PARQUE CENTRAL
dir. Ricardo S. Gaona, 2017
79 mins. United States/Guatemala.
In English, and Spanish with English subtitles.

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In the heart of Antigua, Guatemala, a humble park plays an international intersection as tourists stroll through the center of the centuries old town. Beneath the shade of trees, day in and out, indigenous children shine shoes, sell ice creams and trinkets while dodging the patrol of local police attempting to shut them down.

“The brisk, experiential and formidably well-shot documentary likewise mostly eschews words and overt angry sentiments for an immersively stitched-together day-in the-life of the tourist paradise’s most necessarily canny subsistence laborers.” - Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine

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