Screening of Reportero and Q&A with director Bernardo Ruiz

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Buchanan Hall, Meese Conference Room

Latin American Studies joins the Film & Media Studies Visiting Filmmakers Series in bringing the film Reportero and director Bernardo Ruiz to George Mason University on April 10, 2013 at 6:00pm in Mason Hall, Meese Room. 

 

FILM SYNOPSIS

Reportero follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for the media. In Mexico, more than 40 journalists have been slain or have vanished since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderón came to power and launched a government offensive against the country’s powerful drug cartels and organized crime groups. As the drug war intensifies and the risks to journalists become greater, will the free press be silenced?

 

BERNARDO RUIZ

 

Director/Producer

Bernardo Ruiz is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico. He is the director/producer of American Experience: Roberto Clemente (PBS, 2008), winner of the ALMA Award for Outstanding Made for Television Documentary. He is the co-producer of The Sixth Section(P.O.V.), winner of the top short documentary prize at the 2003 Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico. As a director/producer for hire he has directed programs for PBS, MTV, the Discovery Networks, Travel Channel, Planet Green and the National Geographic Channel. In 2007, he founded Quiet Pictures in order to produce aesthetically innovative and socially relevant documentary films for all platforms.

Hosted by Film and Media Studies.

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