Date: April 3, 2008
Contact: Carol Connelly, Director, Media & Communication Services, ext. 5267, cconnelly@pnc.edu

PNC Hosts Free Film Showings on Campus

Westville – The Purdue University North Central Spanish Club and the Department of Social Sciences will show four different Latin American films on campus in April. Each film will be shown twice. Most showings will be in Technology Building Room 134. They are free and open to the public. There will be time for discussion and commentary following each film.

On April 9 at noon and April 10 at 4 p.m. “Assaulted Dreams” will be featured. This documentary was shot on the border of Guatemala and Mexico. It presents a first-hand picture of the desperate situation of poverty and migration across Latin America and shows a visible and disturbing face of globalization. This film has been featured in locations all across Latin America in order to dramatize the situation and spur discussion of solutions.

On April 16 at noon (This is the only film to be shown in Library-Student-Faculty Building Assembly Hall Room 02) and April 17 at 4 p.m. “No Volverán - The Venezuelan Revolution Now” will be shown.
This is from the makers of the Hands Off Venezuela film “Solidarity” and the Sanitarios Maracay short film series. “No Volverán - The Venezuelan Revolution Now” is a feature-length documentary about the Venezuelan Revolution. In this in-depth investigation the filmmakers move through the fervor of the presidential elections in December 2006, traveling deep into the shanty towns (barrios) and to several factories under workers' control.

On April 22 at 4 p.m. and April 23 at noon “ Quilombo Country ” will be shown. This award-winning film shows the Brazilian villages that were founded by escaped and rebel slaves. Brazil, once the world's largest slave colony, was brutal and deadly for millions of Africans. Many thousands escaped and rebelled, creating their own communities in Brazil's untamed hinterland. These communities, known as quilombos, are largely unknown to the outside world and struggle to preserve a heritage born of resistance to oppression.

On April 30 at noon and May 1 at 4 p.m. “The Take.” In suburban Buenos Aires, 30 unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. This act, “The Take,” has the power to change the globalization debate. Director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's most outspoken journalists and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller “No Logo,” champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century. What shines through in the film is the simple drama of workers' lives and their struggle: the demand for dignity and the searing injustice of dignity denied.

Further information can be obtained by contacting Dr. Kenneth Kincaid, assistant professor of History at
800-872-1231, ext. 5244 or kkincaid@pnc.edu. Persons with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Kincaid.

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