On Friday 15 November my new Alborada Films documentary Mother, Country was screened at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle. For the live post-screening Q&A I was joined by my mother Cristina Godoy-Navarrete (via Zoom) and Francisco Carrasco (Luma Creations), who also performed some songs at the end. The Q&A was chaired by Ben Sellers (National Secretary, The People’s Assembly). The event was organised in association with Luma Creations.
I also spoke at the University of Newcastle earlier in the day, alongside Francisco Carrasco, at a workshop on memory, culture and exile organised by Vic Riveros Schober.
You can listen to the full Q&A above. You can see some photos taken of the event below.
Filmed over more than three years, this is how I've described Mother, Country:
"Pablo Navarrete's parents were forced to leave Chile after a military coup on 11 September 1973. They arrived in the UK as political refugees after spending time in the Pinochet dictatorship’s torture centres. They didn’t know it then, but Britain would be where they would settle, have a family, and still live, nearly 50 years later. Filmed over more than three years, Mother, Country is a deeply personal film that follows the director as he travels to Chile with his parents in 2020 to witness a people’s uprising and finally confront their past.”
I've written a short article about the film which you can read here. Watch a teaser for the film here. Click here to read a five-star review of the documentary on the film website DMovies.
Click here for information on upcoming screenings of Mother, Country
Credit: Martin Bennett
Credit: Pablo Navarrete
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