On Wednesday 3 July the world premiere of my new Alborada Films documentary ‘Mother, Country’ took place at the Showroom cinema in Sheffield. Just under 80 people attended the screening and live Q&A where I was joined by my mother Cristina Godoy-Navarrete (who features in the film). The Q&A was chaired by Angela Martin, a former lecturer in film studies and production at Sheffield Hallam University and current member of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
You can listen to the audio of a brief introduction I did to the film above. You can see some photos taken of the screening and Q&A by Sheffield-based photographer Laure Divisia below. Click here to see photos taken by Peter Watt, host of the Alborada podcast 'The Americas Uncovered', and Sheffield-based filmmaker Sean Lovell.
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.
There is a second Sheffield screening of the film on Thursday 5 September and a number of other screenings in the UK - for more info click here. More screenings of the film in the UK and beyond will be announced shortly via the Alborada Films newsletter - subscribe here.
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Watch a teaser for the film here. Click here to read a five-star review of the documentary on the film website DMovies
All the below photos were taken by Sheffield-based photographer Laure Divisia.
Me (left), my mother Cristina Godoy-Navarrete (centre) and Angela Martin (right).
Audience member, Sheffield-based Chilean Pedro Fuentes contributes to the Q&A. Pedro features in the documentary ‘Chileans of the North’ showing at the Showroom cinema on 11 September.
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‘Mother, Country’ Screening and Live Q&A @ The Lescar (Sheffield, England), Thursday 5 September, 2024, 7pm to 9.15pm.
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