“Search for Identity” screened in the Gaylord auditorium Tuesday evening

The creator of the documentary “Search for Identity” spoke to students about the importance of an individual’s right to identity via Skype interview in the Gaylord auditorium Tuesday at 7 p.m.

“We can make a difference, but you don’t make a difference sitting on the sidelines,” Charlie Tuggle, the “Search for Identity” creator, said.

Gaylord College played Tuggle’s film Tuesday evening for students. The film emphasizes family and identity, focusing on the children who lost their families after being born and then kidnapped by military members in Argentina detention centers during the 1970 Dirty War.

Tuggle, who was once a journalism professor for the University of North Carolina, sent two journalism students to Argentina to report on the Grandmothers of May Plaza, aka the Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. The film centered on these women who spend their lives looking for their lost grandchildren with hopes of restoring their identity.

In the Skype interview, Tuggle explained his heart for the project and the thesis that drove the film.

“It’s the right to identity, a basic human right, let’s make sure we come back to that for our basic thesis,” Tuggle said.

Tuggle explained his aspiration for this film and shared his passion for an individual’s basic human right to identity.

For more information on the documentary or Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo you can visit www.searchforidentitydocumentary.com