Justice For My Sister
GALLERY
ABOUT THE FILM
JUSTICE FOR MY SISTER follows one Guatemalan women during her three-year battle to hold her sister’s killer accountable. Adelan, 27, did not return home from work one day. She was brutally beaten by her ex-boyfriend and left to die. Her sister Rebeca takes on Guatemala’s notoriously corrupt legal system so seek justice. As a result of Rebeca’s persistence on her journey, she becomes transformed and emerges as a leader in her rural community and beyond. She shows others that justice is possible.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Kimberly Bautista (Producer/Director)
Kimberly is a Colombian-Irish-American filmmaker, a Princess Grace Award recipient, and previous resident of NALIP’s prestigious Artist Residence Center for filmmaker women of color. She is part of the Artist’s Network with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women. Her work has won Best Documentary in several film festivals, and broadcasted on Univision, TLC, and LATV. She is currently in pre-production of Latino Public Broadcasting-funded 6 webisodes The SweetSpot, which focuses on what it means to be in-between generations X and Y as an older millennial. Kimberly holds a Master’s in Social Documentation from University of California, Santa Cruz for film production.
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
Artist
Kimberly Bautista
Producer/Director
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