GRANITO (2011)

GRANITO (2011)

200,000 indigenas mayas asesinados en Guatemala desde 1982 y los responsables siguen impunes...

Un nuevo documental, que fue presentado en el Festival de Cine Sundance, pone la lupa sobre la violación de derechos humanos en Guatemala y el impacto que el género puede tener en la historia.

El festival creado por Robert Redford -que se celebra en enero en Park City, Utah- es considerado como la mejor vitrina para el cine independiente en Estados Unidos.

En “Granito”, la directora Pamela Yates examina filmaciones de su documental sobre la masacre de indígenas en Guatemala “When the Montains Tremble” -estrenado a principio de los años 80-, al tiempo que explora la influencia de la obra en investigaciones del caso y los juicios contra funcionarios acusados de genocidio.


GRANITO 10min from Skylight Pictures on Vimeo.

GRANITO is a story of destinies joined by Guatemalas past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nations turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present. In GRANITO our 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. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in GRANITO are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal scorched earth campaign by the military exterminated nearly 200,000 Maya people. Now, as if a watchful Maya god were weaving back together threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time, forgotten by most, our characters become integral to the overarching narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have pieced together, each adding their granito, their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.


Granito trailer from Skylight Pictures on Vimeo.