depicted the darkest moments of Latin American history during the rise of dictatorships, to feature films that por-trayed the intimacies, complexities and rhythms of everyday life, our audiences have been exposed to a wide range of critical and responsible narratives of the region.

In 2011 the festival featured a series focused on one of the most pressing contemporary challenges facing the region: narco-traf-ficking and the related themes of violence, corruption, in/justice, migration, and environmental degradation. The festival looked at the hemispheric context of these realities using films, documen-taries, art exhibits, oral histories, panel discussions, lectures with important visitors from different backgrounds and opposite views, with a special focus on Mexico.

Our goal was to create discussion to understand this sensitive issue while examining how Latin Americans from the perspective of audiovisual creators and socially engage citizens are responding to the challenges of living in such times. From films and docu-mentaries, to visual arts, telenovelas, and performance to a more academic and activist stand, the 2011 NC Latin American Film Festival approached the issue.

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MONDAY November 7 | 7pm.Durham. Griffith Film Theatre. Duke University. West CampusEl Infierno | NarcoLuis Estrada (Mexico, 2010). 145 minBenjamin Garcia, Benny, is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, he gets involved in the narco busi-ness, in which for the first time in his life he is surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon hell discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises. An epic black comedy about the world of Mafia and organized crime, HELL helps us to understand what everybody is asking: What is happening in Mexico today?AUDIENCE: 50

TUESDAY November 8 | 7pm.Durham. ERC Auditorium. Durham Technical Community CollegeLiving Jurez: Collateral Damage in Mexicos Drug War Chiapas Media Project (Mexico, 2010) 25 minIn December 2006, Mexican President Felipe Caldern declared war on the drug cartels. Since then close to 50,000 people have died in Mexico as a result of the War on Drugs. Ciudad. Jurez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, is now considered the deadliest city in the world, where close to 7,000 people have died since March 2008. Living Juarez tells the story of the real victims in Calderns Drug War: regular people just trying to survive in a city overrun by sense-less violence, and corruption. &Seorita Extraviada | Missing Young Woman Lourdes Portillo (Mexico, 2001). 70 minMissing Young Woman tells the story of the hundreds of kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Jurez, Mexico. The murders first came to light in 1993 and young women continue to disappear to this day (2005) without any hope of bringing the perpetrators to justice. Who are these women from all walks of life and why are they getting murdered so brutally?AUDIENCE: 60

WEDNESDAY November 9 | 6.30pm.Chapel Hill. Nelson Mandela Auditorium. FedEx GEC. UNC CHWill the Real Terrorist Please Stand UpSaul Landau (Cuba, 2011) 80 minAward-winning director Saul Landau embarks on an in-depth explora-tion of Miami-Havana politics through the story of the Cuban Five, a group of spies sent by the Castro government to infiltrate right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami. When the spies turned over evidence of US-based terrorism to the FBI, they themselves were arrested, tried, and convicted in Florida courts while the confessed anti-Castro terrorists live freely in Florida.Director led discussion, introduced by Lou Perez, UNC-CH History.AUDIENCE: 50

WEDNESDAY November 9 | 7pm.Greensboro. Jarrell Lecture Hall in Jackson Library. UNC-GWaste LandLucy Walker, Karen Harley (Brazil, 2010) 100 minAn uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the worlds largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. &

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Ilha das FloresJorge Furtado (Brazil, 1990). 13 minThe ironic, heartbreaking and acid saga of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation; to a supermarket; to a consumers kitchen to become sauce for pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for con-sumption; to a garbage truck from where it lands in a garbage dump in Ilha das Flores; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employ-ees of a pig breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.AUDIENCE: 45

THURSDAY November 10 | 7pm.University Theater, Farrison-Newton Communications Build. NCCUThe Promise of MusicEnrique Snchez Lansch (Venezuela, 2008) 70 minWhenever the Simn Bolvar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and its charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamel perform, they receive a highly enthusiastic welcome from audiences and critics alike. At just twenty-six, Dudamel has already been Musical Director of the youth orchestra for eight years and is acknowledged as one of the most important conductors of his generation. However, this is not just the story of some prodigy. Dudamel himself describes music as a social life-saver. Introduced by Horacio Xaubert (NCCU), discussion lead by Katy Wy-att, Executive Director KidzNotes. AUDIENCE: 45

FRIDAY November 11 | 7pm.Greensboro. Bryan Auditorium. Guilford CollegeLos que se quedan | Those Who RemainCarlos Hagerman (Mexico, 2009). 90 minMexico is now the worlds largest exporter of its people, with up to half a million people each year crossing the US-Mexico border in search of work. The toll this explosion in emigration has taken is particularly evident in central Mexico and in southern states like Chiapas and Yucatan, where entire cities and towns have been depleted. This is a film about the families that are left behind when their loved ones leave home in search of a better life abroad.AUDIENCE: 80

