It might have taken director Pamela Yates 34 years to complete the Guatemalan trilogy she started in 1983 with When the Mountains Tremble, which premiered at a then still very young Sundance Film Festival, which had just relocated to Park City. But the story she chronicles in the series’ closing part — after Mountains and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, from 2011 — is a struggle that stretches back decades and, to an extent, even centuries, as the title 500 Years suggests. Yates is a political filmmaker, and the fate of the small state of Guatemala (slightly smaller than Pennsylvania,...
- 1/30/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For director Pamela Yates and her colleagues at Skylight, 500 Years marks the end of a documentary trilogy on Guatemala. The film follows When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011), both of which screened in previous years at the Sundance Film Festival. Veteran documentary editor Peter Kinoy edited all three films. Below, he discusses Skylight’s unique model as both a human rights organization and a film production company. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the editor of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired for this job? Kinoy: I […]...
- 1/25/2017
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
We're living in something of a golden era for documentary filmmaking. Whether on the big screen, though more frequently on cable -- where a plethora of specialty channels offer a variety of outlets -- documentaries can more easily reach an audience than ever before. But are they making an impact? It seems that every doc that comes along is pushing some kind of issue or agenda, but that little of that is felt once the credits roll ninety minutes later. But every now and then comes a movie that shakes the ground just a little bit, and not only opens eyes, but inspires action and "Granito: How To Nail A Dictator" is a remarkable chronicle of one film that did just that.
Back in 1982, the young Pamela Yates headed to Guatemala with Newton Thomas Siegel to document the government's ongoing, U.S. government-backed genocide of the indigenous Mayan people, and...
Back in 1982, the young Pamela Yates headed to Guatemala with Newton Thomas Siegel to document the government's ongoing, U.S. government-backed genocide of the indigenous Mayan people, and...
- 6/28/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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