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NOW! CINE LATINO EN EL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
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Un listado rápido de las realizaciones latinas presentes en el New York Film Festival que se realiza hasta el 11 de Octubre en el Lincoln Center.
Sin duda, Arabian Nights (Volumes 1,2,3) del realizador portugués Miguel Gomes ha acaparado la atención de la crítica y el público en el Main Slate del festival; otra a recomendar es My Golden Days del francés Arnaud Desplechin; y Mia Madre de la italiana Nanni Moretti.
En cortos encontramos a los siguientes realizadores latinos:
Programa 1:
*La novia de Frankenstein. Agostina Gálvez & Francisco Lezama, Argentina
* Marea de Tierra. Manuela Martelli & Amirah Tajdin, Chile/France
* The Mad Half Hour. Leonardo Brzezicki, Argentina/Denmark
Programa 2:
* Sânge. Percival Argüero Mendoza, Mexico
* Territory / Territoire. Vincent Paronnaud, France
Programa 4:
* Dragstrip. Pacho Velez & Daniel Claridge, USA
Programa 1:
* Neither God nor Santa María. Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón, Spain
* Entangled / Entrelazado. Riccardo Giacconi, Colombia/Italy
* Dragstrip. Pacho Velez & Daniel Claridge, USA
En la sección ahora llamada Projections, tenemos:
* Neither God nor Santa María. Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón, Spain
* Entangled / Entrelazado. Riccardo Giacconi, Colombia/Italy
Programa 3:
* Occidente. Ana Vaz, France/Portugal
* In Girum Imus Nocte. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Italy
* Occidente. Ana Vaz, France/Portugal
* In Girum Imus Nocte. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Italy
Programa 6:
* Minotaur. Nicolas Pereda, Mexico/Canada
* Vivir para Vivir / Live to Live. Laida Lertxundi, USA/Spain
* Minotaur. Nicolas Pereda, Mexico/Canada
* Vivir para Vivir / Live to Live. Laida Lertxundi, USA/Spain
Programa 7:
* Many Thousands Gone. Ephraim Asili, USA/Brazil
* Many Thousands Gone. Ephraim Asili, USA/Brazil
Programa 8:
* Isiah Medina, Canada
* Isiah Medina, Canada
Programa B:
* Noite Sem Distância. Lois Patiño, Portugal/Spain
Y documentaries:
* Immigration Battle / Reason to Believe. Michael Camerini, Shari Robertson, USA.
* We Are Alive. Carmen Castillo, Chile.
* Fish Tail (Rabo De Peixe). Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel, Portugal* Noite Sem Distância. Lois Patiño, Portugal/Spain
* Immigration Battle / Reason to Believe. Michael Camerini, Shari Robertson, USA.
* We Are Alive. Carmen Castillo, Chile.
Más info? > NYFF.
UNA BUENA CARTELERA LATINA EN EL DOCNYC FESTIVAL + HIGHLIGHTS
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Este año en particular, la presencia de temas latinos es fuerte en el festival DOC NYC. La chispa del emprendimiento prende en Costa Rica y en Sud América en contra del machismo, la lejanía, la falta de infraestructura y capital. No hay incentivo de progreso en muchos lugares de América Latina, pero en un rincón de Costa Rica, la directora Lesley Chilcott nos muestra cómo un grupo de mujeres triunfa, crece y genera cambio en A SMALL SECTION OF THE WORLD.
El papel de las mujeres en el desarrollo de América Latina cambiará el rostro del continente como también lo refleja Pamela Yates en otro de sus fantásticos trabajos documentales, DISRUPTION (foto) y las promesas del micro-crédito o la semilla del emprendimiento.
Otra cambio que se presenta en el festival es el climático. La periferia y la centralidad se nos revela en el corto SANTA CRUZ DEL ISLOTE de Luke Lorentzen. Vivir en un islote a 50 millas de Cartagena puede parecer paradisíaco, y a lo mejor lo es. Pero Santa Cruz está casi a nivel del mar y no se le ve que tiene muchas posibilidades de crecer. Países conformados por islas están en peligro de desaparecer bajo las aguas. Qué le espera a Santa Cruz? Tomarán ellos mismos cartas en el asunto?. Porque más allá de todo se impone esta inercia que cuelga sobre el islote, donde no se ve iniciativa, plan de futuro. Prenderá allí también la mecha del emprendimiento ?.
