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American premeire of a Spanish documentary to be shown at Messiah College

GRANTHAM, Pa. (Nov. 5, 2004) — The Messiah College Student Activities Board has extended its Lost Film Series to include the Spanish documentary “The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone,” which will be broadcast for the first time in the United States on Wednesday, Nov. 10, in Parmer Cinema, located in Boyer Hall on Messiah College’s Grantham campus. Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, the documentary will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles and show times are 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Admission costs $1.

A discussion will follow the 7 p.m. showing of the documentary at 9 p.m. in Boyer Hall, room 131, and will be led by Julian Gutierrez-Abilla, assistant professor of Spanish Peninsular Literature at Messiah College. Gutierrez-Abilla will also introduce the documentary before the 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. showings.

Written and Directed by Julio Medem, t he 2003 documentary explores the Basque Nationalist movement. The director “brilliantly grounds this study of a particular geographical landscape into a far-reaching contemplation of issues around identity and nationality, globalization and local cultures, human rights and the nation-state, language and power, presence and absence,” wrote Maria Delgado in a review of the documentary for “The Times” of London. The documentary was shown at the London Film Festival in May.

Messiah College , a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 50 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.

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Editor’s note: Professor Julian Gutierrez-Abilla is available for interviews about the documentary. Courtesy press passes to one of the Wednesday showings of the documentary are available.

ARTICLE DATE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004
ARTICLE NUMBER: MC-151-04

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