SATURDAY November 12 | 6.30 pm.Raleigh. Campus Cinema. Witherspoon Student Center . NCSUEl Infierno | NarcoLuis Estrada (Mexico, 2010). 145 minAUDIENCE: 40

SATURDAY November 12 | 6.30pm.Durham. Richard White Auditorium. Duke University, East CampusSAF Short documentary filmsLos Pineros by Robyn Levine (USA, 2011)The films documents the experiences of a group of migrant farmworkers who live together and work in the Christmas tree fields in Boone, North Carolina. Echando la mano: Working with and for Family by Nandini Kumar, Katie Cox Shrader, and Abigail Bissette (USA, 2011)It explores the theme of family in labor lore: how cell phones connect farmwork-ers to their loved ones far away, how they distract themselves from loneliness, and how the community in the farmworker camp becomes a sort of family dur-ing the long season of work in the fields.Cosecha Countdown: U.S. Farmwork by the Numbers Cosecha is a blog produced by a group of fellows working with Student Action with Farm-workers to share farmworker facts and promote actions that you can take to support farmworkers. Presented by Marichel Mejia&El velador | Night Watchman Natalia Almada (Mexico, 2011). 72 minFrom dusk to dawn EL VELADOR accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mauso-leums of Mexicos most notorious drug lords. In the labyrinth of the

Katy Wyatt, Executive Director KidzNotes (photo Durham Magazine)

The shorts were presented by their directors. Robyn Levine, Abiail Bissette and Marichel Mejia

cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us how, in the turmoil of Mexicos bloodiest conflict since the Revolu-tion, ordinary life persists and quietly defies the dead.AUDIENCE: 62

SUNDAY November 13 | 6.30pm.Durham. Love Auditorium. Duke University, West CampusChildren of the AmazonDenise Zmekhol (Brazil, 2007). 72 minThrough captivating photos and interviews, the film tells the story of struggle and hope to protect the worlds largest tropical rain-forest and its inhabitants. It follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the indigenous Surui and Negarote children she pho-tographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on earth when a road was built straight through its heart. AUDIENCE: 95

MONDAY November 14 | 7pm.Durham. Griffith Film Theatre. Duke University, West CampusTropa de Elite | Elite Squad Jos Padilla (Brazil, 2008). 115 minIn 1997, before the visit of the Pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum near where the Pope intends to stay. Neto and Matias join Captain Nascimentos Military Police force expecting to become honest policemen and fight the criminals; they only see corruption.AUDIENCE: 38

TUESDAY November 15 | 7pm.Durham. Michaux School of Education Auditorium. NCCUCandombe: tambores en libertad |Candombe: Freedom DrumsCarlos Pez Vilar (Uruguay, 2006) 70 minCandombe is a documentary that reflects the lifestyle of an Afro-Uruguayan culture present in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. This culture wich comes from African slaves that were brought to the coast of the Rio de la Plata, lives now in an environment of perma-nent music and dance.AUDIENCE: 30

WEDNESDAY November 16 | 7pm.Chapel Hill. Nelson Mandela Auditorium. FedEx GEC. UNC CHPresunto Culpable | Presumed GuiltyRoberto Hernndez (Mexico, 2010) 90 minImagine being picked up off the street, told you committed a mur-der you know nothing about, and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. In December 2005 this happened to Too Zi-ga in Mexico City and, like thousands of other innocent people, he was wrongfully imprisoned. The award-winning Presumed Guilty is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Ziga. Featured event with director, producer and academics on Justice in Mexico.AUDIENCE: 60

WEDNESDAY November 16 | 7pm.Greensboro. Jarrell Lecture Hall in Jackson Library. UNC-G7pm.Tropa de Elite |Elite SquadJos Padilla (Brazil, 2008). 115minAUDIENCE: 40

Q&A with Eduardo da Costa (left) and Rosmary Fernholdz, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke

Intro and Q&A with Alexandre Fortes, Mellon Visiting Professor, CLACS-History, Duke

Q&A with Layda Negrete, producer and Emilio Alvarez Icaza, leader of the Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad.

THURSDAY November 17 | 7pm.Durham. The Carolina Theater Cinema 1. Retratos en un mar de mentiras | Portraits in a Sea of LiesCarlos Gaviria (Colombia, 2010) 90 minA pair of cousins living in the outskirts of one city in Colombia represents the children of displacement. They decide to travel to their hometown to try to recover the land taken from them when they were younger. This road film portrays an aspect of the long lasting internal conflict in Colombia in which factions of illegal forces (leftist guerrillas and right wing paramilitaries) fought for control of territories to cultivate, produce and smuggle drugs and weapons. Winner of the Best Narrative Feature in the Cine de las Amricas Film Festival (2010).& Shoveling Water Witness for Peace (Colombia-USA, 2009) 27 minA journey to the heart of coca country in Colombia where U.S. tax dollars have financed chemical spraying of the Amazon for the past decade and a half. The film features the lives of peasant communities amidst this open front of the War on Drugs. AUDIENCE: 120

