{"id":23745,"date":"2016-01-01T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=23745"},"modified":"2016-05-10T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:15:55","slug":"nwws-documentary-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/nwws-documentary-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"NWWS documentary premiere \u201cSad Happiness: Cinthya\u2019s Transborder Journey\u201d with director Lynn Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sad-Happiness-DVD-front-cover\"<\/a>Browsing Room
\nKnight Library
\n1501 Kincaid St.
\nEugene, OR\u00a0 97403
\nUO campus<\/p>\n

Opening event of the 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Documentary Film Premiere:\u201cSad Happiness: Cinthya\u2019s Transborder Journey,\u201d followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library.<\/h4>\n

Directed by Lynn Stephen<\/a>, Distinguished Professor College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies) and codirector of the Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS). Produced by Sonia De La Cruz and Lynn Stephen.<\/p>\n

Sad Happiness: Cinthya\u2019s Transborder Journey<\/em> explores the differential rights that U.S. citizen children and their undocumented parents have through the story of one extended Zapotec family. Shot in Oregon and Oaxaca, Mexico, and narrated by 11-year old Cinthya, the film follows Cinthya\u2019s trip to her parent\u2019s home community of Teotitl\u00e1n del Valle with her godmother, anthropologist Lynn Stephen. There she meets her extended family and discovers her indigenous Zapotec and Mexican roots. While in Oaxaca, she participates in her community\u2019s annual celebration of their patron saint, learns how to make chocolate and spin wool, explores a Zapotec archaeological site, and shares in a family party where she dances with her great-grandmother. Her absent parents are omnipresent on the trip as Cinthya\u2019s cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents all talk to her about them and how they wish for their return. Cinthya\u2019s happiness is modified by the sadness of her parents being unable to accompany her. At a larger level, Cinthya\u2019s story illuminates the desires and struggles of the millions of families divided between the U.S. and other countries where children are mobile citizens and parents cannot leave. In English, Spanish, and Zapotec with English subtitles. TRT: 39 minutes. The development of this documentary was supported in part by a Faculty Research Grant from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hosted by the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon in cooperation with Eugene Pubic Library, this symposium is generously cosponsored by\u00a0Oregon Humanities Center\u2019s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities; UO Libraries; Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies; Department of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies; Department of English; School of Journalism and Communication; School of Music and Dance; and the University Health Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. Eugene, OR\u00a0 97403 UO campus Opening event of the 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium Documentary Film Premiere:\u201cSad Happiness: Cinthya\u2019s Transborder Journey,\u201d followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library. Directed…<\/p>\n

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