As part of the European Union Center’s Spring 2004 film series, “Towards a Global Human Rights Regime: The Roles of the EU and the U.S.” Rojo Amanecer will be shown on Tuesday, March 2, at 7:00 p.m. Then, on Tuesday, March 30, at 7:00 p.m. The Drilling Fields will be screened. Both films will be shown in room 119 of the Bette Cree Edwards Humanities Building, located on the Scripps College campus.
Rojo Amanecer (1989), directed by Jorge Phons, reenacts the tragic Tlatelolco Massacre of October 2, 1968. The events are shown as seen through the eyes of a middle class family living in an apartment in Tlatelolco, Mexico.
Glen Ellis’s, The Drilling Fields, released in 1994, documents the relations between the Shell Petroleum Development Company and the Nigerian government. The film shows the exploitation of the local Ogoni people as the Nigerian government opens up the oil-rich Niger Delta for drilling by Shell Petroleum.
This film series is part of the Spring 2004 programming of the European Union Center of California, an intercollegiate institution housed on the Scripps College campus. All events are free and open to the public. Part of a network of EU Centers nationwide, the EU Center of California seeks to promote education, scholarly research, and public understanding of European integration and its consequences.