Local director's film 'Comparsa' to make its New York debut at Woodstock Film Festival

In 2017, 41 girls were burned alive and 15 others injured in a fire at a state-run “safe home" in San José Pinula, Guatemala. The girls were between the ages of 13 and 17. This is the backdrop of a new documentary highlighting a local community arts center in Peronia City, or Ciudad Peronia, Guatemala that's meant to provide a safe place for people to use art to express themselves. Doug Anderson and Vickie Curtis directed the film, “Comparsa,” which brings viewers through the fire and focuses on narrators who are putting together an event protesting gender violence. I spoke with Anderson ahead of the film’s New York Premier at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 16 and 18.  Anderson starts by setting the stage on how the film came to be.