Rotary Club of Evanston Lighthouse / TALKING PICTURES
FILM FESTIVAL
Evanston, IL
14-17 April 2011 /
The Talking Pictures Festival, in conjunction with Percolator Films of Evanston, is returning to Northwestern University this year. Screenings will take place on April 14th – 17th at Block Cinema, Annie Mae Swift Hall, and at the Medill School of Journalism.You may view the complete schedule of film screenings at www.talkingpecturesfestival.org .
Regular tickets: $10
Seniors (over 65): $8 – not available online
‘5-PACK’ DISCOUNT CARD: $40 – available for purchase during the festival at all festival venues
The Rotary Club of Evanston Lighthouse is sponsoring one of the film screenings on Saturday. We invite you to represent our club and experience a powerful animated documentary about the impact of war and conflict on children in Colombia by attending the showing of Little Voices on Saturday, 16 April, at 3:00 p.m. at Annie Mae Swift Hall on NU’s Evanston campus.
Following the showing of Little Voices there will be a facilitated conversation about the film featuring Jesus Emilio Tuberquia of The Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado Colombia, a Nobel Prize nominated community experiment. Please contact Harvey Newcomb at (312) 504-6151 or with any questions. I hope to see you there!
Little Voices (2010). At this very moment in Colombia, there are around a million children who are victims of the armed conflicts that have been disrupting the country for years. Filmmaker Jairo Eduardo Carrillo met up with some of these children and let them tell their life stories. He also had them set their memories down in drawings - memories of both the periods before and after their confrontation with violence. Carrillo took these drawings as the basis for this animated documentary, which gives an impression of the abject misery that war subjects children to. They tell heartrending tales: of a carefree rural childhood suddenly cut short when a bomb tears off the limbs of a 10-year-old boy in a fraction of a second; or of a guerilla commander who tempts young boys with money and fine promises, only to take them deep in the jungle to train them against their will to become murderers. The use of language is simple and the drawings depict a childlike world that has nothing to do with political parties or ideologies, the reality that the children reveal is both moving and far from simplistic.