The 2013 NC Latin American Film Festival presents:

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

(Pamela Yates, 2011, 103 min, USA/Guatemala/Spain, in Spanish with English subtitles, Color, DVD).

Granito is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film from 1982, When the Mountains Tremble, becomes forensic evidence to help prove a genocide case against a military dictator. In Granito, the 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. Like a crime thriller where the narrative is revealed step by step, this epic film travels between present and past, uncovering evidence of massive crimes and bringing accountability to the present.

--Winner of the Justice Matters Award at the 2012 Washington DC Filmfest!

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).