The Cabrillo College Gallery sponsors the screening of AGAINST THE GRAIN: An Artist’s Survival Guide to Peru, released in 2007 by Los Angeles based filmmaker Ann Kaneko. The 65 minute film will be screened in the Erica Schilling Forum, Room 454, at the Cabrillo College, Aptos campus on Thursday, April 10th at 7:30 p.m. Ann Kaneko will be present to discuss her film after the screening. This event is free and open to the public. The Erica Schilling Forum is accessible to all.

AGAINST THE GRAIN chronicles the passion and commitment of pioneering artists who have resisted censorship to tell the violent and explosive history of Peru. The four featured artists struggle to express themselves under a repressive political regime. Their stirring artwork documents years of terrorism, corruption and the hard-line government of ex-president Alberto Fujimori. By recounting Peru’s past, they contribute to a larger collective memory of Latin America and connect the experiences of this country to our own. The film jumps to the present as artists face the uncertainties under heir newly-elected president Alan Garcia, a former president, who governed Peru during some of its darkest years, economically and politically.

Ann Kaneko is a filmmaker and artist committed to exploring and presenting the diverse experiences of people outside the mainstream. With the support of a Fulbright Fellowship she produced and filmed AGAINST THE GRAIN completing it in 2007. Kaneko also produced Overstay, a feature-length documentary about undocumented immigrant workers in Japan, funded in part by a grant from Hoso Bunka Foundation.

Ann Kaneko