Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente)” at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium. The ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in “Embrace of the Serpent,” the third feature by Ciro Guerra. The 125-minute film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers, Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State, will lead the post-screening discussion. Co-sponsors are the College of Arts and Humanities, the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, the Department of Political Science and the Center for Creativity and the Arts. INFO: Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu or visit the CineCulture website. See original press release.
