Film Screening: LA PALABRA EN EL BOSQUE/THE WORD IN THE WOODS

La Palabra en el Bosque/The Word in the Woods

Jeffrey Gould, Carlos Henriquez
El Salvador/USA, Human Rights Documentary, 2012
56 min, DVCAM/35mm, Color
Spanish with English subtitles

During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazan organized to resist National Guard repression, which often involved torture and executions. In the 1980s, the military engaged in scorched earth operations against their villages, inaugurating a 12-year civil war. La palabra en el bosque tells their stories, placing them in context within the light of current reality.

““La Palabra en el Bosque”, es un documental que pretende mostrar a las nuevas generaciones, cómo era la vida religiosa en en el contexto de la guerra civil salvadoreña, y en uno de los lugares más emblemáticos, el departamento de Morazán”

Producer: Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, Jeffrey Gould
Screenwriter: Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, Jeffrey Gould
Cinematographer: Guillermo Escalon, Paolo Hasbun
Editor: Carlos Colorado
Sound Design: Jose Huwaidi
Music: Ygor de Gondaria, Ramses Calderon

Director, Professor Jeffrey Gould is scheduled to be present.

About the Directors of La Palabra en el Bosque (documentary)

Carlos Henriquez Consalvi is the founder of the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen which is committed to the investigation, rescue, preservation and public exhibition of El Salvador’s history and culture. In 2002, he co-directed and co-produced with Gould the award winning Scars of Memory, El Salvador, 1932.

Jeffrey L. Gould is the James H. Rudy Professor of History at Indiana University. From 1995-2008, he was Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He is also a prolific writer. In 2012-2013 he will be a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.