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Speakers: Cecilia Barrionuevo, Argentinian film curator and De Fortabat Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Juan Mandelbaum, Award-winning independent documentarian; Luis Moreno Ocampo, Deputy Prosecutor of Argentina’s trial of its military junta in 1985
Moderated by: Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School and Government Department
Join DRCLAS and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for the premiere of “Argentina, 1985” by Santiago Mitre (2022). The film follows the true story of young Argentine lawyers Luis Moreno Ocampo and Julio Strassera who dared to prosecute the leaders of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship in a monumental effort to bring justice to the victims. The film is directed and co-written by Santiago Mitre and co-produced by Amazon Studios, La Unión de los Ríos, Kenya Films and Infinity Hill. The film stars Peter Lanzani as Moreno Ocampo and Ricardo Darín as Strassera. It will be released in theaters on September 30, 2022, and available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video on October 21, 2022.
Following the screening, Luis Moreno Ocampo, one of the film’s protagonists, will participate in a panel discussion alongside documentarian Juan Mandelbaum and film producer Cecilia Barrionuevo. Harvard Kennedy School Professor Kathryn Sikkink will chair the panel.
Cecilia Barrionuevo is currently the De Fortabat Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She is the artistic director of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Mar del Plata, Argentina) for the last four editions and member of the festival’s programming team since 2010. She was the programmer for Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema at Film at Lincoln Center (New York City, USA) and the program advisor for Antofacine (Antofagasta, Chile). She was co-artistic curator of Documenta Madrid in 2020 and 2021 and has curated special programs for UNIONDOCS - Center for Documentary Art (United States), MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Museo Reina Sofía and La Casa Encendida (Spain) among others.
Juan Mandelbaum is an award-winning independent documentarian. Mandelbaum’s 2008 documentary, Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos, is his personal search for the people he knew who were disappeared by the Argentina’s military dictatorship in the 1970s. The film was funded by ITVS, the Sundance Institute, and Latino Public Broadcasting, and aired nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens. It also screened in many national and international festivals. Mandelbaum is President and Creative Director of GEOVISION, a Massachusetts multicultural communications agency. His work has been broadcast on a variety of venues, from American Playhouse to Sesame Street, and has won multiple awards, including Emmy awards and nominations, CINE Golden Eagles, Gabriel awards, a Chris award, and a Silver Apple award.
Juan Mandelbaum has kindly shared his documentary, “Our Disappeared”/“Nuestros desaparecidos" with the public ahead of this event. The film is Mandelbaum's personal search for the souls of friends and loved ones who were caught in the vise of the military and "disappeared" in his native Argentina during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Find this documentary here: https://vimeo.com/140972462
Luis Moreno Ocampo, one of the subjects of “Argentina, 1985,” served as the deputy prosecutor of Argentina’s trial of its military junta in 1985. The prosecution held two former Argentine presidents, two Admirals, and a Brigadier accountable for the crimes they committed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Moreno Ocampo served as the first prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from 2003-2012. His office conducted investigations in seven different countries and presented charges against several former national leaders, including former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi for crimes against humanity and former President of Sudan Omar Al Bashir for genocide in Darfur. He was also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Harvard University, and is now in private practice at a New York law firm.
Kathryn Sikkink is the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School and Government Department. She is an international relations scholar best known for her work on human rights, international norms, transnational advocacy networks, and transitional justice. Sikkink’s 2011 book, The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics, tracked the global rise in holding political leaders criminally accountability for human rights violations, beginning with Greece’s 1975 trials of its former military leaders, Portugal’s 1974 trials against members of its International and State Defense Police (PIDE), and Argentina’s 1985 trial of the juntas. The Justice Cascade won the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award and the WOLA/Duke University Award.
Presented in collaboration with The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School