This is the first of two film screenings about Honduras with documentarian Jesse Freeston, a filmmaker and video-journalist based in Montréal, Québec. Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley is a film about farmers in the Aguan Valley of Honduras who have been resisting the takeover of their land by a wealthy businessman who wants to plant it with African palm oil trees. About 80 community leaders have been killed in the years-long confrontation with Facusse’s private guards.

Sponsored by OSU Center for Latin American Studies.