Mother Tongue
Overview
"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil—5.5% of whom were killed during the armed conflict in the 1980s. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, an emerging Ixil leader and the translation project’s coordinator, "Mother Tongue" illuminates the Ixil community’s ongoing work to preserve collective memory.
Key Crew
Director of Photography: Sean Mattison, Javier Corleto
Producer: Paco de Onís
Director: Pamela Yates
Writer: Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, Paco de Onís
