DRCLAS Film Series: Sand Dollars by Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas

Date: 

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 5:00pm to 6:00pm


For a recording of this event, please click here.

Speakers: Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas, filmmakers
Moderated by: Laura Pérez Muñoz & Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidates in Romance Languages and Literatures (Latinx & Spanish Track), Harvard University

A conversation with filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas on the film Sand Dollars (2014). The movie will be offered for free through streaming two days before the event to pre-registered participants.This event is part of the DRCLAS Film Series Are we there yet? A Film Series on Queer Futures curated by graduate students Laura Pérez Muñoz and Adri Rodríguez Ríos.

Husband and wife team Laura Amelia Guzmán (Dominican Republic, 1980) and Israel Cárdenas (Mexico, 1980) share photography, production, script and directing credits since their debut feature “Cochochi” (2007). Together they have shot seven features and run the production company Aurora Dominicana based in the Dominican Republic.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Laura Pérez Muñoz completed their BA in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and pursued her MFA in Writing at Pratt University in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, Laura is a 5th year doctoral student at RLL Spanish & Latinx Track. Their research focuses on the queer dictions of Puerto Rican literature and poetry, decolonial studies, Caribbean and Latin-American diaspora studies, immigration, border theory, feminism, performance, and visual narratives.

Adri Rodríguez Ríos is a PhD candidate in Latinx and Latin American histories, with a secondary field in Science and Technology Studies. They graduated from Southwestern Community College in San Diego, before transferring to the University of California Berkeley to complete their undergraduate studies in Anthropology and Latin American literature. Their current research project centers on queer and anti-colonial narratives across the US-Mexico border.