The
director of “Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and the Search for Identity”, spoke
to students at the University of Oklahoma on February 7th after a
screening of the film.
Students were given the opportunity to speak
with Charlie Tuggle, who happens to be the director, writer, producer and close
friend of the Dean of Gaylord, Joe Foote.
The film
focuses on “Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo”, an institution searching for missing
grandchildren in Argentina. During the Dirty war an estimated 30,000 adults
went missing and 500 of those were new mothers. Their children were given to
military families and some have not been seen since.
The biological grandmothers of
those children are known as Las Abuelas and have spent their lives searching
for their missing grandchildren. The president of Las Abuelas, Estela de
Carlotto, said the search for their grandchildren would never stop.
“The day there is not one single
grandmother, this institution is in the hands of the grandchildren.”
Tuggle spent 10 weeks total in
Argentina working on the film with his wife and two daughters. He hopes the
film will tell the story of the struggle with identity that the people of
Argentina have had to face.
Tuggle emphasized how important it
was to the Abuelas and their grandchildren to find their identities. “To have a knowledge of need for human right
is one thing, to have a passion for it is something else.”
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