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Bono and Javier Bardem endorse Blood Rising film about Juarez femicides

Thursday, October 9, 2014 8:42

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“Blood Rising”

(Film about femicides endorsed by mega star rock band Bono & Academy Award winning actor Javier Bardem; free showing at the University of Texas at El Paso,the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center El Paso, Texas, followed by panel; 6 p.m. Oct. 14)

FEMICIDE SYMPOSIUMS IN TOP US UNIVERSITIES

Press Release – Oct. 3, 2014

Beginning Sept. 29 in Harvard and ending Oct. 29 in UCLA, Blood Rising director, Mark Mc Loughlin and head of the victims group Marisela Ortiz Rivera, will host a series of symposiums in top US Universities as the first step in a major inernational human rights campaign to bring more attention to the issue of femicides in Mexico.

This campaign has been endorsed by rock music band Bono and actor Javier Bardem, winner of the Academy Award.

“The mothers of the femicide victims of Juarez, Mexico, have been abandoned by their government – they have engaged the artist Brian Maguire to bring their stories to the international community. Art has become the last weapon available to them to fight the drug cartels and serial killers. Only 2% of these murder cases have been investigated and many of the mothers have themselves received death threats for simply demanding justice.”

In 2010, 438 innocent women were murdered in Juarez. The mothers and families of the femicide victims of Juarez have bravely chosen to openly express their emotions through the work of the artist Brian Maguire as a last resort to find justice – for Brian it is a means of exploring how he can provide a voice for the mothers and a deeper understanding of their personal grief through his artworks.

Brian Maguire has spent three years working in Juarez. He spends time with the mothers of the victims gaining their trust and learning from their own experiences. From these meetings he paints a picture of the murdered person in his studio in El Paso, offering a deep sense of their spirit and personality and celebrating their life.

After a period of time he returns to the family or friends and presents the painting to them. He then paints a much larger work. These paintings are being used in a series of international exhibitions, the first of these was in the centre of the European Parliament in September 2012. The film was also screened in the European Parliament at the end of February 2014.

The narrative revolves around two central stories of Elia and her murdered daughter Erika and Bertha Alicia and her disappeared daughter Brenda, tracing the final hours of their lives in detail. From this central strand we move in and out of the emotionally fueled worlds of other mothers who have lost their daughters. Brian moves through these locations and maps the stories of the innocent young women who have lost their lives.

His journeys take him from studio to body dumps, to poor barrios, to the dangerous streets of the city centre, to other people who are inextricably connected to the story and back to the studio, always seeking a deeper meaning and understanding. It is also a very personal journey for Brian who has been entrusted by the mothers to produce art at a level which will speak in a provocative voice to the international community about the wanton destruction that has been visited upon their lives. Together they are fighting a battle for justice.

Blood Rising is a celebration of beauty through art and a revelation of the power of the human spirit to rise out of the most extreme and destructive situations. Its role is to honor the spirit and energy of the dead and to contextualize and understand the destruction of these lives and the mark it has left on the community.

The film and human rights campaign has been publicly endorsed by Bono and Javier Bardem.

It is also supported by Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, the Equal Rights Trust and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development.

The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women, the first investigative book about the Juarez murders by a U.S. journalist.

Source: http://dianawashingtonvaldez.blogspot.com/2014/10/bono-and-javier-bardem-endorse-blood.html

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