OUR CATALOG
The Room of Bones (El Cuarto de los Huesos)
A film by Marcela Zamora Chamorro
Mexico/El Salvador | 2015 | 61 minutes | Color | DVD | Spanish | Subtitled | Order No. 161177
SYNOPSIS
PRESS
“The Room of Bones is a necessary work that provides testimony to the catastrophic legacies of violence that continue to plague El Salvador… This work makes the bold claim that, however harrowing, these images and these voices must form part of our public awareness.”
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- DocsBarcelona, Amnesty International Award and Special Mention from the Jury
- Margaret Mead Film Festival
- Ambulante Film Festival
- Costa Rica Film Festival
- Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
- Icaro Film Festival
- Panorama Brasil
- International Film Festival & Forum on Human Rights, Geneva
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Marcela studied Journalism in Costa Rica and then graduated as Documentary Filmmaker at the Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. For more than 12 years, she has been making documentaries focused on gender and human rights, in total 4 feature films and 10 short documentary films seen throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. She has worked in television for Al Jazeera and Tele Sur. She currently directs the documentary section of the Salvadorian digital newspaper El Faro. (10/15)