‘Aquí y Allá’ shown April 22 at Appalachian

Posted April 16, 2015 at 5:23 p.m.

BOONE—The film “Aquí y Allá” will be shown April 22 at 6:30 p.m. in I.G. Greer Theater at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.

Part of the university’s Global Film Series, the film is co-sponsored by Belk Library and Information Commons and the Hispanic Student Association.

The film is about a Mexican immigrant who returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico, after years of working in the U.S. He struggles to rebuild his family and follow his dream of starting a band: the Copa Kings. The film won the International Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Prior to the film, Dr. Greg Reck from the Department of Anthropology will provide introductory comments about immigration and life in the U.S. and Mexico. Reck’s original fieldwork was in a small, rural community in the eastern Sierra Madre mountains of the state of Puebla, Mexico. He studied the impact of a shift from subsistence and local market food production to coffee production and its impact on land ownership and labor patterns. That research demonstrated how the intrusion of external capital negatively transformed the local economy, producing more and more landless laborers who were forced to immigrate from small communities.

For more information and a trailer of the film, visit http://guides.library.appstate.edu/globalfilmseries or contact Alex McAllister at mcallisterad@appstate.edu or 262-8472.

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