''Children of Memory'' (''Niños de la Memoria'') is a documentary film produced by Kathryn Smith Pyle and Maria Teresa Rodriguez and directed by Maria Teresa Rodriguez. From 1980–1992 about 75,000 women, men and children died and disappeared during El Salvador’s civil war. It was known fact that most adults would be assassinated, but no one knows exactly what happened to the children. The film follows Pro-Busqueda investigator, Margarita Zamora, as she searches the countryside asking eyewitnesses to recall what they remember from war times. As Pyle and Rodriguez tell the personal account of Zamora’s search for her 4 siblings, so do they also tell the story of American Jaime Harvey, who was adopted from El Salvador in 1980, and Salvador Garcia, a farmer who continues the search for his daughter Cristabel. Their efforts to find their family members are challenged by the lack of access to Salvadoran military war archives.

Production

''Children of Memory – Niños de la Memoria'' was produced in association with

Independent Television Service ITVS (Independent Television Service) is a service in the United States which funds and presents documentaries on public television through distribution by PBS and American Public Television, new media projects on the Internet, and the weekly seri ...

(ITVS),

Latino Public Broadcasting Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) is a non-profit organization that is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with the purpose of addressing issues of cultural significance to the Latino population in the United States The Un ...

and Sundance Documentary Film Program. The documentary premiered in May 2012 in El Salvador at Festival Ambulante. The broadcast premiere was on June 30, 2013 as part of the Global Voices Series on the World Channel. The film is being distributed in North America by

Women Make Movies Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City. Founded by Ariel Dougherty and Sheila Paige with Dolores Bargowski, WMM was first a feminist production collective that emerged from city-wide Women's Li ...

Film festivals and awards

The film has received an Award of Merit from the

Latin American Studies Association The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest association for scholars of Latin American studies. Founded in 1966, it has over 12,000 members, 45 percent of whom reside outside the United States (36 percent in Latin America and the C ...

and a Cine Golden Eagle Award. Has shown at universities and noted festivals such as, the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Punta del Este International Film Festival, Latin American Studies Association Film Festival, and the San Francisco Latino Film Festival among many others.

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://www.ninosdelamemoria.com/
ITVS Site on the FilmReview from Educational Media Review Online
Documentary films about the Salvadoran Civil War Documentary films alleging war crimes 2012 films 2012 documentary films