Mount Laurel
Library will show the documentary Biblioburro:
The Donkey Library describes Luis
Soriano’s efforts to bring books to poor children in Columbia by way of two donkeys on Friday, September 14 at 2 p.m. The public
is invited to this admission-free event.
No registration is required.
Carlos Rendón Zipagauta’s documentary, Biblioburro: The Donkey Library,
tells the story of 39-year-old Soriano and his traveling library from the point
of view of the man himself and, one might say, his two hardworking burros. The
film rides along with Soriano on one of his arduous weekend rounds and
discovers a world of dense tropical beauty, nearly impassible trails, dangers both
natural (snakes, swollen streams) and human (guerillas, bandits), open-air
classrooms and, most wonderfully, a thirst for reading and knowledge. But Biblioburro
is also a portrait of Soriano — an unassuming, small-town elementary school
teacher who not only had a great idea, but has been acting on it every weekend
for over a decade.
“I thought this would be a magnificent story to tell, for what it says
about human goodness and inventiveness and for what it reveals about the
dignity of the Colombian people, especially the poorest among them.” — Carlos Rendón Zipagauta, Filmmaker
This event
is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film
series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov (60 minutes).
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