THURSDAY November 17 | 7pm.Greensboro. Bryan Auditorium. Guilford CollegeEspiral | SpiralJorge Perez Solano (Mexico, 2008). 99 minSantiago is back in the village he left nearly twenty years before. He was in love with Diamantina but he was poor and her family did not let them marry. So he went to the North looking for money and a better life. When he comes back years later, Diamantina is pregnant from another man who agreed with her father to kidnap her. Disempowered, Santiago leaves his village again. AUDIENCE: 75

FRIDAY November 18 | 6.30 pm.Raleigh. Campus Cinema. Witherspoon Student Center. NCSUA tiro de piedra | A Stones Throw AwaySebastian Hiriart (Mexico, 2011). 118 minJacinto is a goat-herder in a part of Mexico that looks quite deso-late and inhospitable. When he finds a keychain in the shape of a barn surrounded by trees, stamped with the name of a town in Oregon, he takes it as a sign that he should go there, and thats just what he does, though not without many trials and tribulations. Jacinto survives through a combination of good nature, stubborn-ness and stoicism. Director led discussion.AUDIENCE: 65

FRIDAY November 18 | 7pm.Durham. ERC Auditorium, Durham Technical Community CollegeAnimas Perdidas/ Lost SoulsMonika Navarro (USA-Mexico, 2010). 60 minIn 1999, two brothers were deported from the U.S. to Mexico. Raised in the U.S. since childhood and military vets, these men were deported from the only country they knew, and had sworn to protect, to forge new lives in Mexico. What happens when a fam-ily confronts its past, and how they have survived are the focus of this compelling and emotional documentary.AUDIENCE: 40

SATURDAY November 19 | 12.30pm.Chapel Hill. Nelson Mandela Auditorium. FedEx GEC. UNC CHSin Nombre| Without a NameCary Fukunaga (Mexico-USA, 2009). 106 minHonduran teenager Sayra reunites with the father she hasnt seen in years and seizes the opportunity to finally make her dreams a re-ality. Her father has a new family in the U.S., and hes preparing to travel with her there. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Tapachula teen Casper, aka Willy, has gotten caught up with the notorious Mara Salvatru-cha street gang. Both will encounter each other as their only hope of surviving the journey.A panel followed the screening, on Local Youth and violenceAUDIENCE: 40

SATURDAY November 19 | 4.00pm.Chapel Hill. FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005. UNC CHSeed Spirits: the Otomi of Carolina del Norte (PREMIERE)Altha Cravey & Elva Bishop (Durham, 2011) 30min The documentary explores the translocal lives of an indigenous group from San Pablito, a village in highland Puebla, Mexico. The main source of livelihood in the town, is artisanal papermaking. Papel amate was used for creating the ancient Mexican codices. In the last generation, Otomi (who call themselves Hyuhnu) have relocated to Durham, NC and are sending remittances back to supplement earnings from papermaking. We focus on indigenous traditions that mark the cycle of life and the passing of the seasons: Carnaval, a Quinciera, and Day of the Dead. In addition, Don Alfonso Garcia, a leading curandero of San Pablito, speaks about the role of the seed spirits in his healing work. Directors and community were present for this global premierAUDIENCE: 80

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Conversations and discussions took place after all films at the festival. For trailers of the films go to: 2011 NC Latin American Film Festival

Q&A with directors Elva Bishop and Altha Cravey, Geograpy UNC-CH.

Film Festival Committee Jorge Mar, NCSU

Penny Simpson, NCSU

Marco Polo Cuevas, NCCU

Horacio Xaubet, NCCU

Hank Okazaki, Duke University

Jeanine Costa, UNC-Greensboro

Olivia Elias, Guilford College

JoAnn Molnar, Durham Technical Community College

Rosalie Bocelli-Hernndez, Durham Parks and Recreation

Natalie Hartman, Duke University

Beatriz Riefkohl-Muiz, UNC-Chapel Hill

Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Director. Duke University

Sharon Sullivan Mujica, Founder and director of the NC Latin American

Film Festival from 1986-2007

LEAVING LA FLORESTA is a documentary that chronicles the forced displacement of one Colombian family. Abelardo and Olga were farmers in the Colombian countryside, growing crops like yucca, plantains, and

cacao (chocolate) to support their family. In 2010, their crops were destroyed by U.S. spray planes that were targeting coca (cocaine) crops. After their crops were destroyed, they took their five children, packed up everything they owned, and journeyed to the city slums in search of work and shelter. This film tells the story of this family and challenges the viewer

to think through this U.S. drug policy known as Plan Colombia (the southern front of the War on Drugs).

As preparation for the 2011 NC Latin American Film Festival.

* OCTOBER 3. A156 LSRC (LEVINE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER), DUKE UNIVERSITY

4.30PMOrganized by WGELA & the Working Group on War and Peace in the Americas.

