Middlebury alumna’s documentary chasing the truth in Chile

Middlebury alumna’s documentary chasing the truth in Chile: “When a former bishop was democratically elected president of Paraguay last month, it signaled the end of another ’southern-cone’ dictatorship in Latin America.

“Elizabeth Farnsworth, in her North Beach office, was exultant. ‘The priest won!’ she said of Fernando Lugo. Her roots in Latin American history run deep. On Sunday, her latest project, ‘The Judge and the General’ – a documentary about the man who tried Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – will premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

“For Farnsworth [a Middlebury alumna], best known as senior correspondent of PBS’ ‘NewsHour,’ the film is the culmination of more than two years’ hard work. She first met Judge Juan Guzmán in 2003 at a dinner party in the home of Bay Area philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, attended by a few local journalists and federal judges.”

See trailer for the documentary: http://links.sfgate.com/ZDFY