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1983 Guatemalan film
When the Mountains Tremble
Directed by
Newton Thomas Sigel Pamela Yates[1]
Produced by
Peter Kinoy
Starring
Rigoberta Menchú Susan Sarandon
Cinematography
Newton Thomas Sigel
Edited by
Peter Kinoy
Music by
Rubén Blades
Production company
Skylight Pictures
Distributed by
Skylight Pictures
Release date
1983 (1983)
Running time
83 minutes
Country
Guatemala
When The Mountains Tremble is a 1983 documentary film produced by Skylight Pictures about the war between the Guatemalan Military and the Mayan Indigenous population of Guatemala.[2][3]
Footage from this film was used as forensic evidence in the Guatemalan court for crimes against humanity, in the genocide case against Efraín Ríos Montt.[4][5]
The film centers on the experiences of Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a Quiché indigenous woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, nine years after the film came out.[6]When The Mountains Tremble won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film Festival, and the Grand Coral Award/Best North American Documentary at the Havana Film Festival.[7][8]
A follow-up film was released in 2011, titled Granito: How to Nail a Dictator.[4]
^"Pamela Yates's 'Granito' Revisits Guatemala". The New York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
^"When the Mountains Tremble". The New York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2014.[dead link]
^"Iteractive public archive of the Guatemalan genocide - Granito: Cada Memoria Cuenta". Granitomem.com. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
^ ab"Description: Granito: How to Nail a Dictator". PBS. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
^"Granito: How to Nail a Dictator": New Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemalan". Democracynow.org. September 15, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
^The Official Site of the Nobel Prize
^Human Rights Film Focus
^"When the mountains tremble". Festival-droitsdelhomme.org. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
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