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies AUDIENCE: 45

* OCTOBER 4. 112 HANES HALL, UNC-CH6.00PM

Organized by Advocates for Human Rights, supported by the Working Group on War and Peace in the Americas. Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

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October 21, 2011 | 7PM

Latino Traditions. Three short films by Rodrigo Dorfman (2011)

Performances by: Takiri Dance Studio, Carlos Salvo and the Chilean Cueca, the music group Los Morales.

This project was funded by the NC Arts Councilhttp://www.ibiblio.org/latinotraditionsNC/

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The Latino Traditions project was funded by the NC Arts Council Folklife program and consists of a multimedia website that focuses on Latin American folkloric traditions in North

Carolina as seen though the eyes of immigrants who practice them.

The website highlights three different aspect of Latin American folklore through three short documentaries and a series of stand alone interviews with the participants. These

interviews add and deepen the stories told through the short documentaries. The im-migrants in these stories come from Mexico, Chile and Colombia; they illuminate

different aspects of Latin American folklore, but they also share a struggle to retain their traditions as a means to re-connect with their homeland, teach their children Spanish and

educate the general public about the diversity of Latin American culture. Its a two-step process that reminds them of how far away they are and yet how close they can be.

From Rodrigo Dorfman: Latino Traditions is a project that comes out of my 25 years witnessing the birth of a Latino community in North Carolina. It has always been my belief that the moment a Latin

American immigrates to the USA, he or she will undergo a slow conscious and unconscious trans-formation, and become a Latino(a); someone with one foot in Latin America and the other in the USA community where their children are growing up. This doubling of our conscious identity; this

expansion of who we are, affects the way we experience the national traditions of the homeland we left behind. We filter them through the filters of distance, loss and the pride to share and the desire to pass them on to our assimilated children. So, the idea of a Latino Tradition is in itself a hybrid filter, an ideal

from which to view the transformation of the traditions themselves as they evolve within the immi-grant experience.

In partnership with: Thanks to:

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AUDIENCE ATTENDING PRE-FESTIVAL SCREENINGS AND EVENTS: 325

FRIDAY November 4 | 3.30pmDuke University. Sanford School of Public Policy. Room 05 Drug Policy: a Hemispheric PerspectiveKeynote Speaker: Mr. Mark Wells, Director of Western Hemisphere Pro-grams, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau, U.S. State Department With, Ambassador Patrick Duddy. 2010-2011 Diplomat in Residence, Duke

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In order to curb the use of narcotics abroad, the United States should fo-cus on strengthening law enforcement on a local level, a state official said.

In a lecture Friday, Mark Wells, director of the Office of Americas Programs for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforce-ment Affairs, discussed changes in Americas counter-narcotic policies in Central America and South America. American interests in eradicating drug problems extend beyond American borders, Wells said. Compar-ing past efforts that focused on aiding foreign countries by substituting cocaine cultivation with alternative crops, Wells noted that the United States government is now pursuing a strategy of consolidation.

The whole government approach, which we termed consolidation, helps the government control pockets of their countries that were uncontrolled

and exploited by drug cartels, Wells said.

In Colombia, the U.S. government has spent $1 billion to professionalize Colombian police forces and establish aviation forces to enable the local government to enforce its laws. In Mexico, efforts in past years involved providing non-intrusive equipment, such as scanners and police training, Wells said. With Mexicos federal government made up of 31 separate states, the country presents a larger challenge in regulating narcotics than Colombia with its single federal government structure, he added.

The lecture also featured Ambassador Patrick Duddy, the U.S. Department of States diplomat in residence at the Center for International Studies and former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. Duddy discussed American counter-narcotics efforts in Bolivia in the post-Cold War years through the turn of the millennium, as well as the U.S.s three main branches of operationinterdiction, eradication and alternative develop-ment.

In 2001 to 2002, we had nearly achieved our overarching goal to eradicate cocaine trafficking [in Bolivia] when the efforts fell apart because of political problems, such as persistent inequality and poverty, Duddy said.

For countries that do not cooperate in Americas counter-narcotic efforts, aid is often taken away and sanctions are put in place, Duddy said. As for corrupt individuals involved in drug trafficking, the government will freeze their funds and publicly declare their criminal complicity. This may restrict the individuals mobility not only to the U.S. but also to other countries, Duddy added.

In the future, Wells said the U.S. plans to target multiple countries at a time to effectively combat illegal narcotics rather than focus solely on specific areas in Central and South America with drug trafficking problems.

With Mexican and Colombian cooperation, this is the first time we will able to put some pressure on the entire region, Wells said.

Cydney Justman, a graduate student in global health, said the academic community must recognize the complexity of forming and imple-menting policies to counter narcotic use. Justman added that the U.S. does not offer political asylum to people in unstable communities facing drug problems, which raises further ethical questions on the issue.

These people in many ways are obliged to cooperate with the drug cartels because they often provide protection and security in these com-munities, Justman said.

