Radical Film Night: Who Shot My Brother?

description: Colombia Vive presents four nights of films at the Lucy Parsons Center to mark the bicentennial of Colombia's independence. Colombia Vive, created in 1988, works to inform people about the situation in Colombia, organizes opposition to U.S. military aid to Colombia, sponsors the visit of human rights defenders, religious workers, trade unionists, and grassroots activists to the Boston area, and supports humanitarian aid efforts in Colombia. We are an all-volunteer 501-c-3 nonprofit organization.

Who Shot My Brother?

Some phone calls can turn your life upside down. That's what happened to filmmaker German Gutierrez when he received a call from Colombia, informing him there had just been an assassination attempt on his older brother Oscar, a political activist hated by the establishment but adored by the disenfranchised. In this film, German Gutierrez, who has been living in Montreal for the past thirty years, recounts his quest to find the hired gunmen who tried to kill Oscar and expose the roots of violence that have taken hold of his native country.

This beautifully filmed political documentary takes a courageous look at what Colombia has become: a lawless, neo-liberal Far West run by a corrupt middle class; an Eldorado where oil is more precious than gold and where Americans are the puppet masters pulling the strings while drug traffickers, guerrillas and paramilitaries engage in all-out combat with each other as the war on drugs rages on.

web site: http://colombiavive.org/