"Women Make Movies 3" presents a Latina film fest

Lenoir-Rhyne College, Centro Latino, and Women’s Resource Center present Women Make Movies 3, a documentary film series featuring, “Protest, Memory, and the State in Latin America.”  The films will be shown at Belk Centrum on the L-R campus Friday and Saturday evening, Sept. 22 and 23 beginning at 7 p.m. The movies are free and open to the public.

The film fest begins with Friday’s showing of “I Wonder What You Will Remember of September,” a film by Cecilia Cornejo, and “La Cueca Sola” by Marilu Mallet. The series concludes Saturday evening with “Everyone Their Grain of Sand,” a documentary by Beth Bird.  

Cornejo’s documentary weaves together her personal response to the events of September 11, 2001, and childhood memories of the September 11, 1973, coup in Chile and thoughtfully explores how personal and collective histories intersect, and how trauma is lived and passed on to generations. Acclaimed filmmaker Marilu Mallet returns after 30 years in exile to interview five Chilean women from three generations in her film “La Cueca Sola,” who suffered under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and have emerged as heroes under democracy. Bird’s award-winning documentary “Everyone Their Grain of Sand,” reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government’s attempts to evict them from their homes to make way for multi-national corporations seeking cheap land and labor.

This film series is funded in part by Hickory Community Relations Council. For more information call WRC at (828) 322-6333 or visit the website: www.wrchickory.org Women’s Resource Center is a member agency of Catawba County United Way.

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