A&S DEAI Documentary Film Festival
Collaboration. Celebration. Education. Action
September Tuesdays 4-7PM (ARTS Lab)
Food will be provided and Parking Accessible*
Sponsored by UNM’s DEI, LAII, SHRI and Chicano Studies
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This September 10 we present the films La Abeja y El Colapso (Spanish with English Subtitles)

Discussion and Q&A with the film Director and Producer (Nelson Varas-Diaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo), and Historian Joanna Camacho Escobar.

La Abeja: A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation This documentary follows a feminist group of women beekeepers living on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Twenty years have passed since the US Navy stopped using Vieques as a bombing range. Still, the locals continue to live through the legacy of a military that savagely displaced the population and affected the use of their land. Through an ethnographic approach, we accompany the women of the “Colmena Cimarrona” (Maroon Beehive) during one week of their work as they aim to revitalize the land via agriculture and beekeeping.

El Colapso: One hurricane, one study, thousands dead. On September 20, 2017 hurricane María hit the island of Puerto Rico with category four winds. The local government reported the number of dead at 64, while a Harvard University led study estimated 4645. This film tells the story of the research team that completed this historic study from the perspective of Dr. Domingo Marqués, the only team member to experience the hurricane firsthand. See how the local government reacted to the now famous study, and how a country that distrusts scientists prepares for the next catastrophic event.

*If you have a UNM parking pass, you can park in Parking Lot P after 3:45PM without any problems. If you do not have a parking pass, there are pay-to-park parking in Parking Lot P as well as the parking in the Central United Methodist Church right across the street.