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DF-12021/6 contains personally identifiable information and is CLOSED until 2048.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Catherine Murphy MAESTRA Collection #12021, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Catherine Murphy in November 2017 (Acc. 103177) and February 2022 (Acc. 20220204.2).

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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2018

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2018

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas and Nancy Kaiser, 2020; Jodi Berkowitz, March 2023

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• Cuba--Social life and customs--1959-
• Filmed interviews.
• Literacy programs--Cuba.
• Literacy--Cuba.
• Maestra (Motion picture)
• Murphy, Catherine (Filmmaker)

Catherine Murphy is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who has spent much of the last ten years working in Latin America. She is founder and director of The Literacy Project, a multi-media documentary project on adult literacy in the Americas. While in Caracas in 2009, Murphy founded Tres Musas Producciones, a collaborative production house of independent women producers working in film, music and literature. MAESTRA is her directing debut.

Adapted from the MAESTRA website.

The Catherine Murphy MAESTRA Collection Collection consists of the original videotaped interviews and the audio, video, and transcript working files that Catherine Murphy and others created to produce the 2012 documentary film about young women who participated as teachers in the Cuban literacy campaign of 1961. There are also interviews with Murphy and documentation about the project's archives. Most of the collection is available in digital form. The Addition of February 2022 consists primarily of flyers, promotional materials, and event programs documenting various screenings of MAESTRA, appearances by Catherine Murphy, and related events at various locations including college campuses and film festivals, 2011-2014. The addition also contains printed material emanating from and related to Fidel Castro's Cuban literacy campaign that the MAESTRA film documents; a small number of program registration documents, 1961; newsletters and pamphlets that are not related to MAESTRA; scattered letters and photocopied information about the status of Cuban women; and a medal awarded to those who particpated in the literacy campaign.

• Digital folders (DF-12021/1-6)
• Audio (DCD-12021/1-27)
• Video (VT-12021/1-75; DVD-12021/1-39)
• Museum item (MU-12021/1)