September Film—Granito:How to Nail a Dictator

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

On Sunday 29 September 2013, join us for the showing of the documentary Granito: How to Nail a Dictator.

Sponsored by:
Amnesty International Local Group 178 (Irvine)
Irvine United Congregational Church, Advocates for Peace and Justice
Living Ubuntu

An Official Selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival

Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala was immersed in a bloody internal armed conflict that pitted the army against guerrilla groups. More than 200,000 men, women and children were murdered or disappeared during this 36-year-long war, most of them were indigenous.

General José Efraín Ríos Montt led Guatemala's military government between March 1982 and August 1983 — one of the bloodiest periods of the conflict when there was an aggressive campaign targeting anyone deemed to be supporting left-wing guerrillas.

Trailer

The 1983 documentary by Pamela Yates, When the Mountains Tremble, showed how the military government, lead by General Montt, killed Mayan civilians. This helped provide key evidence for bringing the indictment, when a Guatemalan court recently convicted former dictator Efraín Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war against the country’s Mayan people in the 1980s. (The conviction has been overturned and a new trial is scheduled.) Granito: How to Nail a Dictator tells the extraordinary story of how a film, aiding a new generation of human rights activists, became a granito — a tiny grain of sand — that helped tip the scales of justice.

Further reading

Historic conviction brings long-awaited justice in Guatemala

Guatemala overturns historic genocide conviction

Movie site

Movie description and background from PBS

Irvine, Sunday 29 September 2013

Granito Movie PosterWhen

Sunday 29 September 2013

18:00 – 21:00 (6:00 PM to 9:00 PM)

6:00 refreshments
6:40 introduction
7:00 film
8:45 discussion

Where

Plumer Hall (building further from the street)
Irvine United Congregational Church
4915 Alton Parkway, Irvine, California 92604

Who

Sponsored by Amnesty International Group 178 (Irvine)
Irvine United Congregational Church, Advocates for Peace and Justice
Living Ubuntu

(See flyer)

An RSVP is appreciated but not required. RSVP to ai_irvine@aiusaoc.org, or on facebook.

What

Film

Showing of the documentary Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

How much

Free

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