Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, Presented by the Talking Pictures Festival

Sometimes a film makes history; it doesn’t just document it. So it is with GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR, the astonishing new film by Pamela Yates. Part political thriller, part memoir, Yates transports us back in time to 1982 and Guatemala’s genocide against the Mayan people, a story she documented at the time with her film When the Mountains Tremble. That film turned out to be the only documentary record of the Guatemalan civil war. Fast-forward 28 years later and the earlier film becomes evidence in an international war-crimes case against the former commander of the army, while reuniting Yates with Rigoberta Menchú, now a Nobel laureate, and others who continue to contribute their granito (tiny grain of sand) in a continuing quest for the truth.

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