Sandra Ley Gutierrez, a graduate student in political science, said the weight of the U.S. and its decisions make it important to know the perspective of the government. She noted, however, that more attention should be placed on the effects of counter-narcotics policies abroad on innocent civilians.

We need to think about the community the civilians live in and what they can do to better that community, she said.

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SUNDAY November 6 | 4.00pm. Chapel Hill. Nelson Mandela Auditorium. FedEx GEC. UNC CHDOING | THINKING | MAKING LATINo/a AMERICAN FILM IN NORTH CAROLINAWith: Rodrigo Dorfman, Penny Simpson, Charlie Thompson, and Altha Cravey.Film (reel): 25 Years of Latin/o American Films in North Carolina.Presentation: 2011 NC Latin American Film Festival.Reception to follow.

AUDIENCE: 65Rodrigo Dorfman Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1967, Rodrigo Dorfman is an award wining filmmaker, ethnographer, writer, video artist and multimedia journalist who currently resides in Durham, North Carolina. His company Mel-loweb LLC works in cooperation with NGOS, educational and grassroots organizations, film companies and private institutions to create multimedia documentaries. As a screenwriter, Rodrigo Dorfman won, with his father, the 1996 Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for best television screenplay for a BBC VJ Day special called Prisoners in Time starring John Hurt. That was followed in 1998, with Deadline, a movie for Channel 4, England. It was shown as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Human Rights. Rodrigos first short film, My House is on Fire, was screened at some of the top Film Festivals in the world Edinburgh International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, The Latino International Film Festival in Los Angeles and The Sao Paolo International Short Film Festival among others. His first feature documentary Generation Exile was featured at the Full Frame Film Festi-val. He has just completed two independent fiction-feature Blood and Honey, and a sequel of Angelicas Dreams, Robertos Dreams and working in two more. In 2011 his short film One Night in Kernersville won the best short at the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Penny SimpsonA native of North Carolina, Penny Simpson graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After film courses at NYU and in California, she worked professionally in film, video and music production in California, New York, and in Mexico, where she lived for over seventeen years. She currently works as a documentary filmmaker and research analyst and as an advocate for Latino issues in North Carolina.Her film Nuestra Comunidad: Latinos in North Carolina (along side Joanne Hershfield, documentary filmmaker who teaches film and video production and media studies in the Department of Communica-tion Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) highlights key historical moments of the recent Latino immigrant experience in North Carolina. And looks at North Carolina's transformation in the twenty-first century, with its changing demographics. The documentary also reflects on cultural encounters between Anglos and Latinos in a state that, prior to the last decade, had relatively few Latinos. Over 55 hours of footage were shot for the project between 1999 and 2001.The first public screenings of Nuestra Comunidad: Latinos in North Carolina were held during the XV Latin American Film Festival in November of 2001 on three different North Carolina university campuses.

Charlie ThompsonAlso a native of Virginia, Charles Thompson is currently director of the undergraduate program at CDS, holds the faculty position of Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in religion and culture from UNC Chapel Hill, with concentrations in cultural studies and Latin American studies. His particular interests in documentary work include oral history, ethnography, filmmaking, and community activism. A former farmer, he remains immersed in agricultural issues and works on issues affecting laborers within our food system. He has written about farmworkers, and he is an advisory board member of Student Action with Farmworkers. He is the author or editor of five books; his latest is Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World. He is also editor, with Melinda Wiggins, of The Human Cost of Food: Farmworker Lives, Labor, and Advocacy. Thompson is also the producer/director of three documentary films, including his latest Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, as well as The Guestworker and We Shall Not Be Moved.

Altha CraveyA native of Illinois grow up there and in Indiana. Altha Cravey is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at UNC-CH. Much of her research and teaching is focused on Latin America and Latinos in the United States South. Her book Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras (Rowman and Littlefield 1998) is key to understand the impact of globalization/ and on women in places like Juarez. The United States South has been one of the last parts of the country to experience such massive rapid demographic changes, so local research provides Altha a way to think about some of the issues related to globalization and the Latino experience.Professor Cravey teaches courses on Latin American Geography, Social Geography, Political Geogra-phy, and Feminist Geography (Space, Place, and Difference). Cravey also teaches a First Year Seminar on Local Places in a Globalizing World. Her documentary films LA VIRGEN APPEARS IN LA MALDITA VECINDAD and most recently SEED OF SPIRITS address such issues and make visible some of the cultural practices of the Latino community in North Carolina.

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MONDAY November 7 | 11.00amUNC-Chapel Hill. Saunders Hall Room 220.Consuming Narcoculture: Prepagos and Hypermasculine Narcos in the Narcotelenovelas Mass Media MarketGuest Speaker: Miguel Cabaas, Michigan State University

Consuming Narcoculture: Prepagos and Hypermasculine Narcos in the Narcotelenovelas Mass Media Market Guest Speaker: Miguel Cabaas, Michigan State University

Miguel Cabaas. Associate Professor of Latin American and Cultural Studies. Michigan State University

This presentation highlights the importance of

Narcotelenovelas popularity and how it underscores important

current debates of neoliberalism; at times, the narrative offers

a critique of neoliberal consumerism, both legal and illegal. The

subgenre of telenovelas in all its incarnations offers a critique

of patriarchal society and of the middle classesthis is why

many women and the subaltern identify with itbut at the

same time reinserts the gendered body of (subaltern) women

back under the surveillance of the (global) patriarchal gaze.

