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We are so honored and excited to excited that our upcoming film 500 Years#500Years will receive support from Latino Public Broadcasting. This will go a long way in making sure this timely and precedent-setting story reaches a wide audience! http://lpbp.org/2015-pmcf-recipients Pictured below: Guatemalans react to news...
Matilde Terraza, Maya Ixil Producer, assists in the translation of Granito: How to Nail a Dictator from Spanish into Maya Ixil. Translating and recording our films into multiple languages versions is central to the human rights distribution strategy at Skylight, and insuring our work is...
It's been a horrifying and saddening week in news. With heavy hearts we share what we've been reading. Paris, Beirut, and the attacks of last week: “Is it wrong to mourn Paris more deeply than Beirut?” asks Jeanne Kay in the Nation. Some bodies are global, but...
We're trying something new at Skylight: Weekly news digests, posted on our blog, which will gather the articles published in the past week that tell stories that were not sufficiently covered in the mainstream media. Skylight works to change the narrative around human rights and...
On Thursday 10/22, we heard to fascinating presentations from Llan Carlos Dávila, of CODIDENA, and Gabriela Álvarez Castañeda of Florecerás NYC about Guatemalan resistance movements, at home and abroad. Popular movements oppose corruption in government and the incursion of the extractive industries in indigenous lands,...
Skylight stands in solidarity with the warehouse workers affected by unsafe conditions. We call upon B&H Photo to treat all of its workers ethically and with respect. As a leading marketplace for photo and video equipment, B&H has an opportunity and responsibility to inspire other companies...
On October 7th, we concluded our second crowdfunding campaign at Skylight. Creative Director Pamela Yates met master cinematographer Haskell Wexler in Nicaragua in 1984 on the set of Wexler's film Latino, and from that time on, Haskell became Pamela's mentor and life-long friend. When Haskell asked Pamela...
How can you commemorate the second anniversary of the #SentenciaPorGenocidio? Download these instructions in .pdf format 1. Read the verdict: Record and upload a short video of yourself reading a passage from the guilty verdict of Ríos Montt, and share it on Facebook, www.facebook.com/sentenciaporgenocidio, as well as...
Last April, Pam joined Guatemalan filmmaker Izabel Acevedo in panel discussion about the role that documentary can play in talking about the civil war and genocide trials in Guatemala, in an event moderated by Prof. Peter Lucas as part of the ongoing Guatemala Después Exhibit at the New School....
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