Banksy llegó a NYC y causó revuelo. Y en Banksy Does New York vemos su residencia de 30 días en la ciudad y las reaciones que causó: Qué es arte y qué significa ser artista; la política y el capital en el arte y la protesta a través del arte son todos temas que me vinieron a la cabeza viendo este doc sobre el controversial artista. Controversiales y efectivas son también las campañas y las protestas de The Yes Men Are Revolting. La creatividad y el riesgo tomado en sus 'antics' para poder dejarse oír en medio del bullicio generalizado han hecho imposible que organizaciones, intereses y gobiernos tiren bajo el tapete y se desentiendan de asuntos tan cruciales como el cambio climático. Más allá de las risas (que hay muchas) los Yes Men inspiran a buscar métodos nuevos y efectivos para hacer de la protesta un agente efectivo de cambio.
Estos son solo algunos de los temas que pude sopesar de los tantos presentes en el festival. Como pueden ver debajo, las entradas latinas exploran temas que van desde las pandillas en las calles de Nueva York en los '70 en RUBBLE KINGS hasta la icónica fotografía de Sebastian Salgado, pasando por la vida después de prisión en COMING HOME; la lucha por salarios y condiciones de trabajo justos en THE HAND THAT FEEDS; y la lucha por la vida misma en MARMATO, un pueblo minero de Colombia. Y mucho más para explorar en DOC NYC que se realiza en NYC hasta el 20 de Noviembre.
Estos son solo algunos de los temas que pude sopesar de los tantos presentes en el festival. Como pueden ver debajo, las entradas latinas exploran temas que van desde las pandillas en las calles de Nueva York en los '70 en RUBBLE KINGS hasta la icónica fotografía de Sebastian Salgado, pasando por la vida después de prisión en COMING HOME; la lucha por salarios y condiciones de trabajo justos en THE HAND THAT FEEDS; y la lucha por la vida misma en MARMATO, un pueblo minero de Colombia. Y mucho más para explorar en DOC NYC que se realiza en NYC hasta el 20 de Noviembre.
Acá los filmes de interés o director latino:
1_ COMING HOME, Dir. Viko Nikci
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE - At the age of 25, Angel Cordero, an innocent man, was arrested and convicted of attempted murder following a stabbing in the Bronx. Viko Nikci follows him as he is released from prison after thirteen years into a new world of smartphones and social media. Readjusting to life on the outside, Angel has two goals: confronting the man who actually committed the crime for which he was punished, and repairing his relationship with the daughter he was forced to leave behind.
7:00 PM, Sat. Nov. 15, 2014 - IFC Center
12:30 PM, Thu. Nov. 20, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Viko Nikci, film subject Angel Cordero
2_ DISRUPTION, Dir. Pamela Yates
NYC PREMIERE - Recognizing the persistence of income inequality in South America, a group of activist economists join together to offer an alternative path to eliminating poverty: encouraging the poor to open savings accounts and thereby become active agents within the existing economic system. Fundación Capital partners with impoverished women to put their plan for financial inclusion into action, beginning pilot programs in Colombia, Peru and Brazil, and demonstrating the power of women to lead potentially continent-wide social change.
2:30 PM, Sat. Nov. 15, 2014 - IFC Center
5:00 PM, Tue. Nov. 18, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Pamela Yates, producer Paco de Onis
3_ THE HAND THAT FEEDS, Dir. Rachel Lears & Robin Blotnick
NYC PREMIERE - An Upper East Side Hot & Crusty bakery serves as the unlikely setting for an old-fashioned David vs. Goliath story in Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick's rousing film. After years of exploitation, Mahoma López, an unassuming sandwich maker, leads his fellow service workers as they demand better working conditions and wages. Risking their livelihood—and, for some, deportation—they take to the streets to plead their case to their regular customers, partnering with impassioned young Occupy activists in a hard-fought battle to prove the power of labor organizing.
2:30 PM, Sun. Nov. 16, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears, film subjects Mahoma Lopez and family
4_ MARMATO, Dir. Mark Grieco
NYC PREMIERE - Exploring the intersection of economic development, environmental impact and globalization, Mark Grieco's film is an intimate and richly observed portrait of Marmato, a rural mining town threatened with destruction. At the center of a new global gold rush, the Colombian government has imperiled Marmato by selling its mines to a Canadian company. With plans in place to displace 8,000 inhabitants, level their mountain home and transform it into an open pit to extract the estimated $20 billion in gold buried within, can the community survive?
2:45 PM, Tue. Nov. 18, 2014 - IFC Center
5:15 PM, Wed. Nov. 19, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Mark Grieco
5_ RUBBLE KINGS, Dir. Shan Nicholson
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE - Confronting a bankrupt, decaying city and the dashed hopes of the civil rights generation, African-American and Latino teenagers violently took over the streets of 1970s New York. The South Bronx became a war zone ruled by gangs like the Savage Skulls and the Ghetto Brothers. Hypnotic archival footage and present-day interviews with former gang members reveal how peace was brokered at the peak of the bloodshed in a most unlikely manner, laying the foundation for what ultimately became hip-hop culture.