Sin tetas no hay paraso (Without Tits There Is No Paradise) is a famous Colombian television series, produced and aired by Caracol TV. The show is based on the best-selling novel with the same name written by Gustavo Bolivar. The story is based on a young girl, Catalina, who lives in Pereira and becomes obsessed with getting breast implants in order to overcome poverty. Catalina decides to become a "prepago" (prepaid), a prostitute who has sex with drug traffickers in exchange for gifts, money and social status. The prime time show reached ratings nearing 6.9 million viewers, setting a record for the most-watched soap opera in Colombia. Beginning on Monday February 8, 2010 Telemundo will air this series with English captions on CC3. When it premieres the word "Tetas" will be censored out and replaced with an image of a bra in between the first T and the final S because its English translation "tits" was censored from broadcast television by the FCC.

El Capo is a narco-telenovela made by Fox Telecolombia and written by Gustavo Bolivar (Sin tetas no hay paraso) for RCN Television, based on its namesake book. This is the most expensive series ever produced in Colombia. The series follows the story of Pedro Pablo Len Jaramillo, a man who by necessity, chance and ambition has become the richest and most wanted drug trafficker in Colombia.

These series (among others) has been transmitted in the U.S. by the TeleFutura and TeleMundo networkd with high ratings.

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NOTE. This presentation also happened at the NCSU campus on November 8th, in a class visit for the Film Studies and Modern Languages department. Organized by Professor Jordi Mari (NCSU) AUDIENCE: 75

THURSDAY November 17 | 4.00pmDuke University. Perkins Library, Room 217Civilian Victimization and non-violent experiences in the Drug War IIntroduction. Guillermo Trejo. Political Science, Duke UniversityGuest Speaker: Emilio Alvarez Icaza, Co-founder and leader of the Mexican Movement PAZ CON JUSTICIA Y DIGNIDAD. Former Ombusdsman of Mexico City.With Sandra Ley, PhD. Candidate, Political Science, Duke.

FRIDAY November 18 | 3.00pmUNC-Chapel Hill. FedEx Global Education Center, Room1005Civilian Victimization and non-violent experiences in the Drug War IIIntroduction. Deborah Weissman. Law School, UNC-CHGuest Speakers: Judith Torrea. Author of Juarez a la Sombra. New media reporting from Ciudad Juarez & Filmmaker, Sebastian Hiriart. Documenting a Social Movement

The events with Mr. Emilio Alvarez took place in three days of closed meetings with members of the Duke-UNC community. The collective, headed by Prof. Guillermo Trejo and doctoral Student Sandra Ley worked on issues related to truth commissions, Transitional and victims Law and processes of reconciliation. People in attendance: 30

Judith Torrea participated in a lunch session with students and faculty of the UNC-CH Communica-tions and Journalism Department on Friday, Nov 18. Organized by Professor Lucila Vargas. People in attendance: 20

Sebastian Hiriart visitded and gave a talk in two classes (joint) at NCSU, organized by Professor Jordi Mari on November 16th. People in attendance: 75

THURSDAY November 17 | 4.00pmDuke University. Perkins Library, Room 217Civilian Victimization and non-violent experiences in the Drug War I AUDIENCE: 35

Emilio Alvarez Icaza, leader on the defence of Human Rights in Mexico and now leader of the Movimiento por La Paz con Dignidad, shared the story of how the Movimiento was born after the assassination of Mr. Javier Sicilias son in March 2011. Alvarez Icaza was elected by the Second Legislative Assembly President of the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City, a position he held until September 2009. During his administration he was determined to build a culture of human rights and strengthen the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City as an autonomous body. Now the Movimiento por la Paz con Dignidad is committed to become the voice of the victims of the drug-wars taking place along Mexico.

Sandra Ley, Doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science at Duke, shared her experiences as participant in some of the peace caravans in Mexico during 2011. Also, she presented preliminary find-ings on her research on the escalation of violence in Mexico and the description of victims in the current cycle.

Introduced and moderated by Professor Guillermo Trejo. Political Science, Duke

FRIDAY November 18 | 3.00pmUNC-Chapel Hill. FedEx Global Education Center, Room1005Civilian Victimization and non-violent experiences in the Drug War II

AUDIENCE: 65

Filmmaker, Sebastian Hiriart. Documenting a Social Movement. He presented the site: http://emergenciamx.org | a video archive on the social response to the violence in Mexico due to the drug-issue and the government response to it. The site, is a com-prehensive space where documents, texts, declarations, calls, etc., are gathered to keep informed the public about the social mobilization in Mexico.

