On Tuesday, Feb. 28, El Norte, a film
by director Gregory Nava, will kick off a movie series on immigration. “El Norte”
will screen at 7 p.m. at the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (540 East Thach Avenue). Dr. Robert Leier, professor in the Auburn University College
of Education, will lead discussion.
El Norte, the first independent film to receive an Oscar nomination
for Best Original Screenplay, traces the journey of two Mayan youth who
flee Guatemala following a Guatemalan Army-led massacre in their village. The
journey is marked by danger, and sometimes humor, as the two make their way to
Los Angeles.
Leier, who will moderate El Norte, is
currently an assistant professor and program area coordinator for the graduate
degree and certificate programs in English for Speakers of Other Languages
Education, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, College of Education at
Auburn. In addition to its Oscar nomination, the film was selected for
preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The series, which is free and open to
all, will include screenings of seven other films, including Harvest of
Shame, Pueblos Hermanos and Morristown. Each screening will take place at
AUUF at 7 p.m. Designed to spark discussion of both film and issues of
immigration, the series was created by Dr. Kerri Muñoz and is sponsored by the
Auburn University Latin American Studies Center for Community Connections, the
College of Liberal Arts Global Citizenship Project, the departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English, and Political Science, as well as AUUF and the
Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the Collegeof Liberal Arts.
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