Juan Manuel Sepúlveda

Oppenheimer Park Film Program

Every Tuesday at 2pm, in the field house of the Oppenheimer Park, documentary and experimental films are screened, followed by a group conversation. The intention is to create a space where everyone can enjoy a beautiful and politically valuable film and share their experience in a critical way. We have had twelve screenings, and we expect to continue the program during the spring and the summer. I’m a filmmaker from Mexico now living in Vancouver and doing a Master in Fine Arts at Simon Fraser University. My films deal with events or situations that deeply affect me. I have been making documentaries since 2005, when I directed “Under the Ground” about the harsh working conditions of the miners of my hometown of Pachuca. I also made “The Infinite Border”, about Central American migrants who go through Mexico on their way to the USA, and “Lessons for a War”, about the resistance of the Ixil people in Guatemala against displacement. (…)