Screening with Fraser Munden & Neil Rathbone's THE CHAPERONE. An action-packed, animated retelling of what happened when a drunken motorcycle gang invaded a 1970s school dance.
9:15 PM, Sun. Nov. 16, 2014 - SVA Theatre
Expected to attend: Shan Nicholson, film subjects Benji Melendez, Lloyd Murphy, Jee Sanchez, Rolly Rodriguez and D.S.R.
6_ THE SALT OF THE EARTH, Dir. Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Brazilian Sebastião Salgado has created some of the most indelible photographs of our time. His black- and-white images bring an artful composition to chronicling humanity's "salt of the earth" in multiyear projects such as "Workers," "Migrations" and "Genesis." This film, directed by his son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders, brings an insider's and outsider's perspective on the family, illuminating the key role played by Salgado's wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick and their work on the nature preserve Instituto Terra. Sony Pictures Classics, opens Apr. 3.
7:00 PM, Wed. Nov. 19, 2014 - Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas
7_ A SMALL SECTION OF THE WORLD, Dir. Lesley Chilcott
NYC PREMIERE - In equal measures inspiring and endearing, Leslie Chilcott's film spotlights a group of Costa Rican village women who, seeking a way to offset the economically motivated flight of their husbands and sons from the community, form ASOMOBI, a coffee-growing collective—despite not knowing the first thing about growing coffee. Persevering through a steep learning curve and numerous setbacks, ASOMOBI captures the attention and support of a local exporter, and through her, the international coffee industry.
Screening with Luke Lorentzen's SANTA CRUZ DEL ISLOTE. Inhabitants of a remote Colombian island paradise face an uncertain future in changing times.
5:00 PM, Fri. Nov. 14, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Lesley Chilcott
1_ COMING HOME, Dir. Viko Nikci
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE - At the age of 25, Angel Cordero, an innocent man, was arrested and convicted of attempted murder following a stabbing in the Bronx. Viko Nikci follows him as he is released from prison after thirteen years into a new world of smartphones and social media. Readjusting to life on the outside, Angel has two goals: confronting the man who actually committed the crime for which he was punished, and repairing his relationship with the daughter he was forced to leave behind.
7:00 PM, Sat. Nov. 15, 2014 - IFC Center
12:30 PM, Thu. Nov. 20, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Viko Nikci, film subject Angel Cordero
2_ DISRUPTION, Dir. Pamela Yates
NYC PREMIERE - Recognizing the persistence of income inequality in South America, a group of activist economists join together to offer an alternative path to eliminating poverty: encouraging the poor to open savings accounts and thereby become active agents within the existing economic system. Fundación Capital partners with impoverished women to put their plan for financial inclusion into action, beginning pilot programs in Colombia, Peru and Brazil, and demonstrating the power of women to lead potentially continent-wide social change.
2:30 PM, Sat. Nov. 15, 2014 - IFC Center
5:00 PM, Tue. Nov. 18, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Pamela Yates, producer Paco de Onis
3_ THE HAND THAT FEEDS, Dir. Rachel Lears & Robin Blotnick
NYC PREMIERE - An Upper East Side Hot & Crusty bakery serves as the unlikely setting for an old-fashioned David vs. Goliath story in Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick's rousing film. After years of exploitation, Mahoma López, an unassuming sandwich maker, leads his fellow service workers as they demand better working conditions and wages. Risking their livelihood—and, for some, deportation—they take to the streets to plead their case to their regular customers, partnering with impassioned young Occupy activists in a hard-fought battle to prove the power of labor organizing.
2:30 PM, Sun. Nov. 16, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears, film subjects Mahoma Lopez and family
4_ MARMATO, Dir. Mark Grieco
NYC PREMIERE - Exploring the intersection of economic development, environmental impact and globalization, Mark Grieco's film is an intimate and richly observed portrait of Marmato, a rural mining town threatened with destruction. At the center of a new global gold rush, the Colombian government has imperiled Marmato by selling its mines to a Canadian company. With plans in place to displace 8,000 inhabitants, level their mountain home and transform it into an open pit to extract the estimated $20 billion in gold buried within, can the community survive?
2:45 PM, Tue. Nov. 18, 2014 - IFC Center
5:15 PM, Wed. Nov. 19, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Mark Grieco
5_ RUBBLE KINGS, Dir. Shan Nicholson
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE - Confronting a bankrupt, decaying city and the dashed hopes of the civil rights generation, African-American and Latino teenagers violently took over the streets of 1970s New York. The South Bronx became a war zone ruled by gangs like the Savage Skulls and the Ghetto Brothers. Hypnotic archival footage and present-day interviews with former gang members reveal how peace was brokered at the peak of the bloodshed in a most unlikely manner, laying the foundation for what ultimately became hip-hop culture.
