
Outriders
In June 1998, 50 people embarked on a month-long bus odyssey to gather stories of people struggling with poverty due to welfare cuts and downsizing.
A 26-year-old documentary became vital forensic evidence in the trial of a dictator for human-rights abuses.
Pamela Yates is an American documentary filmmaker. She was born and raised in the Appalachian coal-mining region of Pennsylvania, but ran away from home at age 16 to live in New York City. Yates is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures, a production company dedicated to making media about human rights and the quest for justice. Four of Yates's films — When the Mountains Tremble; Poverty Outlaw; Takeover,… Show more
Paco de Onís grew up in several Latin American countries and is multilingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French). He is currently producing Granito, a documentary film focused on the role of filmic and archival documentation in the prosecution of a genocide case against Guatemalan generals. He recently produced The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court… Show more
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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.
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