PBS Premiere: September 27, 2012
Synopsis
Award-winning director Natalia Almada (Al Otro Lado, POV 2006; El General, POV 2010) returns with a beautiful and mesmerizing new film. From dusk to dawn, El Velador (The Night Watchman) accompanies Martin, a guard who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords. In the labyrinth of the cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us that, amid the turmoil of a drug war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives, ordinary existence persists in Mexico and quietly defies the dead. Official Selection, 2011 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. A co-production of Altamura Films, Latino Public Broadcasting and American Documentary | POV, with funding by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.
See El Velador (The Night Watchman) on its 2012 Museum Tour. Sept. 8: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Sept. 12: Cleveland Museum of Art; Sept. 14: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Sept. 26: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Sept. 28: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Oct. 19: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo.; Nov. 1-4: Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco.
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Film Information
El Velador (The Night Watchman) (60 min.)
Premiere Date: September 27, 2012
Streaming Dates: Expired
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Filmmaker: Natalia Almada Bio | Interview | Statement
Press: Press Release | Press Release - Spanish | Critical Acclaim
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