Screening with Fraser Munden & Neil Rathbone's THE CHAPERONE. An action-packed, animated retelling of what happened when a drunken motorcycle gang invaded a 1970s school dance.
9:15 PM, Sun. Nov. 16, 2014 - SVA Theatre
Expected to attend: Shan Nicholson, film subjects Benji Melendez, Lloyd Murphy, Jee Sanchez, Rolly Rodriguez and D.S.R.
6_ THE SALT OF THE EARTH, Dir. Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Brazilian Sebastião Salgado has created some of the most indelible photographs of our time. His black- and-white images bring an artful composition to chronicling humanity's "salt of the earth" in multiyear projects such as "Workers," "Migrations" and "Genesis." This film, directed by his son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders, brings an insider's and outsider's perspective on the family, illuminating the key role played by Salgado's wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick and their work on the nature preserve Instituto Terra. Sony Pictures Classics, opens Apr. 3.
7:00 PM, Wed. Nov. 19, 2014 - Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas
7_ A SMALL SECTION OF THE WORLD, Dir. Lesley Chilcott
NYC PREMIERE - In equal measures inspiring and endearing, Leslie Chilcott's film spotlights a group of Costa Rican village women who, seeking a way to offset the economically motivated flight of their husbands and sons from the community, form ASOMOBI, a coffee-growing collective—despite not knowing the first thing about growing coffee. Persevering through a steep learning curve and numerous setbacks, ASOMOBI captures the attention and support of a local exporter, and through her, the international coffee industry.
Screening with Luke Lorentzen's SANTA CRUZ DEL ISLOTE. Inhabitants of a remote Colombian island paradise face an uncertain future in changing times.
5:00 PM, Fri. Nov. 14, 2014 - IFC Center
Expected to attend: Lesley Chilcott
COMENTANDO: 4 DOCUMENTALES DEL DOC NYC
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Tuve la oportunidad de ver cuatro de los documentales en el DOC NYC. Son 4 documentales diametralmente diferentes y sin embargo fieles exponentes de las inquietudes de nuestros días. Sigo afirmando que el género documental es de lo poco que nos queda para mantenernos conectados con la realidad y este contexto es esencial si queremos continuar afinando y promoviendo los cambios necesarios a nivel local y global.
Los 4 documentales son: I Learn America, WEB, The Unknown Known y Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
* Si querían ver a Donald Rumsfeld mostrando lucidez, inquietudes o/y arrepentimiento por llevarnos a una guerra ilegal e injusta en Iraq, se quedarán con los crespos hechos. Aún está en el hueco donde siempre ha estado, creyéndose lo que nadie se cree: que su paso por la administración pública fue una bendición para el país y que él es un gran estadista. Pura BS. El director Errol Morris siguiendo la misma linea utilizada en su magnífico trabajo previo, The Fog of War, intenta desvelar al personaje con preguntas afinadas. Pero a diferencia de The Fog of War, que tiene profundidad, contexto y la distancia que solo el tiempo confiere, en The Unknown Known (frase del mismo Rumsfeld) vemos a un burócrata desubicado que busca salvaguardar su versión de la historia. El tiempo lo dirá. Y el veredicto no será a su favor.
* Ahora, para un banquete intelectual para el cierre del festival, no se pierdan la conversación animada con Noam Chomsky del director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). En Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? analizamos junto con Chomsky y los dibujos animados de Gondry, el surgimiento del lenguage y su trascendencia. Una conversación intensa que necesitaría ser vista más de una vez para captarla en toda su envergadura. Aqui tenemos al Chomsky linguista y filósofo y me encantó el reto de explorar la esencia del lenguage sin caer en pontificaciones políticas. Aunque pienso que Michel Gondry se pasó un poco con la furibunda avalancha de bocetos y dibujos que dificulta seguir la tertulia y que me dejó, más de una vez, mareado.
* La belleza de WEB (Director Michael Kleiman) es su simplicidad y su alcance. Cómo abrir una ventana al mundo a muchos de nuestros hermanos y hermanas en remotas areas del mundo, sin alienarlos? La revolución informática sigue cambiando el mundo y todos debemos apoyar iniciativas que signifiquen una mejoría cualitativa y cuantitativa en nuestras comunidades. El programa de Una Computadora Para Cada Niño sigue en su inmesurable labor de abrir esas ventanas, en este caso en las lejanías del Perú. Necesitamos más manos y más compromiso de todos para seguir llegando a tantos que nos necesitan.
