Guest filmmaker Christopher Moorewill screen “¿Puedo Hablar? / May I Speak,” the 2007 documentary he produced and co-directed about Hugo Chavez and his campaign for re-election in Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in F.W. Olin Auditorium.
His talk will be followed by a Q&A discussion, and photographs of his time in Venezuela will be on view in the Olin Rotunda 6-9 p.m.
After graduating from Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn., in 2006, Moore and two other graduates formed an independent documentary film company, Sol Productions. He spent two months in Venezuela filming “Puedo Hablar?,” following both candidates as they raced toward the Dec. 3 elections.
The film offers its audience a snapshot portrait of a Venezuelan society at a crossroads; a re-elected president, challenged by a mounting opposition; a country torn between two definitions of “democracy.” His team filmed in six regions of the country, from the notorious barrios of Caracas to the oil-rich Lake Maracaibo, traveling in everything from Chavista motocicletas to dug-out canoes to a private boat.
The trailer for the film is available at: http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=932890796
Over the last year, Moore also produced and directed “Democracy in Dakar,” which chronicles the role of hip-hop music in Senegalese politics.
Moore’s campus visit is sponsored by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program and the departments of Visual Arts, History and Political Science. Lorraine Morales Cox, assistant professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, is also organizing a group of students interested in filmmaking to meet with Moore earlier in the day.