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| Discovering
Dominga |
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| Directed
By: |
Patricia
Flynn with Mary Jo McConahay |
| Produced
In: |
USA,
2004 |
| Running
Time: |
60
minutes |
| Genre: |
Documentary |
| Language: |
English |
| Themes: |
Genocide/Ethnic Conflict, Guatemala |
| Distributor: |
Berkeley
Media |
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Synopsis:
When
29-year-old Iowa housewife Denese Becker decides to return to the Guatemalan
village where she was born, she begins a journey towards finding her roots,
but one filled with harrowing revelations. Denese, born Dominga, was nine
when she became her family's sole survivor of a massacre of Maya peasants.
Two years later, she was adopted by an American family. In "Discovering
Dominga," Denese's journey home is both a voyage of self-discovery and
a political awakening, bearing searing testimony to a hemispheric tragedy
and a shameful political crime. |
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