Apr 26 2006

Granito de Arena

Feature Stories | Published 26 Apr 2006, 8:49 am | 2 Comments -

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granito de arenaGUEST: Jill Freidberg, award winning film maker

“Granito de Arena,” or Grain of Sand is the title of award-winning filmmaker Jill Freidberg’s new documentary. Freidberg is best known for her 2000 documentary, “This is What Democracy Looks Like,” about the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle in 1999. “Grain of Sand,” portrays the struggle for public education in Mexico against the forces of privatization and globalization. Freidberg spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the grassroots, non-violent, mobilization of hundreds of thousands of teachers. Featuring notable interviews with Eduardo Galeano and Maude Barlow, “Grain of Sand” won the award for “Best Documentary” at the 2005 International Documentary Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. People’s historian, Howard Zinn called the film “Exciting, inspiring. An extraordinary account of ordinary people organizing, protesting, resisting against enormous odds.”

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  1. # Cathleen A. Carlsonon 26 Apr 2006 at 4:11 pm

    I want to purchase the film. Is it possible to buy the DVD?

    Thank you,
    Cathleen Carlson

  2. # Joe Farison 27 Apr 2006 at 7:57 am

    I was glad to hear this show which provided a much needed window to what is going on in the world. I was able to view the film last night at CSULA, which was followed by a discussion led by a panel, each one of whom had attended at least one of the Tri-national Conferences in Defense of Public Education.
    The effects of The World Bank’s policies and NAFTA on Mexico’s people and more specifically its teachers was well documented in Granito… One can only hope that this inspiring work shall act as a wake up call for all teachers and the rest of the human race.

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