INVASIÓN
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WE WAITED UNTIL NIGHTFALL
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Invasion (Invasión), directed by Abner Benaim (Panama, 2014), and We Waited Until Nightfall (Esperábamos a que anocheciera), directed by Wendy Muniz and Guillermo Zouain and released in 2019, both screened on February 4, 2020. The first film is a historical documentary on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 that returns to those events through enactments of social memories. We Waited Unitl Nightfall is a short documentary on the memories of former film palaces in the Dominican Republic. The panel discussion was led by Ms. Muniz, who is also an Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, and Mr. Zouain, a director and producer who is from the Dominican Republic but is now based in New York.
Invasion (Invasión), directed by Abner Benaim (Panama, 2014), and We Waited Until Nightfall (Esperábamos a que anocheciera), directed by Wendy Muniz and Guillermo Zouain and released in 2019, both screened on February 4, 2020. The first film is a historical documentary on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 that returns to those events through enactments of social memories. We Waited Unitl Nightfall is a short documentary on the memories of former film palaces in the Dominican Republic. The panel discussion was led by Ms. Muniz, who is also an Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, and Mr. Zouain, a director and producer who is from the Dominican Republic but is now based in New York.
For further information on Invasion, click on the following links:
For further information on Abner Benaim, click on the following links:
WE WAITED UNTIL NIGHTFALL
by Wendy Muñiz and Guillermo Zouain
For further information on We Waited Until Nightfall, click on the following links:
List of festivals where it has appeared
The film won an award for best Iberoamerican short film at the 2019 New Orleans Film Festival.
Wendy Muñiz
Wendy Muñiz is a cultural scholar and filmmaker. Her research centers on unorthodox archival media and transnational epistemes in the Caribbean, with a focus on Dominican intellectual and visual cultures. In 2012, Muniz founded Viewfinder, a Santo Domingo based production company under which she produced and co-wrote Guillermo Zouain's ON THE ROAD, SOMEWHERE (MIFF 2015), produced Victoria Linares's STAY QUIET (BUSHWICK 2018), and José Rodríguez's ADOLESCENCE (DOK LEIPZIG 2017). Among her latest productions are BLACK HOLE by Diego Araujo (BAFICI 2018) and WHERE THINGS REMAIN (FICG 2018) by Daniela Silva, which she also co-wrote. Wendy’s research has appeared in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Her latest documentary, WE WAITED UNTIL NIGHTFALL, won a Grand Jury Price at the Centro León Biennale 2019.
Guillermo Zouain
Guillermo Zouain is a director, screenwriter and producer from Santiago, Dominican Republic. His debut feature film On the Road, Somewhere premiered in 2015 in the Ibero-American Ópera Prima Competition at the Miami International Film Festival and also competed for the Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award at MIFF. Guillermo’s works have been selected and awarded in various international film festivals including the San Diego Latino Film Festival, IFF Panamá, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Cine Las Americas Film Festival, Zanzibar International Film Festival and Zlín Film Festival, among others. Together with Wendy Muniz, he is working on the script Inland, which won the FONPROCINE Screenwriting Award by the National Film Commission in the Dominican Republic in January 2015. They are also working as producers for the documentary feature Tales of Penthouse (2017), which won the Latin-Pitch Award at DocsBarcelona and Islab 2015.
Production Company founded by Guillermo Zouain and Wendy Muñiz
For further information on the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, click on the following links:
Book: The Invasion of Panama and the Rule of Law
Carl T. Bogus, The Invasion of Panama and the Rule of Law, The International Lawyer, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 1992), pp. 781-787,
Book: The War Powers Resolution & the Invasion of Panama
Eileen Burgin, Congress, the War Powers Resolution & the Invasion of Panama, Polity, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Winter, 1992), pp. 217-242.
Book: Gunboat democracy: US interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama
Russell Crandall, Gunboat democracy: US interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006) and Thomas Donnelly, Operation Just Cause: The Storming of Panama. Lexington Books (1991).
For further information on former film palaces in the Dominican Republic, click on the following links:
History of the Dominican Republic film industry
Article: “Dominican Republic Dreams of Becoming the Caribbean Hollywood”