Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Brooklyn: La Camioneta at reRun Gastropub Theater from May 31st.


La Camioneta 
A film by Mark Kendall
USA/Guatemala, 2012, 72 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles
One Week Exclusive Engagement
Opens Friday, May 31
reRun Gastropub Theater

147 Front Street, Brooklyn
Buy tickets in advance athttp://reruntheater.com/
Showtimes: Fri 5/31, Mon 6/3 - Thurs 6/6 nightly at 7:30pm and 9:45pm; Sat and Sun 6/1 & 6/2 at 2pm
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day.

Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs. LA CAMIONETA follows one such bus on its transformative journey: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live.

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