* De las selvas del Perú a la selva urbana de Brooklyn hay muchas millas de distancia pero la búsqueda es la misma: Abrir el camino, señalar la vía, preparar para la marcha. Jóvenes inmigrantes buscando su lugar en el mundo en su nuevo hogar: Los Estados Unidos. El mensaje de I Learned America (Directores Jean-Michel Dissard y Gitte Peng) es claro: Cada inmigrante tiene 'historias maravillosas que compartir'. Cada uno, desde aquel niño que atravesó la enorme distancia que lo separaba de su madre, de Guatemala a Nueva York, hasta el chico solitario de Myanmar, I Learned America reafirma la permanente ola de posibilidades que han hecho de los Estados Unidos en una de las sociedades más exitosas de la historia. Las historias maravillosas deben continuar, a menos que queramos lanzarnos al olvido de la historia.
Aún pueden ver algunos documentales en el DOC NYC y estén pendientes cuando los mencionados aparezcan en algún teatro o festival local. Visiten y entérense > DOCS
CELEBRATING PUERTO RICO'S HERITAGE WITH A FILM FESTIVAL IN NYC
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The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival (IPRHFF) showcases around 50 films dealing with Latino and Puerto Rican issues and takes place November 13-17, in several venues around NYC.
The festival's mission is to encourage narrative and documentary film making about the presence, development, and contributions of Puerto Ricans to the global community.
Some of the highlights of the festival are:
Some of the highlights of the festival are:
EL CLOWN, by Emilio Rodriguez and Pedro Adorno; TIO PAPI, by Fro Rojas; BABYGIRL, by Macdara Vallely; and LEMON, by Laura Brownson and Beth Levison.
For more information on the festival, visit > IPRHFF
DOCUMENTALES LATINOS EN EL FESTIVAL DOC NYC 2013
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Comienza esta semana el Festival de Documentales de NYC ( DOC NYC) incluyendo algunos de los más esperados del año y una buena selección de documentales con temas o realizadores latinos. Desde un documental dedicado a la Voz de América, Mercedes Sosa y otro a explorar al Ché Guevara a través de sus escritos en su segunda gira por el continente, los documentales latinos también se enfocan en temas de inmigración y asimilación en I Learn America y la influencia del Internet, en específico, el movimiento de Una Laptop por Niño en las lejanías del Perú en WEB, cada documental es un fuerte testimonio de un mundo globalizado en donde las historias locales son historias de resonancia universal y en donde lo universal toma connotaciones locales de trascendencia.
He tenido la oportunidad de ver WEB y I Learn America entre otros documentales. Les comentaré un poco de ellos más adelante. Por ahora, estos son los documentales Latinos del DOC NYC:
* GREY CITY (CIDADE CINZA), Dir. Marcelo Mesquita & Guilherme – Art + Design > 9:45 PM, Wed. Nov. 20, 2013 - IFC Center.
US PREMIERE - On the streets of São Paulo, Brazil a new form of graffiti was born. Like wildfire, the works of artists like Os Gêmeos, Nunca and Nina spread through the streets of the city, and then to art galleries and museums around the world. But when a new law against visual pollution threatens to destroy their work, the artists unleash a graffiti war against the local government, giving birth to one of the most creative resistance movements in Latin American art.
US PREMIERE - On the streets of São Paulo, Brazil a new form of graffiti was born. Like wildfire, the works of artists like Os Gêmeos, Nunca and Nina spread through the streets of the city, and then to art galleries and museums around the world. But when a new law against visual pollution threatens to destroy their work, the artists unleash a graffiti war against the local government, giving birth to one of the most creative resistance movements in Latin American art.
* I LEARN AMERICA, Dir. Jean-Michel Dissard & Gitte Peng – Metropolis. 2:00 PM, Sun. Nov. 17, 2013 – SVA Theatre / 4:45 PM, Wed. Nov. 20, 2013 - IFC Center.
NYC PREMIERE - At the International High School at Lafayette, a Brooklyn public high school dedicated to newly arrived immigrants from all over the world, five teenagers strive to master English, adapt to families they haven’t seen in years, and create a future of their own while coming of age in a new land. Their journey is full of challenges, humor and inspiration. Through their lives, we “learn America.”
* MERCEDES SOSA: THE VOICE OF LATIN AMERICA, Dir. Rodrigo H. Vila – Sonic Cinema. 9:30 PM, Sat. Nov. 16, 2013 - SVA Theatre.
