SOAW Latin America Coordinator Lisa Sullivan to report on Honduras after the coup

Cinema Arts Centre and SOA Watch are teaming up to screen the critically acclaimed 2008 documentary Our Disappeared (Nuestros Desaparecidos) on Sunday, September 20.

Scene from Our Disappeared

In the film, writer-director Juan Mandelbaum returns to his native Argentina to search for old friends who were among the 30,000 “disappeared” (kidnapped and killed) by the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. Through rare archival footage and personal interviews, the film explores what happens when brutal regimes attack a country with impunity.

The film’s composer, Argentine musician Gustavo Moretto, will speak after the screening. He is currently a professor in charge of the instrumental program at LaGuardia Community College in New York City.

Moretto will be joined by Lisa Sullivan, coordinator of SOA Watch’s Latin American office, who will report on the situation in Honduras. She visited the country immediately after the coup with a delegation from SOA Watch, working with human rights activists in Tegucigalpa. Sullivan has lived in Latin America since 1977. She worked for 21 years as a Maryknoll lay missioner in Venezuela and Bolivia, and currently lives in Venezuela.

Screening of Our Disappeared (Nuestros Desaparecidos) (99 min.)
Sunday, September 20, 2009, 2:30pm
Panel Discussion and reception following film.
Tickets: $15 (includes reception)
Advance tickets available at CinemaArtsCentre.org, or Brown Paper Tickets (800-838-3006)

Part of the proceeds will be contributed to human rights organizations in Honduras.