General Information

Author/Creator

Yates, Pamela, director.

Language

English, Spanish.

Subtitles

English, Spanish; Castilian

Published

United States : Skylight Pictures, 2011.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (103 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_10000814

Contents/Summary

Summary

Granito is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film, intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history, emerges as an active player in the present. In 1982, fledgling filmmaker Pamela Yates went to Guatemala to make a movie about the civil war devastating that country. The resulting documentary When the Mountains Tremble centered on guerrillas — including student protestors and indigenous Mayan people — fighting the country’s repressive military government at the time when the outcome of the conflict was uncertain. While filming, Yates was allowed to shoot the only known footage of the army as it carried out the genocide. More than 20 years later, after a change in the government of Guatemala, the country began to investigate the slaughter of the Mayan people, and a war crimes tribunal in Spain even set out to prepare a case to indict the former leaders of the country. Yates realized that excerpts and outtakes from her earlier film might aid the prosecution, and this case forced her to look back and question the role she had played as an observer and filmmaker.

Bibliographic Information

Note

Verzio Film Festival Submission

Duration: 01:43:00

Library Special Collection

Verzio Film Festival Submission

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2675	Available		Spanish sub
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2675 (HU_OSA_00004283.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format, with Spanish sub
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2675	Available		English sub
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2675 (HU_OSA_10000814.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format, with English sub