President Speaker Series: Barbara Martinez Jitner at CSUMB World Theater
- When: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 7 p.m.
- Where: CSUMB World Theater, Seaside
- Cost: Free
- Age limit: Not available
- Categories: Film, Lectures
Filmmaker and human rights activist Barbara Martinez Jitner, the first Latina to be nominated for both an Emmy and Golden Globe (for her work on prime time Latino drama American Family), went undercover into the world of the maquiladoras, American-owned factories along the U.S.-Mexico border, from which women who worked there were being murdered in staggering numbers in Juarez, Mexico. She documented the poverty, sexual abuse and killings in a film called The Border, which served as the inspiration for Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas' Bordertown. Bordertown is screened free 7pm Tuesday at World Theater, and Jitner speaks, in the first of CSUMB's President's Speaker series, 7pm Wednesday, on "Femicide at Our Border: To Be a Woman in Juarez is a Death Sentence." [WR]
7pm Tue film; 7pm Wed lecture presentation. World Theater, CSUMB, 6th Street, Seaside. Free (reservations recommended). 582-4580, www.csumb.edu.speakers.
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