The City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park and Cultural Center is presenting a new PBS POV film: ''Nostalgia for the Light'' by Patricio Guzman. This event is being held on Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 3:00pm inside the Indian Temple Mound Museum Lazarus Education Center. It is free and open to the public. This event is in collaboration with the award winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org.pov).
Chile's high Atacama Desert is one of those rare places where the earth seems truly to touch the sky. Located 10,000 feet above sea level, the Atacama hardly qualifies in any big mountain contest. Yet the desert's remoteness and the extraordinary fact that it is the driest place on earth, with zero percent humidity, give it some of the clearest skies on the planet. Astronomers come from all over the globe to peer through the world's biggest telescopes to the very edge of time and space, hoping to discover the secrets of the cosmos. But the Atacama holds other secrets underfoot. Its dry soil has preserved layers of human remains, from pre-Columbian mummies to the bones of 19th-century explorers to the corpses of political prisoners "disappeared" by the Chilean army under General Augusto Pinochet after the military coup of September 1973.
''Nostalgia for the Light'' is an Icarus Films release. It is a co-production of Atacama
Productions S.A.R.L. (France), Blinker Filmproduktion GmbH and WDR (Germany) Cronomedia Ltda. (Chile). The film is a co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.
This event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV
(www.pbs.org/pov). The runtime is 86 minutes and the documentary is in Spanish with English subtitles.
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 300 films to public television audiences across the country. P
