THURSDAY, MAY 3 - 7:00 P.M.

The Vistas Film Festival presents a special screening of THE SHORT LIFE OF JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ, an incredible documentary that won the
2007 Fox Azteca Borders on Film Award at the San Diego Latino Film Festival.

José Antonio Gutierrez was one of the 300,000 soldiers sent by the US Army to war in Iraq. A few hours after the war began, his picture was broadcast all over the world: he was the first American soldier to be killed in the war. He was there as a so-called ‘green-card soldier’ — one of approximately 32,000, fighting in the ranks of the US Army for a foreign country. The film tells the moving and nearly unbelievable story of a one-time street kid from Guatemala, who headed north along the Pan-American Highway — full of hopes and desires for a better future — ultimately to die an American hero far from home.

ANGELIKA FILM CENTER AT MOCKINGBIRD STATION
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