Discovering Dominga
GALLERY
ABOUT THE FILM
When 29-year-old Iowa housewife Denese Becker decides to return to the Guatemalan village where she was born, she begins a journey towards finding her roots, but one filled with harrowing revelations. Denese, born Dominga, was nine when she became her family’s sole survivor of a massacre of Maya peasants. Two years later, she was adopted by an American family. In Discovering Dominga, Denese’s journey home is both a voyage of self-discovery and a political awakening, bearing searing testimony to a hemispheric tragedy and a shameful political crime. This is a POV and LPB Co-Presentation.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
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EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
Artist
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