Film Screening "Secrets from Putumayo"
Screening of the documentary "Secrets from Putumayo" (2022), directed by Brazilian filmmaker Aurelio Michiles in DPAC. This thought-provoking documentary revisits the Putumayo region in Peru and the torture, mutilation, and killings documented and denounced by Roger Casement. The movie's poignant script gives voice to the local Peruvian population through interviews with descendants of the Putumayo Human Rights atrocities. The screening of the movie will be followed by a Q&A with director Aurelio Michiles, and, in tune with the idea of valuing the agency and human dignity of indigenous populations, a contemporary Human Rights and environmental protection leader, Vanda Witoto, from the Brazilian Amazon region will also participate in the event (TBC). Ms. Witoto is a strong community and political leader who has brought great visibility to the contemporary Human Right violations in the Amazon Region. Her participation will hopefully reinforce the timeliness and importance of Casement’s legacy nowadays.
This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will be available for pick-up at the Ticket Office one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your seat, please pick up your tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the show. In the event of a sell-out, unclaimed tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby.
Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Documentary Film, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Institute for Race and Resilience, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and the Department of Irish Language and Literature.