Awards & Honors

Cine Golden Eagle, Masters Award 2005
Imagen Foundation, Best Documentary 2004
Council on Foundations, Honoree 2004
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, Best Documentary 2003
Bermuda International Film Festival, Best Documentary 2003
Society for Visual Anthropology, Award of Commendation 2003
Latin American Studies Association, Honoree 2003
American Library Association, Honoree 2003

Festivals, Official Selection

Amnesty International Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
Directors Guild of America, Amnesty International Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival (Bellingham, WA)
Bermuda International Film Festival (Bermuda)
Bioneers Film Festival (San Rafael, CA)
Boston Latino Film Festival (Boston, MA)
Chicago Latino Film Festival (Chicago, IL)
Cine Acción Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)
Cine Las Americas (Austin, TX)
Council on Foundations Film and Video Festival (Toronto, Canada/Miami, FL)
Fairfax Film Festival (Fairfax, CA)
Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Havana, Cuba)
Film Arts Foundation True Stories (San Francisco, CA)
First Peoples Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Human Rights Film Festival, American University (Washington D.C.)
Icaro Festival of Central American Film (Guatemala City, Guatemala)
Imagen Foundation Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
Independent Festival of Digital Arts (Berkeley, CA)
International Human Rights Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
International Human Rights Film Festival (Santiago del Estero, Argentina)
Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
Ojai Film Festival (Ojai, CA)
Puerto Vallarta International Film Festival (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)
Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival (Colorado Springs, CO)
San Diego Latino Film Festival (San Diego, CA)
Sedona International Film Festival (Sedona, AZ)
St. John’s International Women’s Film and Video Festival (Newfoundland)
Syracuse International Film Festival (Syracuse, NY)
Taos Talking Pictures (Taos, NM)
United Nations Association Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)
United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival
Vermont International Film Festival (Burlington, VT)
Vista College Film Festival (Berkeley, CA)
Wine Country Film Festival (Sonoma, CA)

Special Screenings

American University with Guatemala Human Rights Commission (Washington D.C.)
Brecht Forum (New York, NY)
Commonwealth Club (San Francisco, CA)
Cornell University, Cinematic (Ithaca, NY)
Davis and Sacramento Peace and Justice Coalition (CA)
Dolby Laboratories with Global Fund for Women, Active Voice, and Amnesty International (San Francisco, CA)
Drake University (Des Moines, IA)
Excel Corporation Packing Plant (Ottumwa, IA)
Georgetown University with Guatemala Human Rights Commission (Washington D.C.)
Indian Hills Community College (Ottumwa, IA)
La Pena Cultural Center with the Guatemala News & Information Bureau (Berkeley, CA)
Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church (IA)
Mujeres Unidas (San Francisco, CA)
Municipal Hall (Rabinal, Guatemala)
Muscatine Community College (Muscatine, IA)
National Czech Museum (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Palace of the Legion of Honor, Courtly Maya Exhibit (San Francisco, CA)
Pickleweed Community Center (San Rafael, CA)
Rafael Film Center (San Rafael, CA)
Resource Center for Arts & Activism (Washington D.C.)
San Diego State University (San Diego, CA)
San Francisco Community School (San Francisco, CA)
San Francisco City College (San Francisco, CA)
San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
Santa Rosa Junior College (Santa Rosa, CA)
School of the Americas Watch Vigil (Columbus, GA)
Skyline College Museum of Tolerance Film Festival (San Bruno, CA)
Society for Visual Anthropology
Sonoma State University (Sonoma, CA)
St. Joseph the Worker Social Justice Committee (Berkeley, CA)
Stanford University, Traveling UN Film Festival (Palo Alto, CA)
Sustainable Petaluma Film Series (Petaluma, CA)
Tamalpais Retirement Community (Greenbrae, CA)
The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian (New York, NY)
The Yerba Buena Center (San Francisco, CA)
University of Iowa, Human Rights Center (Iowa City, IA)
University of Laramie with Amnesty International (WY)
University of San Francisco, Global Women’s Rights Conference (San Francisco, CA)
Vista College (Berkeley, CA)
University of California Santa Cruz, Women’s History Festival (Santa Cruz, CA)
Whitworth College (Spokane, WA)
World Affairs Council (San Francisco, CA)

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