According to Gorham “Hap” Kindem and Marcela Fernandez Violante, cinema in the third world is not monolithic but multifaceted in its social and artistic content, yielding cultural as well as political insights for first-world filmgoers.
At the time of this interview, Kindem was a professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fernandez Violante was director of the School of Cinema at the National University of Mexico.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
