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SponsoredbytheDepartmentofCentralAmericanStudies,theCentralAmericanWritingFilmSeries,andcourtesyofRodrigoReyRosaandGuillermoEscalón.

CARCEL DE ÁRBOLES PRISON OF TREES A FILM BY GUILLERMO ESCALÓN AND RODRIGO REY ROSA

Chainedandtortured,dozensofyouthsfromtheUnitedStatesandfromprominent Guatemalan families were held captive in the depths of theGuatemalan jungle in the 1970s and 1980s.With the complicity of themilitaryhighcommandthatgovernedGuatemalaatthetime,theywerebrainwashed toworshipDaveBurden,aquackAmerican therapist,whocarriedouthisdarkprojectinvolvingaddictedandmentallyillyouth.Thefilm’stitlecomesfromthetitleinSpanishofthe1991novelbyRodrigoReyRosa,whichwaspublishedinEnglishasThePelicariProject.Init,henarrates events similar to the ones that took place in the jungle prisonmanyyearsbeforetheybecamepublicknowledge.Inthisfilm,RodrigoReyRosaandGuillermoEscalónexaminetheentanglementsoflifeandfiction.InSpanishwithEnglishsubtitles.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 12:30PM – 1:45PM NORDHOFF HALL 113

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