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Norita | A Conversation with Producer Sarah Schoellkopf

Norita | A Conversation with Producer Sarah Schoellkopf

Update: 2025-10-30
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In this episode, I talk with producer Sarah Schoellkopf about Norita, a moving documentary about Argentine human rights icon Nora “Norita” Cortiñas, one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

Sarah shares how her decades-long friendship with Norita inspired the project, how animation gave visual form to memory, and why the film serves as a manual for activism today.

Learn more at noritafilm.com

Read the full transcript here.

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Chapters:00:00 – Introduction00:53 – Meeting Nora Cortiñas05:27 – Documentary Teaching06:10 – Using Animation to Tell History11:11 – Speaking About Trauma in One’s Own Language12:43 – Balancing the Personal and Political17:08 – Norita as a Manual for Activism29:30 – Collaboration Across Continents33:00 – Where to Watch Norita33:30 – Closing Remarks

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Norita | A Conversation with Producer Sarah Schoellkopf

Norita | A Conversation with Producer Sarah Schoellkopf

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