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re: “State of Fear”

Listen to Leonard Lopate interview with Pamela Yates on WNYC (NPR)

Posted by Paco on Jul 20, 2006 - 05:14 PM 

Peru’s National Television Station airs multiple broadcasts of State of Fear after Fujimori Arrest

re: “State of Fear”

Peru’s National Television Station (Canal 7) decides to air multiple broadcasts of State of Fear after Fujimori arrest in Chile:

Peru’s National Television Channel (Canal 7), the most watched in the country, has decided to air multiple broadcasts of State of Fear over the coming year, which will have huge public impact and go a long way towards reasserting the findings of the Peruvian Truth Commission in the collective memory of the nation.  As Peru enters a critical election year and ex-President Alberto Fujimori threatens to return, the State of Fear broadcasts will enrich the national debate over which direction the country should take as it continues to grapple with the legacy of a 20-year “war on terror”.  As Truth Commissioner Carlos Iván Degregori says in our film,

“The Truth Commission believes that Peru must remember the terrible years we’ve lived through. If people have no memory, they don’t know if they’re coming or going, and are easily manipulated. The same for a country with no memory.  It won’t know its past, will repeat mistakes and be easily manipulated.”

Posted by Paco on Dec 15, 2005 - 06:08 PM 

Excerpts from a remarkable letter…

re: “State of Fear”

Excerpts from a remarkable letter we received after the screening of State of Fear in Kathmandu, Nepal (October 4, 2005):

Dear Pamela Yates,
this is Kanak Mani Dixit, chair of the Film South Asia/Barrel of the
Gun festival which we completed last week overcoming government
threats and other challenges.
I am writing, firstly, to tell you that as the closing film of the Barrel of
the Gun, “State of Fear” was greeted with pin-drop silence from a
house-full audience of more than 300. And in every mind, there was
a constant refrain—a comparing and contrasting with the situation
we face here in Nepal vis-a-vis the Maobaadi (Sendoro Luminoso),
Kathmandu-centricism (Lima), Fujimori (King Gyanendra), and a
parallel history of neglect of ‘backward’ people of the hills and plains,
and so on. Though no two countries are of course alike there was
so much resonance in your film that every person in the audience I
know wanted this film to be shown to a larger audience.
Which brings me to another point: right after the film screening
some of us got together to volunteer to do some work immediately -
if we got permission, to translate and have a Nepali-language
dubbed (not subtitled) version of State of Fear available for the
Nepali audience. We believe that such a production would be
earthshaking here in Nepal, by opening eyes, and making people
understand the cul-de-sac that we have entered through the eyes of
Peruvian society, across the hemispheres...to take advantage of your superb
film to help in the process of bringing peace in Nepal by helping the
audiences across the country understand the nature of conflict and
how it was tackled in faraway Peru.
Let me on behalf of all of us at Film South Asia/Barrel of the Gun thank you for allowing us to screen
State of Fear in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, 4 October 2005.
Sincerely,kanak mani dixit
Chair, FSA
Editor, Himal Southasian

Posted by Paco on Oct 04, 2005 - 06:13 PM 

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