Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

Sundance Premiere Highlights Guatemala Human Rights Work

Archive Analyst Kate Doyle Featured in Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

New Film Showcases Spanish Genocide Case, Documents 20 Years of Struggle Against Impunity

January 28, 2011 - A new documentary film about human rights in Guatemala featuring National Security Archive senior analyst Kate Doyle will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, will be screened tonight at the Sundance Resort where Kate Doyle, Almudena Bernabeu of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), and film makers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís, will attend the screening and speak to the audience after the film.

GRANITO 10min from Skylight Pictures on Vimeo.

The film covers the unearthing of hidden government archives, exhumations of victims, and efforts to bring the perpetrators of human rights crimes to trial. The documentary showcases the fight against impunity and the struggle to establish rule of law after decades of civil conflict and genocide that left 200,000 civilians dead and tens of thousands more disappeared. {continued}