NYC PREMIERE - At the International High School at Lafayette, a Brooklyn public high school dedicated to newly arrived immigrants from all over the world, five teenagers strive to master English, adapt to families they haven’t seen in years, and create a future of their own while coming of age in a new land. Their journey is full of challenges, humor and inspiration. Through their lives, we “learn America.”
* MERCEDES SOSA: THE VOICE OF LATIN AMERICA, Dir. Rodrigo H. Vila – Sonic Cinema. 9:30 PM, Sat. Nov. 16, 2013 - SVA Theatre.
NYC PREMIERE - With millions of records sold, thousands of concerts all over the world, and countless fans (and detractors), Mercedes Sosa left behind an indelible legacy. Featuring unforgettable performances that span Sosa’s 60-year career and interviews with musicians like Pablo Milanés, Chico Buarque and David Byrne, this stirring portrait takes us on an in-depth, intimate journey through her life, revealing an artist who became one of the most influential personalities of the 20th century.
* THE TRACES OF DR. ERNESTO GUEVARA, Dir. Jorge Denti – Int’l Perspectives. 9:15 PM, Mon. Nov. 18, 2013 - IFC Center.
US PREMIERE - Drawing from Che Guevara’s personal journals, his correspondence with family and friends, and the testimony of people who knew him best, this documentary focuses on Che’s second journey across Latin America in 1952 and 1953. Retracing his itinerary and the highs and lows of his voyage up to his history-making meeting with Fidel Castro in Mexico, the film paints the definitive portrait of Guevara’s transformation into the most important revolutionary figure in the Americas.
* WEB, Dir. Michael Kleiman – Viewfinders. 2:00 PM, Sat. Nov. 16, 2013 IFC Center / 5:00 PM, Tue. Nov. 19, 2013 - IFC Center.
WORLD PREMIERE - Director Michael Kleiman follows Peruvian families living in remote regions as their children experience the One Laptop per Child program, gaining access to the Internet for the first time. Web considers both the benefits and complications that arise from digital connections. Alongside the poignant and sometimes humorous local stories, Kleiman interviews leading thinkers on the Internet including author Clay Shirky, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and One Laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte for an insightful look at our times.
El DOC NYC se celebra del 14 al 21 de Noviembre. Para más info, visita > DOCS.
CINE FORO: THE SPANISH CRASH AND THE “INDIGNADOS” MOVEMENT at the KJCC
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Tenemos una gran oportunidad de acercarnos a la actual situación de crisis española y al Movimiendo de Los Indignados (15M) que, tomado La Plaza del Sol en Madrid, lanzaron un movimiento mundial que exigía más y mejor democracia. Los Indignados españoles resonaron fuertemente en los Estados Unidos cuando surgen los movimientos Occupy Wall Street y Somos el 99%.
La crisis española continúa y ha desencadenado una crisis social de consecuencias impredecibles. Con un desempleo del 25% (50% entre los jóvenes), la ola de españoles que emigran a otras latitudes - en su mayoría jóven y preparada - sigue aumentando. Los destinos favoritos son los Estados Unidos y América Latina, pero también el resto de Europa y hasta Africa está recibiendo esta inmigración de la peninsula ibérica.
Esta serie de documentales y mesa redonda se presenta en el Centro Rey Juan Carlos I de la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU), Octubre 18 y 19. Para más información, visita: KJJC.
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SPAIN IN CRISIS: THE SPANISH CRASH AND THE “INDIGNADOS” MOVEMENT. Documentary Film Series and Round Table. Friday-Saturday, October 18-19.
Measures to pull Spain out of its current financial crisis are failing to bear fruit and exacerbating social tensions. This two-day program, the first of its kind, showcases the Spanish crash from different perspectives: television journalism; a consulting firm’s video aimed at recruiting investors; a collective documentary on the 15M movement; and responses by a number of influential Spanish audiovisual artists. The program will end with a panel discussion by scholars.
* Friday, October 18, 6:00-7:00 p.m.
- The Great Spanish Crash (BBC documentary directed by Alicia Arce, reporter Paul Mason) Spain / 2012 / 60 min / English and Spanish with English subtitles. An investigation of how the transition to democracy after Franco's dictatorship created a financial and political system that left the country vulnerable to catastrophe when the world economic crisis struck in 2008.
- Another Point of View (produced by Grant Thorton Spain) Spain / 2012 / 6 min / English with Spanish subtitles. Video produced by the consulting firm Grant Thornton Spain to encourage investors to come to Spain.
* Friday, October 18, 7:15 – 9:15 p.m.
- Futures Market / Mercado de futuros (directed by Mercedes Álvarez) Spain / 2012 / 110 min / Spanish with English subtitles. A film essay in tableaux, Futures Markets traces the connections between memory, public space, and the real estate bubbles that led to the international financial crisis.
