And the 2010 duPont-Columbia University Awards go to…

Filmmakers Elizabeth Farnsworth (at podium) and Patricio Lanfranco (left) accept the 2010 duPont-Columbia University Award. Also on stage include: Gwen Ifill, host of the ceremony; Rob Weiss, Blair Gershkow, and Andreas Cediel, members of the production team.

Last night, the 2010 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards were presented. Among the winners of this prestigious broadcast journalism award was the ITVS film The Judge and the General, by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco, which aired on P.O.V. on PBS.

The Judge and the General reveals the transformation of Judge Juan Guzmán in Chile as he is assigned by judicial lottery to investigate the first criminal cases filed against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. An international detective story, the film follows the judge as he uncovers the truth about the regime he had supported.

Other winners honored last night include:

- American Public Media, American RadioWorks, Michael Montgomery & Joshua E. S. Phillips: What Killed Sergeant Gray
- CBS News & Katie Couric: The Sarah Palin Interviews
- CBS News: CBS Reports: Children of the Recession
- HBO & Edet Belzberg: The Recruiter
- KHOU-TV, Houston & Mark Greenblatt: Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard
- KMGH-TV, Denver & Tony Kovaleski: 33 Minutes to 34 Right
- MediaStorm & Jonathan Torgovnik: Intended Consequences
- NPR, Michele Norris & Steve Inskeep: The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote
- WCAX-TV, Burlington & Kristin Carlson: Foreigners on the Farm
- WGBH, Boston, Frontline/World, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Dan Edge: Pakistan: Children of the Taliban, on PBS
- WSVN-TV, Miami, Carmel Cafiero & Anthony Pineda: Pill Mills
- WTVF-TV, Nashville & Phil Williams: General Sessions Court
- WWL-TV, New Orleans: NOAH Housing Program Investigation

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Tags: Chile, duPont Columbia, P.O.V., Pinochet

ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: Villa Grimaldi on Global Voices on PBS World

A powerful, intense and imaginative musical journey, ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: Villa Grimaldi follows exiled Chilean musician, Quique Cruz, from the Bay Area to Chile and back, as he creates his masterwork: a multimedia installation to heal his wounds inflicted by state-sponsored torture of the Pinochet regime.

Read the exclusive interview with filmmaker Quique Cruz on Beyond the Box >>

ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: Villa Grimaldi airs Sunday, October 11 at 10:00 PM on Global Voices on PBS WORLD (check local listings).

Tags: Chile, music, Pinochet

Filmmaker Profile: Quique Cruz, ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: Villa Grimaldi

ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: Villa Grimaldi airs on October 11 at 10:00 PM on Global Voices on PBS WORLD (check local listings). The film follows exiled Chilean musician Quique Cruz from the Bay Area to Chile and back as he creates his master work––a multimedia art piece to heal his wounds inflicted by state-sponsored torture of the Pinochet regime. Beyond the Box recently caught up with Cruz to discuss the film and its international success.

ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY has had showings throughout the world, especially in South America. The film has evolved into an installation, a musical suite and a cleansing process for those involved in its production. But that wasn’t the plan originally.

Cruz’s original idea was to make a documentary film about folk musician Victor Jara, but Jara’s widow was not ready to release his information. At the time of fundraising, around 2005, Cruz had the opportunity to go to Chile for research, so he decided to document his own process.

Around that time he met Marilyn Mulford through La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, California. Mulford, a seasoned filmmaker, immediately became absorbed in the project and suggested switching the focus of the film to Cruz’s experience. After much trepidation, Cruz embraced the idea and so the concept of ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY was born. Cruz adds that Mulford’s involvement brought the film to the next level. Thanks to her work, the film was funded through the ITVS Open Call initiative in 2006 and was completed in 2008.

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Tags: Chile, music, Pinochet