HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH EVENT SERIES

Please join us for a public screening of Stepping Softly on the Earth which will be hosted by the film's writer, director and producer Marcos Colon with an introduction by Professor Thomas Noel of Villanova University.

About the film:

“Filmed on location in Peru, Colombia and Brazil, the documentary Stepping Softly on the Earth (2022) provides an answer for a possible future for humanity, with an alternative far from destruction and based on the ancestral life of native populations. The 73-minute film…focuses its narrative on three Indigenous leaders who are survivors of the capitalist war in the Amazon, and who struggle to keep their ways of being alive and coexisting in the world without destroying it.” -from “Amazonia Latitude”

About the filmmaker: 

Marcos Colón teaches Latin American Studies at Florida State University, holding a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese Cultural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2019). He specializes in Brazilian cultural studies, emphasizing depictions of the Amazon in modern Brazilian literature and film. Colón has directed documentaries like "Beyond Fordlândia” (2018), "Zo’é" (2021), and "Stepping Softly on the Earth" (2022). His research critically examines the Amazon's post-rubber era, challenging conventional tropical representations in literature and culture. He's also the founder and editor of the digital magazine, "Amazonia Latitude".

Reception to precede screening from 4:30-5:30pm in the lobby outside 107 Gladfelter Hall.