Judith Torrea. Author of Juarez a la Sombra. New media reporting from Ciudad Juarez, talks about her work and experience living in Ciudad Juarez. She observes that there is a social emergency and a kind of cleansing in which young people do not have protection and representation before the law and the institutions. The vacuum of state presence (not military and police force) had produced a transformation of the city in the past decade and a half.

Hiriart and Torrea respond to the public about their work and experience on the issue of violence in Mexico.

Session moderated by Professor Deborah Weissman. Law School, UNC-CH. (Bellow) participation by Professors Guillermo Trejo (Duke, Political Science) and Altha Cravey (UNC-CH, Geography).

SATURDAY November 19 UNC- Chapel Hill. FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005

YOUTH RESPONSES AND PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES10.00am - 12.00pm | Teacher Workshop | AUDIENCE: 30

2.30pm 4.00pm | The Local Front of the Drug Wars:Youth panel Testimonials, the local Law Enforcement and the drug problem AUDIENCE: 35

From left to right: Timothy L. Sloan, Special Agent. U.S. Department of Justice. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Cur-rent MALS student Duke University. Darrel, Senior at Southern High School. Leo Williams, Director music program Southern High. Eduardo Perez, Family Facilitator, East Way Elementary. Silvio A. Balcazar, Youth Program Coordinator El Vinculo Hispano. Siler City. Miguel Chiri-nos, former Counselor and Hispanic Liaison, Durham Public Schools.

The panelists discussed a range of issues related to education, lack of opportunities, discrimination and profiling, youth programs, etc. Eduardo Perez elaborated on how children immigrants go through a series of stages, from disempower-ment to power in their experience facing education (the use of language is a case), however, that makes them more prone to fall into the crevices of the system and the racial and economic discrimination their situation put them into. Silvio Balcazar and Miguel Chirinos shared their experiences working with youth and families in conditions of poverty and vio-lence, in particular related to gang-violence. Leo Williams and Darrel shared their experiences as a teacher and prob-lematic student and how art programs help to put children out of the cycle of violence. Agent Sloan pointed out that law enforcement institutions identify and persecute criminals and that their work is to stop the cycles, he shared his humani-tarian view on migration but was clear about the rule of law and the combat against crime.

SATURDAY November 19 UNC- Chapel Hill. FedEx Global Education Center,

Closing concert: ILAN BAR-LAVI and his TrioAUDIENCE: 150

Ilan Bar-Lavi (Mexican guitarist), Shelly Tzarafi, and Emiliano Coronel.

This event was co-sponsored by the Artist Studio Project, directed by Rafael Osube, and the Mexican General Con-sulate in Raleigh.

Promotional piece for the concert.

Library exhibit, Cultural Bridge: Drugs Across the Americas, curated by Holly Ackerman, was part of the 25th Anniversary of the N.C. Latin American Film Festival. Cultural Bridge is a Day of the Dead altar recognizing the death-dealing consequences of drug trafficking across the Americas. It linked drug lords both with the victims of their violence and with the drug users whose costly habit fuels the drug trade.

Opening reception: Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:00-5:00 PM. Bostock Library Second Floor - International & Area Studies DepartmentRECEPTION ATTENDANCE: 20

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The library exhibit, Cultural Bridge: Drugs Across the Americas, curated by Holly

Ackerman, is part of the 25th Anniversary of the N.C. Latin American Film Festival.

See the full festival schedule at: https://sites.google.com/site/22ndfilmfestivalnc/home.

This years festival is focused on narco-trafficking and the related themes of

violence, corruption, in/justice, migration, and environmental degradation.

Cultural Bridge is a Day of the Dead altar recognizing the death-dealing

consequences of drug trafficking across the Americas. It links drug lords both with

the victims of their violence and with the drug users whose costly habit fuels the

drug trade. It also connects the drug-related dead with all living Americans

whose well-being is affected by the continuing problem of drug trafficking and

drug use.

Opening reception: Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:00-5:00 PM

Bostock Library Second Floor - International & Area Studies Department

Promotional piece for the Exhibit

Natalie Hartman, Associate Director CLACS (left). Holly Ackerman (right) Curator, showing some of the pieces and informing about their prov-enance.

STORIES THROUGH MURALSJOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER. Reception, November 12. | AUDIENCE: 35

TOTAL VISITORS : 250

Building community through the arts - engaging, interactive, vibrant, expansive and inclusive this is the work of MARHMI, a collective artistic movement originating from Las Hermanas Mirabal, a province in the Do-minican Republic. Founded in 2009, after the development of one of the Caribbeans largest muralist projects (including over 360 large, inspiring murals painted throughout the province), a group of approximately 200 art-ists came together under the leadership of visual artist Hector Blanco. Through their work, they attempt to break barriers and cross borders while striving to seek solutions that maximize human dignities and potentials found in society.

