LPB would like to congratulate producer Paco de Onis and director Pamela Yates for the selection of GRANITO in the Documentary Premieres section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. With the expanding impact and popularity of documentaries in our world today, Documentary Premieres is a new section for 2011 that furthers the Institute’s commitment to this important form of storytelling by showcasing films on big subjects and new works by master filmmakers. For more information about the Sundance Film Festival, please visit: www.sundance.org.
Produced by Paco de Onis and directed by Pamela Yates, GRANITO is screening on the following dates:
TODAY, January 25, 2011, 12:00 p.m.
At Temple Theatre, 3700 North Brookside Court, Park City, UT 84098
Thursday, January 27, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
At Holiday Village Cinema IV, 1776 Park Avenue, Park City, UT 84060
Friday, January 28, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
At the Screening Room, Sundance Resort, North Fork, Provo Canyon, UT
Saturday, January 29, 2011, 9:00 p.m.
At Temple Theatre, 3700 North Brookside Court, Park City, UT 84098
More information about the screenings HERE.
GRANITO
Producer: Paco de Onis; Director: Pamela Yates
Genre: Documentary
Length: 90 Minutes
GRANITO is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in GRANITO are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal “scorched earth” campaign by the military exterminated nearly 200,000 Maya people. Now, as if a watchful Maya god were weaving back together threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time, forgotten by most, our characters become integral to the overarching narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have pieced together, each adding their granito, their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.GRANITO is co-production of Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB). For more information about the film, please visit the filmmaker’s website at: www.skylightpictures.com.770 Views
