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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Good afternoon all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Please join us for the next screening of the Fifth Latin American Film Festival,</span><span style="color:black">
</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Mute Fire</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
<i>(PIROTECNIA)</i> (Federico Atehortúa Arteaga / Colombia / 2020 / 83 min). The film will be screened in person at the
<b>Kitchener Public Library theatre</b> (KPL Central Branch, 85 Queen Street North) on
<b>Wednesday, Nov.1<sup>st</sup> at 6:30 PM. </b>Professor David Rozotto will provide a brief introduction to the film and lead a post-screening discussion with the audience. Interested? Watch the trailer here:</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://vimeo.com/656744901"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">https://vimeo.com/656744901</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">If you plan on attending, please register for the film</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.kpl.org/programs-and-events/event-listing/register?&eventID=5220"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">https://www.kpl.org/programs-and-events/event-listing/register?&eventID=5220</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The film will also be
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://pragda.com/sfc-event/sfc-university-of-waterloo/"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">available online for streaming</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
for one week. See below for details.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><img border="0" width="465" height="232" style="width:4.8437in;height:2.4166in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DA07FF.B0424940" alt="A person saluting with text overlay
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">About the film.<i>
</i></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> “In the tradition of Harun Farocki and João Moreira Salles, in this personal film essay, Federico Atehortúa Arteaga examines the relationship between film footage, the events of the war in
Colombia, his family’s story, and the origins of cinema in the country.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">On March 6, 1906, four people were executed in the streets for the attempted assassination of the then-president of Colombia, Rafael Reyes. The representation in images of this
event is considered the beginning of cinema in Colombia. Arteaga embarks on a deep investigation of media representation through his film, which explores how cinema became an instrument of power and control in the country’s violent political history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">As Arteaga’s mother suffers an episode of mutism -without any explanation she stops talking-, the film’s focus widens to examine the family’s own relationship with imagery, memory,
and politics. As a result, Arteaga decides to investigate the family’s past and finds a video archive of a children’s play in which he himself acts, pretending to be a captured false guerrilla.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">These images bring him back to his original film and lead him to find the relationship that exists between recent tragic events in Colombian history, the <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">false
positives, </span></em>innocent people extrajudicially killed by members of the Colombian army, and then falsely labeled as enemy combatants. Nobody knows exactly how many young people became false positives. The most recent report released by Colombia’s attorney
general’s office says that between 1988 and 2014, around 2,248 people were killed. Previous reports by human rights organizations have estimated that the number may be 5,000 OR EVEN HIGHER.”- PRAGDA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">You can also stream
<i>Mute Fire</i></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
<b>from Nov.1<sup>st</sup> until Nov.8<sup>th</sup> from the Festival Portal</b>. For access to the portal and to learn more about the Festival, you can visit the
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/5th-annual-latin-american-film-festival-sept-20-nov-15">
5<sup>th</sup> Annual Latin American Film Festival webpage</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Best wishes, <br>
Kira<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">-- Kira Youngblut<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Administrative Manager, </span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/"><span lang="EN-US">Spanish and Latin American Studies</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">University of Waterloo</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Modern Languages 316<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Email: </span><a href="mailto:slas@uwaterloo.ca"><span lang="EN-US">slas@uwaterloo.ca</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 43059</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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