11 SEPTEMBER: El Pacto de Adriana

The Pinochet Dictatorship Forty Years Later and Implications for Australia

RMIT Radio Theatre, 11 September @ 18:00

This event, planned in commemoration of the military coup that took place on 11 September 1973, offers personal, artistic and legal perspectives an ongoing case around the case Adriana Rivas. Rivas was an active member of Augusto Pinochet’s secret police, and while under investigation in Chile, fled to Australia where she lived undercover for some years. Australia’s Chilean community began putting pressure on the government to extradite her to Chile. The case is ongoing.

The film that kicks off the event, Adriana’s Pact (2017), is a documentary about Rivas made by her niece, Lissette Orozco, who explores this case as a family matter.Adriana’s Pact has screened in a number of internationally renowned festivals and won many prizes. Apart from a screening in The Latin American Film Festival in Sydney, it has not been publicly shown in Australia. It will be the first time that Melbourne audiences can see this film.

We are in touch with the director, Lissette Orozco, who agreed to introduce her film on Skype.

There will be a panel discussion after the screening, who all have insights into this case from different angle points.

Pilar Aguilera	Chilean activist and representative of the NGO National Campaign for truth and justice
Adriana Navarro	Sydney-based attorney who legally represents the Chilean community in the case of extradition
Florencia Melgar	SBS investigative journalist. Florencia's exposé of the hidden life of Adriana Rivas was awarded the 2019 New York Gold Award for the Best Investigative Report
Claudia Sandberg	Filmmaker and specialist in Latin American film, School of Languages and Linguistics at Uni Melbourne

When: September 11, 2019

Where: RMIT Radio Theatre, Building 9, Level 1, Room 124Located on the corner of Franklin and Bowen streets, across from the City Baths, the building is easily reached from Swanston Street. Catch a City Loop train to Melbourne Central train station or to Flinders Street, from where you can take a connecting City Loop train or Yarra Tram along Swanston Street. Trams running along Swanston Street include routes 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 16, 64, 67 and 72.