Moving Forward with the Festival

While dining on heart-shaped cupcakes in the spirit of Valentine's Day, we reviewed the list of films we compiled over the last week as possibilities for the festival. Looking over about twenty films, we realized that the best next move would be to organize themes which the films would correspond to. Memory and dictatorship, migration, globalization and social justice, representation-who is representing whom?, and environmental justice were only a few of the ideas that were tossed around today. Making sure that the subtopics repond to the question of challenges and opportunities was the hardest part of organizing these themes. For example, how does memory respond to challenges and opportunities in Latin America? At the end of our meeting we decided to split up the films so we could all watch them and make sure the films were of good quality and presentable for the festival. The big question to look forward to next week will be how exactly we are going to schedule these viewings with the amount of time that we are allotted. :D (Challenges and Opportunities..)