In 2010 and 2011, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) led groups of Durham Pub-lic School (DPS) teachers and community college faculty on study tours to the Dominican Republic. Teachers experienced first hand how murals are an exercise in building community and consciousness-raising. With funding from CLACS and the Duke Center for Civic Engagement, Hector Blanco was invited to work with DPS teachers and students in 2010, and in the summer of 2011, he came with six artists (Maximo Ceballos, Anthony Vasquez, Federico Velasquez, Carlos Veras, Ezequiel Soto and Alberto Rodriguez). Hector taught the teachers and students: Before you can paint a mural, you need to know your history and the story behind this history. With this understanding, students together with their teachers worked with a community center and local senior citizens groups to document their stories and the story of Durham, which was then honored in a mural painted within the community center. Additional stories and histories are honored and shared in murals painted at Hill-side High School, Shepard Middle School and are currently being developed for the Durham School of the Arts and Josephine Dobbs Early College High School.

A group of artists were present during three weeks in November, developing a series of Murals and participat-ing in workshops and presentations with three Durham Public schools, Community Collegues, UNC-CH, Duke University and World View.

Hector Blanco (center) and two of his local colaborators in Hillside High in Durham. A new generation of Muralists

Panoramic view mural made at Holton Center. Durham (on display)

Images from the exhibition and the reception.

NARCO-NATION | DRUG- BORDERS | UTOPIAN-DIASPORAS Opening event at WEDNESDAYS @ THE CENTERNovember 2nd | Noon to 1pm | ATTENDANCE: 65

Artists talk: Juan Obando (Colombia), Pedro Lasch (Mexico), Ignacio Garcia (Tucson, AZ), Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (Colombia).

November 4th | 7pm-10pm ATTENDANCE: 45 Opening at the Fredric Jameson Gallery POST-HALLOWEEN PARTYNARCO-NATION | DRUG-BORDERS | UTOPIAN-DIASPORAS Performance: Live, Johnny Medejean rave party!Dress appropriately! Vampires, politicians, and federal police welcome!Fredric Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building. 1316 Campus Dr. Durham, NC. 27705

| TOTAL ATTENDANCE 400

About NARCO-NATION | DRUG-BORDERS | UTOPIAN-DIASPORAS This exhibit features Ignacio Garcia (Mexico-U.S.); Juan Obando (Colombia); El Narcoching-adazo Collective (Pedro Lasch & Miguel Rojas-Sotelo), and explores from three perspectives and geographies (Colombia, Mexico and the diasporas in the USA) what is now-called NAR-CO-CULTURE through visual representation. Visual artist Ignacio Garcia, lives and works on the U.S.-Mexico border. As a bi-cultural and bi-lingual artist he is located at the heart of the trade. He defines narco culture as a pure American phenomenon. He underlines how im-ages are produced in a context that allows understanding the reality of the narco-universe we now inhabit Garcias Narco-Nation Collection was presented for the first time on the East Coast. Colombian visual artist and performer, Juan Obando defines narcoaesthetics as a bar-barized version of modern spectacle... He uses the images of famous Colombian drug-lords as the embodiment of capital-become-image. Obando will show two of his collective interactive projects: The Dead Drug Lord and the Bazuco Media Corp projects; both include video, sound, graphics, and commodities. Finally, connecting the entire chain of production, Lasch & Rojas-Sotelo will release a new piece of EL NARCOCHINGADAZO project. A vision into a very-near future.The exhibition offers a space to watch some of the most relevant titles of narco-films produced in the Global South in the past 25 years.

DEAD DRUGLORDS VIDEO

DR. BAZUCO VIDEO

Images from the Fredric Jameson Gallery

Clic to link videos (PDF interactive version -Online)

NARCO-NATION VIDEO

Ignacio Garcias work

Clic to link videos (PDF interactive version -Online)

PRESS |

Some articles in the Latino Press. La Conexion. 11.2.11Que Pasa. 11. 9.11 / 11.16.11

Other Media

Herald Sun. 10.07.11 LATINO FILM FESTIVAL CONTINUES: http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/15935962/article-Latin-American-Film-Festival-continues?instance=main_article

NPR. The State of Things with Frank Stasio. 11.01.11 To hear the show: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/NC_Latin_American_Film_Festival.mp3/view

96.9 LA LEY. CLARO Y DIRECTO with Leonor Clavijo. 10.28.11

RALEIGH COMMUNITY TV. Monday Night Live with Rosalie Hernandez Bocelli. 10.17.11 / 10.23.11 / 11.01.11 / 11.07.11

The Chronicle. Wells outlines strategies to counter drug use. 11.07.11

FILMS | 30

SPECIAL EVENTS | 5

ACADEMIC EVENTS | 7

EXHIBITIONS | 3

GUEST SPEAKERS | 11

PRESS | 8 publications and broadcast

TOTAL AUDIENCE ATTENDING PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS, FILMS, ACADEMIC AND SPECIAL EVENTS (exhibitions are approximations): 3,405

6,747 website hits.

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