Film Screening (Feature followed by a short):

H2Omx 

(José Cohen & Lorenzo Hagerman, 2014, 82 min, Mexico, in Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color)

Can a mega-city mobilize its 22 million citizens to become water sustainable? Mexico City was built not near water but in the middle of a lake. To supply it with fresh water is such a task that it makes it compulsory to bring it from other states. In addition once sewage water leaves the city it ends up in agriculture. This film is an environmental case study of the Valley of Mexico as it struggles to save itself while its population grows.

"A rallying cry for government and collective action, H2Omx is a good-looking, well-researched and smartly assembled documentary that makes a persuasive case that the time is nigh to remedy the status of water management in the Valley of Mexico." -- Variety 

Followed by:

En la Orilla 

(Xavier Basurto & Liza Hoos, 2014, Mexico, 12 min, in Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color) 

-- Q&A to follow w/ director Xavier Basurto! 

Gaspar and his family live in Agua Verde, a 256-person town on the eastern coast of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. They struggle to catch enough fish and make enough money to pay for the things they need, living at the edge of their means. Fishing is getting harder every year, but Gaspar still has faith that with enough patience and time, he can maintain his family's quality of life. 

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Duke-UNC 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).