After sitting home and hiding out from the rain for several days I decided to stop being a bum and to use the footage from the 10th Annual Day Labor Cup to make something more upbeat and fully bilingual. I hope that the jornaleros, activists, organizers, students, and hopefully soccer fans find it meaningful. So far I have already been asked by a soccer documentarian if he can use some of my footage. I hope that means that the event will be mentioned in his film.
In other news today I had a meeting with an transnational feminist violence-prevention non-profit I work with about doing a series of activist filmmaking and theory workshops/classes in Guatemala this summer and making a few short films. Everything seems to be a go. I have already begun searching for and downloading academic articles in Spanish and choosing trusty English texts to be translated. Thinking beyond next semester sounds easy now but I know I'll be hating life when all my classes and projects and my job start up again a few weeks.
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