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Join us for a free screening of the award-winning film “We the Stones” followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Alvaro Torres Crespo.
About the film:
Even though the Costa Rican government expelled them from their lands in the name of ecologic preservation 40 years ago, a group of panners keep searching the rivers for gold in the jungle. Their living as modern pariahs shows their fight for survivance and questions the country’s conservationist fame. You can watch the trailer here.
About the filmmaker:
Alvaro Torres Crespo is based in San José, his hometown. He studied audiovisual production at the Northwest Film Center in Oregon, and completed a Master’s degree in Film and Script at the University of Texas at Austin. His shorts, both documentaries and fictions, have participated in festivals in Central America and the United States. Álvaro is a professor of direction and direction of photography at the Film and Television School of the Veritas University. He recently completed his feature film, Nosotros las piedras, a documentary about the gold panners of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, which just began its distribution, and is currently working on the development of his fiction debut Quebrada Ignacia.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Alvaro Torres Crespo and Yoruba Richen, director of the documentary program at Newmark J-School.