Film Screening:

Reportero 

(Bernardo Ruiz, 2012, 90 min, USA/Mexico, in Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD) 

Reportero follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for the media. In Mexico, more than 40 journalists have been slain or have vanished since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderón came to power and launched a government offensive against the country's powerful drug cartels and organized crime groups. As the drug war intensifies and the risks to journalists become greater, will the free press be silenced?

--"A powerful reminder of how journalism often requires immense amounts of physical and psychological bravery."-- New York Magazine 

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).