Columbia University New York, N.Y. 10027 Office of Public Information (212) 854-5573
The Documentary Center at Columbia University will hold a preview screening on Tuesday, June 27 of "The Bishop, The Warrior and Rebellion in Chiapas," a documentary-in-progress by Saul Landau and Haskell Wexler on the current Zapatista rebellion in Mexico.
The film contains unique footage of Subcomandante Marcos, the leader of the revolt, as well as interviews with key officials from the Mexican government and the Catholic Church. The screening will begin at 8 P.M. in the Tinker Auditorium at the Alliance Francaise, 22 East 60th Street.
A panel discussion with Saul Landau will follow the film. Other panelists will include Ambassador Jorge Pinto, Consul General of Mexico in New York; Dr. Douglas Chalmers, director of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University; Dr. Susan Kaufman Purcell, vice president of the Americas Society; and Dr. Lisa Fuentes, professor of history at American University. David Brooks, U.S. correspondent for La Jornada, will be the moderator.
The film is directed and co-produced by Saul Landau with Meredith Burch and Haskell Wexler, who is the film's cinematographer and the Academy Award-winning cinematographer of "Bound for Glory" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" as well as the director of "Medium Cool". Saul Landau has made over 40 films, including the Emmy Award-winning "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang". The Mexican producer is Epigmenio Ibarra.
The screening is the second public event of the Documentary Center, which opened this past fall under the sponsorship of Columbia's School of the Arts and Graduate School of Journalism. The Center is closely affiliated with the Program for Art on Film, which has a database covering 25,000 productions on the visual arts provides an invaluable resource. The Center's director, Dr. John S. Friedman, said: "The Center is a vibrant forum for exploring the ways in which documentaries reflect and influence the human condition."
John S. Friedman is the producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie". He is a 1964 graduate of Columbia College and holds a M.A. from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. Deputy directors of the Center are Richard Kaplan, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker, who directed "The Eleanor Roosevelt Story" and "King: Montgomery to Memphis" and Larry Engel, a professor in the Film Division of the School of the Arts and the Graduate School of Journalism.
In 1916, Columbia became the first American university to offer a course on film. Its graduate Film Division was established as part of the School of the Arts in the 1960's.
There will be a $15 admission fee for the screening. For more information call the Documentary Center at 212-854-9578.
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