Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts

12/17/13

Strain - Yin Chang's Film About The Consequences Of Bullying

From left, sisters Lelina, Yin and Melora Chang

Speaking of talented young Long Islanders of color...STRAIN is a short film about bullying that was written and produced by the Chang sisters of Great Neck. It's a beautifully made film with a powerful and urgent message.

For more information about this film and its producers, see:

StrainFilm.com
Silent anti-bullying short film 'Strain' speaks volumes - 9/19/13, Newsday 
Yin Chang


Photo: Chang Sisters (Newsday)

11/2/09

Taught to Hate - a film by James Garcia Sotomayor

The Long Island Latino Film Festival is this week -- Nov. 6,7,8 . Coincidently, it opens exactly a year and a short drive from the place and time of Marcelo Lucero's murder by a racist wolf pack. That senseless and evil murder shocked the immigrant communities across Long Island, the United States and even across the world.

It also exposed an ugly, deadly vein of hate typically veiled behind the leafyscapes of American suburbia, a vein mined by nativists politicians like Maricopa County's Joe Arpaio, Hazelton PA's Lou Barletta and Suffolk County's Steve Levy.

Now comes what may be the first of its type, "Taught to Hate,” a 27 fiction film based on the Lucero killing and the American sub-culture shaped by hate. The filmmaker is James Garcia Sotomayor, a local filmmaker and Latino immigrant who funnelled his life savings into making the film. He did so because, "I had to do something."

It's been noted that Marcelo's surname name means 'Shining Light'. The memory of Marcelo Lucero and the works of people like Garcia Sotomayor are our Luceros.

The Long Island Latino International Film Festival Nov. 6-7-8, 2009


The Long Island Latino International Film Festival

Nov. 6-7-8, 2009

This year LILIFF is screening several premiers and world premiers including the film “Stereo Typed” produced on Long Island and features actor Frankie G. who has been in films such as “The Italian Job”, “Manito” and the upcoming film the “Devils Tomb”.
Read more

Box Office
Festival Tickets: LILIFF offers 8 Screening Programs throughout the festival. Each program features a group of films for one price.

3-Day Festival Pass Price: $40
Festival passes allow access to ALL Screening Programs.
Get your tickets
Individual Programs Price: $10Get your tickets

6/2/09

Latino Films @ the Brooklyn International Film Festival - June 5 -14, 2009

FALLING AWAKE by Agustin

Falling Awake" is the powerful story of Jay (Andrew Cisneros), a young man struggling to find his identity in The Bronx in a house crowded with family members and a neighborhood filled with loyal friends and dangerous enemies. A gifted musician, Jay hopes to leave it all and pursue his dream of composing and performing music. Once he meets Alessandra (Jenna Dewan), a beautiful young woman who lives in Brooklyn, his determination to defy the expectations of his frustrated, angry father become even stronger. Yet Jay is tied to his home through loyalty to his friends and to his brother, who has returned unexpectedly from service in the Marines. As he reaches toward a wider world, he is pulled back over and over by the cycles of anger and violence that have defined his life and neighborhood for so long. It takes love, a change of heart and a new understanding of life's elusive chance at happiness to finally help Jay make the long, uncertain leap to a fresh chance.
Trailer

DON ROBERTO'S SHADOW by Juan Diego Spoerer & Håkan Engström

A boy travels to a saltpeter office with his family, to the city of Chacabuco in the Chilean desert, where he walks along the old buildings. The years pass by and, as the wind erases the days and hours from yesterday, the boy is now grown up, a lonely old man, and that old man decides to move to Chacabuco.
Trailer

SIRENS (SIRENAS) by Alejo Levis

She lost the baby. She stares out the window. Every night when he arrives home, an argument. One day she told him, a few black women on the street walked strangely, like dancing, they looked like dark sirens.
Trailer

FLYING LOTUS by Daniel Garcia

Concentrate produced this music video for Flying Lotus. The video, 'Infinitum' was directed by Daniel Garcia
Trailer


COTTON CANDY by Aritz Moreno

The cold always complicates things.

