Screen/Society-- NC Latin American Film Festival--Matinee screening: "To Stay or Go? Voices from Oaxaca" (Premiere--w/ director Elva Bishop in person)

Saturday, October 6, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Screen/Society-- NC Latin American Film Festival--Matinee screening: "To Stay or Go? Voices from Oaxaca" (Premiere--w/ director Elva Bishop in person)

Matinee Film Screening:

 

To Stay or Go? Voices From Oaxaca
(Elva Bishop, 2012, 37min min, USA/Mexico, English & Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD)

-- Premiere, with director Elva Bishop in person!

To Stay or Go? follows a delegation organized by Witness for Peace and CHICLE Language Institute to the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. While in Oaxaca the group faced the forces driving emigration: economics, NAFTA, lack of resources due to international corporations, and resulting broken families. Strategies to cope with staying include creative farming methods in the dry Mixteca region, the preservation of native seeds, a women's weaving co-operative, organizations to protect indigenous rights, and the empowerment of women and alternative education. The complexity of the dangers and possibilities affects families on both sides of the border.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

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

White 107 (White Lecture Hall)