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[Audio] 2016's "Ixcanul" Playing this Weekend at MSU's Cinema International

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This weekend, Murray State's Cinema International features the 2016 film "Ixcanul."  (ish-cah-nuhl)  This 2016 Guatemalan film takes a classic story and sets it among that country's indigenous Mayan population.  It explores their culture and aspirations with breathtaking cinematography and a daring use of the native dialect.  Todd Hatton speaks with Cinema International Director Dr. Therese Saint Paul and Dr. Ben Post of MSU's Department of Global Languages and Theatre about "Ixcanul."

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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