{"id":1551,"date":"2022-03-10T00:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2022-03-10T00:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:32:17","slug":"2022-spanport-film-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/2022\/03\/10\/2022-spanport-film-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking off the Spring 2022 SpanPort Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Christine Marsh &#8217;22<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This Monday, March 4th, marked the beginning of the Spring 2022 SpanPort film series. This semester&#8217;s series is titled &#8220;Concerning Violence&#8221;- a series that focuses on films about violence in the Latin American sphere.<\/p>\n<p>The first film of the series was <em>Sin Nombre<\/em>, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and tells a harrowing story about the struggles of Mexican immigrants trying to cross the border and the ongoing threats of gang violence.<\/p>\n<p>Many students from professor Quiroga and Sosa&#8217;s classes were in attendance, as these classes focus on issues surrounding immigration and the persisting problems in countries south of the US\/Mexican border.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/files\/2022\/03\/CF348025-BCC5-495B-9CDB-6327E86CDB00-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/files\/2022\/03\/CF348025-BCC5-495B-9CDB-6327E86CDB00-300x225.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>A view of Althouse 106, as professor Quiroga provides information on this semester&#8217;s theme: &#8220;Concerning Violence&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next film in the series is<em> In the Time of Butterflies<\/em>, a Dominican film about oppression and opposition during the Trujillo regime of the Dominican Republic. Each film will take place in Althouse 106 at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christine Marsh &#8217;22 This Monday, March 4th, marked the beginning of the Spring 2022 SpanPort film series. This semester&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4123,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85047],"tags":[113637],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-events","tag-spanish-film-series","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}