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2020 14th Annual Human Rights Film Festival

It is with great pleasure to have these four films screening for this year's 14th Annual Human Rights Film Festival.
Unless specifed otherwise, all films will shown in the Arts & Computational Science (ACS) Auditorium 120 at UC Merced.
Film will start at 7pm and light refreshments provided.
A short discussion to follow after each film.
 
These events are free and open to the public. For information about this year's HRFF and  free campus parking for this event, contact arts@ucmerced.edu
 
Sponsors for the 2020 Human rights film festival: UCM Center for the Humanities; School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts, UC Merced Arts and Social Justice Initiatives & Identity Programs

Bio:

John Jota Leaños is a Mestizo (Chicano/Chumash) interdisciplinary artist, documentary animator concerned with the embattled terrains of history and memory as they relate to nation, power and decolonization. A Guggenheim Fellow of Film and Media, Creative Capital Artist and United States Artist (USArtist) Fellow, Leaños’s practice includes a range of media arts, documentary animation, video, public art, installation and performance introducing alternative perspectives into the public imagination through strategic revealing, social documentation, and symbolic intervention. Leaños’ animation work has been shown internationally at over 80 film festivals and museums including the Sundance Film Festival; Cannes Film Festival, France; PBS.org; Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, and the Morelia International Film Festival, México. His installation and performance work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others. Leaños’ animated films have won Best Animation at the 2014 39th Annual American Indian Film Festival, 2014 XicanIndie Film Festival, Denver, Best Animation, Arizona International Film Festival and VideoFest, San Francisco. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Department of Film and Digital Media.