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Kenzo filmmaker Jamie Moffett’s Return to El Salvador premieres
posted by Molly Eichel
Exploring El Salvador and profiling select citizens 17 years after a bloody Civil War, Kensington filmmaker/Simple Way co-founder Jamie Moffett’s Return to El Salvador premieres tomorrow at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. Incorporated in the doc is the short film “The Mysterious Death of Marcelo Rivera,” about the death of teacher/anti-mining activist Gustavo Marcelo Rivera Moreno, whose family believes his murder was politically motivated. Isaiah Thompson wrote about Moreno’s death and Moffett’s film back in July:
The police, according to various accounts, seemed reluctant to investigate Rivera’s disappearance. So a group of his friends and family began scouring the countryside, looking for clues. They came across an abandoned shack in which they found some of Rivera’s clothes. Then, nearby, they found the well. A local fireman was recruited to descend and look for a body. He found one. Later DNA testing revealed it was Rivera’s. The cause of death was strangulation.
Forensics revealed that Rivera had also been tortured. His body, according to accounts from eyewitnesses, was bound in nylon cord. According to Claudia Rodriguez, who heads the D.C. office of Share El Salvador, a solidarity group which has a field office in the area, he was missing fingernails, his scalp had been cut off, and “he didn’t have a nose or mouth.”
“That’s not a common crime, that’s a death squad type of killing,” Rodriguez says
Return to El Salvador, 7 p.m., $10, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 West Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-1319.
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