Film Screening & Discussion
El Salvador: I Want My People to Live
Wednesday July 08, 2009
$8-$10 sliding scale - 7:30pm Film
Celebrate the FMLN victory in the 2009 Salvadoran presidential elections with the film El Salvador: I Want My People to Live (Dir. Adrian Carrasco Zanini, 2009). This 30-minute documentary follows the story through interviews with voters, electoral officials, and members of the competing parties. Discussion with the filmmaker to follow.
Seventeen years after laying down their weapons to become a peaceful political party, the former guerillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won a resounding victory this March in El Salvador's national elections. This 27-minute documentary follows the story through interviews with voters, electoral officials, and members of the competing parties.
Salvadoran president-elect Mauricio Funes is now set to take office in June at the head of a government of change which includes indigenous politicians and has promised to grant a historic new recognition of the worth and dignity of the country's original peoples in accordance with international agreements on the rights of indigenous nations. Discussion with the film maker Adrian Carrasco Zanini.