* Saturday, October 19, 4:00-5:15 p.m
- 15M: Excellent. A Wake-Up Call. Important / 15M: Excelente. Revulsivo. Importante (directed by Stéphane M. Grueso) Spain / 2012 / 75 min / Spanish with English subtitles. On May 15th, 2011, everything changed, or maybe nothing. Tens of thousands of citizens occupied streets and squares in Spain. 15M: Excellent. A Wake-Up Call. Important follows one such experience in Madrid.
* Saturday, October 19, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
- Free I Love You / Libre te quiero (directed by Basilio Martín Patino) Spain / 2012 / 60 min / Spanish with English subtitles. An impressionistic documentation of the occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, made by one of Spain’s most important directors of all times.
- Spanish Revolution? / ¿Revolución española? Spain / 2011-2013 / 48 min / Spanish with English subtitles. Four artistic shorts by prominent Spanish audiovisual artists, which reflect on recent social movements and their context:
- Monumental History of Modern-Day Spain / Historia Monumental de la España Contemporánea (by David Varela) Spain / 2013 / 7 min
- Video-Dérives: Sol (by Flavio G. García) Spain / 2011 / 5 min
- The Guernica Variations / Las Variaciones Guernica (by Guillermo García Peydró) Spain / 2012 / 26 min
- The Killing of the Pig / La Matança Del Porc (by Isaki Lacuesta) Spain-USA / 2012 / 10 min
* Saturday, October 19, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
- Round Table: Moderator: Bryan Cameron (NYU)
Speakers: Germán Labrador (Princeton University), “Think of a White Elephant: Aesthetics of the Spanish Crisis and Foreign Debt in Documentary Film Production”. Pablo La Parra (NYU), “Logical Revolts: Rethinking Democracy in post-15M Spain”. Luis Moreno-Caballud (University of Pennsylvania), “Cultures of Anyone: The Spanish Indignado Movement and Its Contexts”
Followed by Q&A and reception.
This film program is presented by Pragda and NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. With the special collaboration by DOCMA, Asociación de Cine Documental.
CINE : THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE
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When I arrived in NYC back in 1993 this case was already part of the city's lore. I learned a bit about the case by reading reports on the accused and the victim, her slow way to recovery and then about her book, I am the Central Park Jogger. I remember reading about these 5 young people accused of a crime they insisted, and many believed, did not commit. Time will prove them right. Then, the real perpetrator confessed...
This documentary is a look at our city during an era full of paranoia. A city collapsing on every level where justice was something but justice.... and where minorities (surprise!) were in a serious disadvantage.
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THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE > In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it “the crime of the century.” But the truth about what really happened didn’t become clear until after the five had spent years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. This story of injustice finally gets the telling it deserves. The film recently made headlines when lawyers for New York City attempted to subpoena its outtakes for an ongoing lawsuit. A story whose aftershocks continue to shape the city, this promises to be one of the most high-profile documentaries of the year. (119 min). In person: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon and members of the Central Park Five.
* THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE > Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon > En Cartelera > En NYC Nov. 23 - Dec 6 > IFC Center.
DOCUMENTALES LATINOS EN EL DOC NYC FEST + HIGHLIGHTS
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El Tercer Festival de Documentales de NYC (DOCNYC FEST) presenta varios trabajos con temas latinos o relacionados con la comunidad que les recomiendo altamente. Documentales son, por esencia, 'eye openers' y con más de 125 filmes, el festival tiene para todos los gustos. Aqui les menciono algunos documentales que ya he visto y que participan en DOC NYC FEST más algunas recomendaciones de relevancia. Las entradas latinas son excelentes: Shenandoah, La Camioneta, The Central Park Five, Crooked Lines, The Needle y Searching for Sugar Man. Además, les recomendamos: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Mea Culpa Maxima: Silence in the House of God and How to Survive the Plague.
Para los que no han podido hacerlo, tienen otra oportunidad de ver Searching for Sugar Man (que estrenó en el pasado Tribeca Film Festival), The Central Park Five (estrenó en el 50th NYFF) y Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry (estrenó en el Human Rights Film Festival). La Camioneta es otro tremendo documental que les llegará muy cerca...
Déjennos saber que les han parecido!.
DOC NYC FEST se lleva a cabo en el Centro IFC de la Sexta Avenida y en Teatro SVA de Chelsea HASTA EL 15 DE NOVIEMBRE > DOCNYC
DOCUMENTALES LATINOS +
* ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP (dir. Jorge Hinojosa).
