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Film Screening: Utama, with Filmmaker Present!
Join us for a screening of UTAMA and post-screening panel with director Alejandro Loayza Grisi, Tara Daly (Associate Professor of Spanish and co-Director of the Center for Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies), Nathalie González (an undergraduate student and Evans Scholar at Marquette), and Pedro de Jesús Gonsalez Dúran (a graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Madison)
This screening is sponsored by The Marquette Office of Research and Innovation: Explorer Grant and The Center for Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies, Marquette University.
In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself. This visually jaw-dropping debut feature by photographer-turned-filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi is lensed by award-winning cinematographer Barbara Alvarez (Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman) and won the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival.
5:30-6pm: Arrival, concessions for purchase
6pm-7:30pm: Brief Introduction of Alejandro; Screening of UTAMA
7:30-8:15pm: Panel/Q+A with audience
8:15-9:00pm: Reception
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