Hofstra Cultural Center, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Criminology Program, The Center for Race, Culture and Social Justice II
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BY LUIS
ARGUETA
A TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY
Film Screening and Discussion With Filmmaker Luis Argueta The U Turn, the third documentary in Luis Argueta's immigration trilogy , narrates the t ransformational journey of immigrant workers who broke their silence about abuses endured at the Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The film showcases the U visa, which permits victims of certain crimes who have suffered substantial mental or physical abuse while in the United States to enter or remain when they might not otherwise be able to do so.
Luis Argueta is a Guatemalan-American film director and producer. His 1994 film, The Silence of Neto, a
coming-of-age film set in Cold War-era Guatemala, was the first Guatemalan film to be internationally recognized. Since then, Argueta has produced a trilogy of documentaries (AbUSed: The Postville Raid [201 0], Abrazos [2014], and The U Turn [2016]) that present the human face of immigration and aim to contribute to the national and international conversation on one of the most important topics of our time .
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2019 12:45- 2:15 P.M. U Turn, Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theatre, Axinn Library, First Floor 2:30 - 4:00 P.M. O&A with Luis Argueta, Center for "Race," Roosevelt 203 4:30- 6 P.M. U Turn, Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theatre, Axinn Library, First Floor
Incollaboration withthe the Departmentof RomanceLanguagesand Literatures.
Thisevent is FREEand open to the public. For more informat ion, please call the Hofstra Cultu ral Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture .
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