Moving Picture Series: Border Echoes - Ecos De Una Frontera By Lorena Mendez-Quiroga

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Moving Picture Series: Border Echoes - Ecos De Una Frontera By Lorena Mendez-Quiroga
Submitted by Craft and Folk ... on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 4:35pm
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Thursday | December 9 Moving Picture Series: Border Echoes - Ecos De Una Frontera By Lorena Mendez-Quiroga 7:00pm  (in the 3rd Floor Gallery) • FREE with museum admission   Learn more about the violence directed at women across ourborder with Mexico in this powerful documentary about Ciudad Juárez, a border city with one of the highest murder rates in the world.  Starting in 1997, journalist Lorena Mendez-Quirogabegan documenting the stories of families of slain girls and their battle against police incompetence, indifference, and corruption.To find out more about the film, visit www.borderechoes.com.   Please RSVP to (323) 937-4230 x50 or rsvp@cafam.org. Gallery opens at 6:30pm.  Seating is limited and will be on a first-come-first-served basis.