Synopsis:
El País de la Eterna Primavera (Land of the Eternal Spring), a documentary short, follows San Francisco-based photojournalist Jason Henry (New York Times, Vice, Wall Street Journal) as he treks to Guatemala’s most infamous landfill, Teculután. Against the backdrop of the Sierra de las Minas mountains, Jason tries to maintain his composure as he shoots children rampaging through the garbage searching for shreds of sustenance in a monstrous heap of human and animal waste and burning ash. Surrounded by swarming flies and accompanied by writer Erik Maza (Baltimore Sun,Town & Country), Jason observes, “This is their playground.”
Director Biography - Boaz Dvir
Award-winning filmmaker and Penn State Assistant Professor Boaz Dvir tells the stories of ordinary people who, under extraordinary circumstances, transform into trailblazers who change the world around them. They include an average inner-city schoolteacher who emerges as a disruptive innovator and a national model (Discovering Gloria); a World War II flight engineer who transforms into the leader of a secret operation to prevent a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer); an uneducated truck driver who becomes a highly effective child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); and a French banker who sets out to kill former Nazi officer Klaus Barbie and ends up playing a pivotal role in history’s most daring hostage-rescue operation (Cojot).