CENTRAL AMERICAN GUERRILLA CINEMA

Abstract

The Argentine film critic, Guadi Calvo, describes in this presentation the important role played by the cinema during the Central American guerrilla movements operating in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua during the decades of the sixties, seventies and eighties in the past century. The origins of this cinematographic genre —Guerrilla Cinema— is situated by Calvo in 1954 during the Indochina war, and more precisely, in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, a battle in which the French Empire was submerged forever and which launched, moreover, Vietnamese cinematography.