The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

GPIA & Latin America Forum
present a screening of

Santiago

Friday, Apirl 18th
6 - 8 p.m.
66 W 12th Street, Room 404

free event!
refreshments will be served

Followed by a discussion with:
Carlos Gutierrez - Cinema Tropical
Simone Duarte - GPIA Documentary Film Series
Peter Lucas - Professor of Human Rights & Media at the New School

João Moreira Salles is one of Brazil's foremost documentary filmmakers. In 1992 he began shooting a film about Santiago, the butler in his childhood home who left an indelible mark upon the family. Santiago was an educated man who, in addition to his work, produced some 60,000 pages of stories documenting his surroundings as well as tales of aristocratic lifestyles, including that of the house in which he himself served.

Through his personal voice-over, Salles sheds light on his family and childhood, and on the reasons why the film took so long to complete. The result is an elegant mosaic with two parallel narratives, dealing with universal topics such as memory, identity, and documentary filmmaking. Santiago has been screened at some of the most important documentary film festivals and recently took the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Réel in Paris.