Film Screening: La sierra

February 8, 4:30 PM

Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center, 3rd Floor, American University

La Sierra

Colombia/US, 53 min., documentary
Directors: Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez

More than 30,000 people have been killed over the last ten years in Colombia’s bloody civil conflict, in which left-wing guerillas fight against the government and illegal right-wing paramilitary groups. Recently, as guerillas and paramilitaries sought to control marginal city neighborhoods, urban gangs aligned themselves with each side. In this way, the national conflict was translated into a brutal turf war that pitted adjacent barrios against each other. The documentary La Sierra explores life over the course of a year in one such barrio (La Sierra, in Medellin), through the prism of three young lives.