Skylight Pictures: Press Kit

Press Kit

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Pamela Yates

Paco de Onís's

Peter Kinoy

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Pamela Yates filming on "When the Mountains Tremble" in the Guatemalan highlands, 1982. The footage from this film is now being used as forensic evidence in the Guatemalan genocide case – the story told in her current film "Granito"

credit: Dana Lixenberg
Alejandra Garcia’s father disappeared when she was a year and 8 months old. She became a lawyer to avenge his forced disappearance and presumed death.

credit: Jean-Marie Simon
Military occupation of the Guatemalan highlands 1982 The 1998 Truth Commission concluded that successive military dictatorships committed genocide against the Maya population.

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Portrait of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the original storyteller in “When the Mountains Tremble”. Rigoberta Menchú is currently running for President of Guatemala.

credit: Dana Lixenberg
Alejandra García, her Grandmother Emilia García, and her mother Nineth Montenegro. When Alejandras’s father Fernando was disappeared in 1984, her mother Nineth started the first human rights organization in Guatemala, The Mutual Support Group (GAM), to help women find their disappeared husbands. Fernando Garcia’s body has never been found.

credit: Dana Lixenberg
The Caba family in front of their home in the Ixil highlands of Guatemala. The Army massacred 95 people in their village in 1982 during the genocide, and since that time, the family has never stopped seeking justice for the perpetrators.

credit: Susan Meiselas
Head of the Guatemalan Armed Forces in 1982 General Benedicto Lucas García shown here leading a group of helicopters as part of the Army’s scorched earth campaign in the indigenous highlands of Guatemala. General Lucas García has been issued an arrest warrant for genocide committed during this time.