Expanding the Documentary Form
Master Class with Natalia Almada

Documentarian Natalia Almada reveals rich new perspectives on Mexican history, politics, and culture in insightful and poetic films that push the boundaries of how the documentary form addresses social issues. Almada will show excerpts of her films to discuss how her relationship to her subjects informs her storytelling. 

Screening of El Velador (The Night Watchman)
a documentary by Natalia Almada

From dusk to dawn, El Velador accompanies Martin, a guard who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords. Set in the labyrinth of the cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us that even in the midst of a drug war, ordinary existence persists in Mexico, quietly defying the dead. Directed by Natalia Almada.(Mexico/USA, 2011, 72 min)

Followed by a Q&A with the Director

FREE Screening for FMA Students and Faculty 

Natalia Almada is the recipient of the 2009 Sundance Documentary Directing Award. Her films have screened at The Sundance Film Festival, MOMA, and The Whitney Biennial. Her three feature documentaries were all selected for broadcast on POV, the award-winning PBS television series. Almada received a Guggenheim in 2008, and is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.

TO ATTEND SCREENING OR WORKSHOP: RSVP rtajiri@temple.edu

Co-sponsored by Scribe Video Center and Haverford College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities