10.10.2019 - 10.10.2019
Screening and Q&A: Mexican series 68 Voices, 68 Hearts
Europe and North America / / New York City
The Center for Fiction
Celebrate Mexico Now Festival has partnered with the Center
for Fiction for a screening and panel discussion on the
importance and challenges of translating indigenous
languages. The conversation will include the screening of 68
Voices, 68 Hearts, a series of animated short films that
retell Mexican indigenous stories in their native tongues.
This panel will feature filmmaker and creator of 68 Voices,
68 Hearts Gabriela Badillo; Américo Mendoza-Mori, Quechua
and Spanish professor at the University of Pennsylvania; and
Mirian Masaquiza, Social Affairs Officer at the Indigenous
Peoples and Development Branch of the UN’s Department of
Economic and Social Affairs.