Word: velez
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Last Saturday, Occupation, the documentary about the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) infamous 21-day sit-in in Mass. Hall, premiered at the Harvard Film Archive. Throngs of people lined up to see how directors Pacho Velez ’02 and Maple Razsa chose to capture one of the most momentous events in recent Harvard history. Overwhelmed with viewers, the Archive auditorium soon proved to be too small to contain the large turnout, so video versions of the film had to be played simultaneously in two other locations. Velez and Razsa addressed the audience before...
Directed by Maple Razsa, a doctoral candidate in social anthropology, and Roberto “Pacho” Velez ’03, a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator, the documentary is part of a series of films co-sponsored by the Harvard Trade Union Program...
Since then, donations of rejected food have enabled the children to eat in addition to their studies, but resources remain scarce in the orphanage and school, as Visual and Environmental Studies Teaching Fellow Randy Bell ’00 and Pacho Velez ’02 discovered when they spent six weeks there shooting a documentary about the home. According to the directors, they hope to show that AIDS is “not only a medical crisis but also a socio-cultural one that threatens to create a generation of children without parents...
...Bell and Velez expect to complete Good Samaritan in June 2002 and hope to show it on television and at film festivals worldwide. While they have raised $9,000 to date, $100,000 will be needed in order to cover post-production costs. Information about donations to the film and the home is available at www.goodsamaritanfilm.com...
...Sofia Velez...