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29 Aug SKYLIGHT SUPPORTS THE WORK OF IVAN VELASQUEZ AND THE COMMISSION AGAINST IMPUNITY IN GUATEMALA

Posted at 10:24h in 500 Years, Engagement, Film Festivals, Film News, Guest Blog, Human Rights in Focus, Journal, News Digest, Outreach, Press Release, Uncategorized by Ximena Amescua Cuenca

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SKYLIGHT SUPPORTS THE WORK OF IVAN VELASQUEZ AND THE COMMISSION AGAINST IMPUNITY IN GUATEMALA We are a non-profit human rights media company working with Guatemalans since 1982 to create the documentaries,...

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15 Jun 500 YEARS Announces U.S. Theatrical Premiere on July 12

Posted at 14:28h in 500 Years, Film Festivals, Film News, Journal by Ximena Amescua Cuenca

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500 YEARS will have its U.S. theatrical premiere on July 12 at New York’s IFC Center, followed by a release in select cities. The film, which premiered to standing ovations...

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12 Apr Standing Ovations: 500 Years Hits the Festival Circuit

Posted at 16:03h in Journal by Paco

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500 Years has launched into the world, with Mayan protagonists Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj and Andrea Ixchíu receiving standing ovations at every stop on the festival circuit! With 5 sold...

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15 Dec ‘A Camera in Hand and an Idea in Mind’ Revisited

Posted at 16:50h in Guest Blog, Journal, Next Steps Now by Ximena Amescua Cuenca

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Written by Carlos A. Gutiérrez “A camera in hand and an idea in mind,” the cri de coeur of the Cinema Novo movement, is as relevant now in the United States...

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08 Dec 500 YEARS to premiere at Sundance Film Festival

Posted at 15:35h in 500 Years, Film Festivals, Film News, Journal, Press Release by Ximena Amescua Cuenca

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The world premiere of third film in the Guatemalan resistance trilogy, 500 YEARS, set to release on Sundance stage this coming January.     500 YEARS, the much anticipated third film from Director...

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10 Nov We’ve Seen This Before

Posted at 09:51h in Journal by Paco

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There’s a scene from our film “The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court” where Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC Prosecutor at the time, is giving his bi-annual report...

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