Hey folks! There are two media/journalism events happening at Carnegie Mellon University this week that may be of interest to folks at Greater Allegheny
Alive You Took Them
Graphic Narratives on Mexico’s Disappeared
The CAS Speakers Series Presents: Andalusia Knoll-Soloff
Monday, April 2 // Gregg Hall (Porter 100) // 4:30-6:30 PM
On September 26, 2014, police kidnapped 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college in southern Mexico. To date, their parents still search for them, proclaiming, “alive you took them, alive we want them.” For the past three years Andalusia Knoll Soloff, along with a Mexican collective of artists and researchers have been working on a graphic novel that uses first-hand accounts to tell the story of these parents’ tireless search to find the Ayotzinapa students and challenge government impunity. Andalusia will speak about comics journalism and the challenges of illustrating such a heart-wrenching story where reality surpasses fiction.
Andalusia Knoll-Soloff is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Mexico City. She is a frequent contributor to VICE News, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now! and TRT World. Her work focuses on gender violence, human rights violations and land struggles in Latin America. She has reported on the Ayotzinapa case for over three years.
Knoll-Soloff is part of a collective behind Alive You Took Them: Searching for the Ayotzinapa 43, a bilingual Spanish/English graphic novel about a parents’ tireless search to find their sons, who were forcibly disappeared by the Mexican government. Through first-hand accounts it tells a story of human resilience and serves as a graphic bet against impunity.
Co-Sponsored by:
- The CMU Department of Modern Languages
- The CMU Global Studies Program
- The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Pitt
RISK (documentary film screening)
Wednesday, April 4 // McConomy Auditorium, CMU // 7:00 pm
Directed by Laura Poitras | USA | 2016 | 86 min
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- PITTSBURGH PREMIERE!
- BUY TICKETS HERE! Tickets for college students are only $5
- This screening is part of Carnegie Mellon’s International Film Festival
EVENT INCLUDES:
- Discussion moderated by Andalusia Knoll-Soloff, a freelance multimedia journalist
- Co-sponsored by CMU’s Center for the Arts in Society
ABOUT THE FILM
“A poignant, touching, cool, updated, and totally engrossing view into the man behind the headlines.”
– E. Nina Rothe, Huffpost
Laura Poitras, the Academy Award winning direcotr of Citizenfour (2014), returns with her most personal and intimate film yet. Filmed over six years, Risk is a complex character stduy of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In a new world order where a single keystroke can alter history, Poitras delves into questions of equal access to information, privacy, and how to represent such a controversial figure. Poitras is granted unprecedented access, where she finds herself caught between the motives and actions of Assange and his inner circle.