Institut Ramon LLull

Investigative documentary filmmaker Montserrat Armengou, lecture at Yale

Yale University, 27/03/2019

Montserrat Armengou Martin, Yale Poynter Fellow, will frame this topic by discussing the impunity of the crimes against humanity committed by the Falange of General Franco. Margherita Tortora, senior lector II of Spanish, will moderate the discussion.




MONTSERRAT ARMENGOU MARTÍN (Barcelona, 1963), journalist and filmmaker from Televisió de Catalunya (TV3, Barcelona). Currently director of “Sense Ficció” a weekly prime time program of documentaries. Author of research documentaries about Franco’s dictatorship repression as “Franco’s forgotten children”, “The Spanish Holocaust” or “The institutions of fear”, awarded with Grand Prix FIGRA, Memorimage, Montecarlo, New York Film Festival, IFTA, Liberpress-Radio France Internationale, etc. Its documentaries have come to the United Nations (Rapporteur for the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and guarantees of non-repetition and Working Group on Enforced Disappearances). Visiting professor at NYU (2017) King Juan Carlos I Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization.

CLAIS Lunchtime Colloquia Series presents “Documentaries, Victims, and Reparation: Investigative Journalism as a Tool for Recovering Historical Memory.” Montserrat Armengou

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), 208

53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

Sponsored by The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies

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