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BY JOHN LOCANTHI
Yates, a Spanish lawyer, and others to bring
former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos
Montt to justice in an international court.
Before this, however, the viewer is treated
to a lot of clips and B-roll from the When
the Mountains Tremble. This older footage
gives viewers a sketch of what happened
in that Latin American country in 1981-
2, for those who haven’t seen the original
documentary. Yates rarely misses a chance
to show herself in these clips, in case you
were curious just who was documenting
the living hell that had become most rural,
indigenous Guatemalans’ lives.
Hundreds of thousands were “disappeared”
under the brutal military regimes propped up
by Uncle Sam. In recent years, as Granito
shows, researchers and investigators have
found reams of evidence and obtained un-
classifi ed documents to prove these orders
were coming from the highest levels of the
military. But the Guatemalan government
refused to let Ríos Montt be extradited and
tried for his crimes. There will be no ultimate
justice, but it remains important to remember
the atrocities of the past and treasure those
civilians that survived.
From Activism to (New) Zealand
Film festival brings an alphabet soup of documentaries
D
ocumentaries come in many
different forms. Originally a
very dry, informative genre, in
recent years the documentary has morphed
into self-proclaiming activism and even
philosophical essays that deliberately
mislead the viewer, as in Orson Welles’ F
for Fake. The Good Works Film Festival
in town this week at Bijou Cinemas and the
Hult features a selection that runs the gamut
from traditional documentaries to Michael
Moore imitators spending as much time
discussing themselves as their subject.
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
When the Mountains Tremble, a
documentary about the Guatemalan
genocide in the early 1980s, fi rst aired at
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The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
A yodeling musical comedy show put
on by lesbian twins from the backwoods
of New Zealand? It sounds too exotic to
be true, but the Topp Twins have become
cultural icons in their native land.
Untouchable Girls follows Jools and
Lynda Topp through the early days of working
on their parents’ farm and performing on the
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the inaugural Sundance Film Festival. The
movie caused an international uproar and
resulted in Rigoberta Menchú, one of the
few to speak out about the brutality, winning
a Nobel Peace Prize. Pamela Yates made
that earth-shattering fi lm, and in 2011’s
Granito, she wants you to know it.
Styled as part-memoir, part-political
thriller, Granito follows the efforts of
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