Department of Anthropology
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 9:00am
Annenberg School, room 500
Film Screening:
"Brother Towns, Pueblos Hermanos"
Thursday, November 10th @ 2pm
There will be a post-screening discussion with the documentary filmmaker, Charlie Thompson, immediately following the film. Thompson is a cultural anthropologist based at Duke University.
For more information about the film, go to http://brothertowns.com
Here is some information about the film:
"Brother Towns is a story of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town where many Jacaltecos have settled in Florida.
Brother Towns chronicles a story of how and why people migrate across borders, how people make and remake their communities when they travel thousands of miles from home, and how people maintain families despite their travel. Because we are all immigrants, this is a universal human story, and a quintessential American one. All of us understand family.
Brother Towns is also a story of local and international controversy. News of undocumented immigrants is familiar in nearly every community across the U.S., and citizens must choose how they respond to this issue."
Bio: Charles Thompson, director of the undergraduate program at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, holds the faculty position of Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in religion and culture from UNC-Chapel Hill, with concentrations in cultural studies and Latin American studies. His particular interests in documentary work include oral history, ethnography, filmmaking, and community activism. A former farmer, he remains immersed in agricultural issues and works on issues affecting laborers within our food system. He has written about farm workers, and he is an advisory board member of Student Action with Farmworkers. He is the author or editor of five books; his latest is Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World. He is also editor, with Melinda Wiggins, of The Human Cost of Food: Farmworker Lives, Labor, a
nd Advocacy. Thompson is also the producer/director of three documentary films, including this latest film, Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, as well as The Guestworker and We Shall Not Be Moved.
"Brother Towns, Pueblos Hermanos"
Thursday, November 10th @ 2pm
There will be a post-screening discussion with the documentary filmmaker, Charlie Thompson, immediately following the film. Thompson is a cultural anthropologist based at Duke University.
For more information about the film, go to http://brothertowns.com
Here is some information about the film:
"Brother Towns is a story of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town where many Jacaltecos have settled in Florida.
Brother Towns chronicles a story of how and why people migrate across borders, how people make and remake their communities when they travel thousands of miles from home, and how people maintain families despite their travel. Because we are all immigrants, this is a universal human story, and a quintessential American one. All of us understand family.
Brother Towns is also a story of local and international controversy. News of undocumented immigrants is familiar in nearly every community across the U.S., and citizens must choose how they respond to this issue."
Bio: Charles Thompson, director of the undergraduate program at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, holds the faculty position of Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in religion and culture from UNC-Chapel Hill, with concentrations in cultural studies and Latin American studies. His particular interests in documentary work include oral history, ethnography, filmmaking, and community activism. A former farmer, he remains immersed in agricultural issues and works on issues affecting laborers within our food system. He has written about farm workers, and he is an advisory board member of Student Action with Farmworkers. He is the author or editor of five books; his latest is Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World. He is also editor, with Melinda Wiggins, of The Human Cost of Food: Farmworker Lives, Labor, a
nd Advocacy. Thompson is also the producer/director of three documentary films, including this latest film, Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, as well as The Guestworker and We Shall Not Be Moved.