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US PREMIERE For the millions of readers who have been enthralled by Iceberg Slim’s books, this film fleshes out the life and legacy of the man who pioneered a new kind of street-wise writing. And for newcomers to his world, it’s a great place to start. Years in the making, the film includes archival footage of Slim along with interviews with his friends, colleagues, and famous admirers such as Chris Rock, Snoop Dogg, Quincy Jones and Ice-T. The story is enhanced with stylish pulp fiction iconography.
* SHENANDOAH (dir. David Turnley).
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WORLD PREMIERE – Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, is a coal-mining town with a proud immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution. Now the town is on the skids, struggling to retain its identity, soul, and values—all of which were dramatically challenged when four of the town’s white, high-school football stars were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Turnley creates a deeply felt portrait of a working-class community on trial. (97 min, in English & Spanish). In person: David Turnley
SAT, NOV 10, 7:00PM (IFC) • MON, NOV 12, 4:30PM (IFC)
* LA CAMIONETA (dir. Mark Kendall).
SAT, NOV 10, 7:00PM (IFC) • MON, NOV 12, 4:30PM (IFC)
* LA CAMIONETA (dir. Mark Kendall).
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Every day, dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States and migrate to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly colored camionetas that bring most Guatemalans to work. This lyrical film follows the migration of one American bus as well as the personal stories of five individuals whose lives become intertwined with its transformation. What slowly emerges is a vivid and rich meditation on the universal quest for mobility. (72 min, in English & Spanish). In person: Mark Kendall
SAT, NOV 10, 9:15PM (IFC)
* THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (dirs. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon).
SAT, NOV 10, 9:15PM (IFC)
* THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (dirs. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon).
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In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it “the crime of the century.” But the truth about what really happened didn’t become clear until after the five had spent years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. This story of injustice finally gets the telling it deserves. The film recently made headlines when lawyers for New York City attempted to subpoena its outtakes for an ongoing lawsuit. A story whose aftershocks continue to shape the city, this promises to be one of the most high-profile documentaries of the year. (119 min). In person: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon and members of the Central Park Five
THU, NOV 15, 7:00PM (SVA) > CLOSING NIGHT GALA
THU, NOV 15, 7:00PM (SVA) > CLOSING NIGHT GALA
PLUS: 2+Short films as part of SHORTS: PORTRAITS program:
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* CROOKED LINES (19 min, dir. Lucy Walker) reunites part of the team behind Waste Land to tell the story of a young man who might have been Brazil’s best hope for Olympic gold in rowing.
* THE NEEDLE (40 min, dir. Carmen Oquendo-Villar, Jose Correa). A gay Puerto Rican man dispenses advice and injections from his clandestine home clinic. With Carmen Oquendo-Villar in person.
THU, NOV 15, 9:45PM (IFC)
As part of SHORT LIST you will have another chance to see:
* SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (dir. Malik Bendjelloul).
* THE NEEDLE (40 min, dir. Carmen Oquendo-Villar, Jose Correa). A gay Puerto Rican man dispenses advice and injections from his clandestine home clinic. With Carmen Oquendo-Villar in person.
THU, NOV 15, 9:45PM (IFC)
As part of SHORT LIST you will have another chance to see:
* SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (dir. Malik Bendjelloul).
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In the late ‘60s, the Detroit singer known as Rodriguez was considered a Chicano Bob Dylan by his producers. His album “Cold Fact” never took off in the U.S., but unbeknownst to him it became massive hit in apartheid-era South Africa. Decades later, amidst rumors of Rodriguez’s suicide, dedicated South African fans search to learn what happened to their hero. This unforgettable film chronicles their quest and its extraordinary outcome.
And also:
* AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (dir. Alison Klayman).
* AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (dir. Alison Klayman).
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Since he was named Runner-Up for TIME Magazine’s 2011 Person of the Year, more people are starting to wonder: who is Ai Weiwei? Director Alison Klayman follows the Chinese artist/activist over three years as he pursues massive art projects around the world and champions free speech in face of intimidation in his home country. He shot to prominence in spring 2011 when Chinese authorities jailed him for two months. Klayman supplies an invaluable portrait of the man behind the headlines.
* MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD (dir. Alex Gibney).
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Mea Maxima Culpa investigates the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of countless incidents of sexual abuse of children. Despite sporadic headlines, we still have enormous gaps in our knowledge about the concealment that took place over decades. Although the church has paid out over $2 billion to settle claims, U.S. courts have convicted only one senior church official for his role in covering up these crimes. Increasingly, other countries are discovering their own dark secrets. Who should be held accountable?
* HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (dir. David France).
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Faced with their own mortality, an improbable group of people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical establishment. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and ‘90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
