On April 27, Cineculture presents 'The Suffragists' (Las Sufragistas) (2012).

Discussant: Ana Cruz Navarro (Director)

'The Suffragists,' by Mexican filmmaker Ana Cruz Navarro, tells the story of Eufrosina Cruz, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec community of Santa María Quiegolani in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2008, her right to vote and run as Municipal President of her community was denied on the grounds that indigenous customary laws prohibit women from participating in electoral processes. In Mexico, women won the right to full suffrage in 1953. Today, after a long battle, Eufrosina Cruz is a representative in Mexico’s federal government, and the first indigenous woman to be a member of the Congress of Oaxaca. The Suffragists details her political struggle, as well as Mexican women’s long fight for political power. The film also considers challenges which women in power face, drawing on interviews with Mexican female politicians and Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female president and the first Executive Director of UN Women. In Spanish with English subtitles, 78 minutes, Trailer: https://vimeo.com/220101466

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Sponsors: The College of Arts and Humanities, Aeromexico, the Spanish Program, the Department of Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures, and the Department of Chicano & Latin American Studies

Film screenings are Fridays at 5:30 p.m. in the Peters Education Center Auditorium (West of Save Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building). Exceptions will be noted.

All CineCulture films are free and open to the public.

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community. For further information about CineCulture: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/