Trailer


Links:
XII. Brooklyn International Film Festival
BiFF 2009 Trailer YouTube

2/11/09

Lydia Cacho's Los Demonios del Edén (The Demons of Eden) - The Documentary

Lydia Cacho: My Life Under the Gun - 3/11/09 @ Shelter Rock

Los Demonios del Edén (The Demons of Eden) is the story of Lydia Cacho, a courageous writer and feminist who is confronting powerful businessmen and politicians protecting a child pornography ring operating in Cancun and the United States.

Lydia narrates her confrontation with those powerful forces since she was kidnapped and incarcerated for a couple of days. She reveals her motivations and emotions, and the paradoxes that emerge when she investigates and publishes her book entitled Los Demonios del Edén.

The following is the Spanish language documentary companion to Lydia's book:

Segment 1


Segment 2


Segment 3


Segment 4


Segment 5


Segment 6


Segment 7


Segment 8

2/4/09

Film on Rights Struggle of Colombia's Indigenous - Huntington's Cinema Arts Centre 2/15/09

WE ARE RAISED WITH THE STAFF OF AUTHORITY IN HAND
Somos Alzados En Bastones De Mando


An award-winning documentary produced by the Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, about the resistance of the indigenous population of Colombia to repression.

Sunday, February 15

Brunch: 10:30am/Introduction, Film, Discussion: 11:30am

Speakers: Mario Murillo, host of WBAI's Wake Up Call and Assoc. Prof. of Communications, Hofstra Univ.; Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host of WBAI’s First Voices: Indigenous Radio

Help bring Colombian radio station Radio Payu-mat back on the air!

Tickets for this benefit: $25

Advance tickets available online, or call 800-838-3006 and ask for event 54041, or at CAC box office

CINEMA ARTS CENTRE - a not-for-profit film arts organization
423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743 * 631-423-7611 * Fax: 631-423-5411 * For show times, call 631-423-FILM (3456).



10/2/08

Minerva Perez Scelza on OLA Latino Film Festival

“Sometimes we see that there is not a great message being put out there about the Latino community, but this film festival is a real prime way to celebrate the positive aspects. I hope that the celebration won’t just end with watching a film, but with really building a positive image within the rest of the community.”

Executive Director Minerva Perez Scelza on OLA Latino Film Festival

The first installment of the fifth annual OLA Latino Film Festival will be held at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton on Friday, October 3, followed by a second evening with two new films at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday, October 25.

Link: 'Journeys' is theme of this year's Ola Film Festival - 27east.com
Related: OLA's 5th Latino Film Festival
OLA's Children's Art Project Features Hector de Cordova

9/22/08

LI Latino Film Fest - Tix Online til Midnight 9/25!


Buy your tickets, before it's too late

Box Office
Festival Tickets: LILIFF offers 7 Screening Programs throughout the festival. Each program features a group of films for one price.

3-Day Festival Pass Price: $40
Festival passes allow access to ALL Screening Programs.
Get your tickets

Individual Programs Price: $10
Get your tickets

Link

9/18/08

¡Sorpresa! Selects Finalists for Hamptons Film Fest

¡Sorpresa!, the Spanish-language children’s network, has selected the five ¡Sorpresa! Youth Film Competition finalists that will screen as part of the Youth Media Program at the 16th annual Hamptons International Film Festival to be held on Oct. 15-19, 2008.

This year’s films focus on immigration issues and the importance of preserving Hispanic culture, highlighting the competition’s 2008 theme and ¡Sorpresa!’s tagline, “The World You Imagine.”

The winner will be selected at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and featured with the other finalists in the 2nd annual original special, “Luz, Cámara, ¡Sorpresa!,” hosted this year by filmmaker Jorge Colon and scheduled to premiere on ¡Cine Sorpresa! on Oct. 26 at 8:30 PM EST after an encore presentation of the 2007 special at 8 PM EST.

9/9/08

LI Latino International Film Festival - 9/26-28

The Long Island Latino International Film Festival
Sept.26 - Sept. 28


The Long Island Latino International Film Festival was created to celebrate and showcase the finest in Latino filmmaking. Now in our 4th year LILIFF continues to build its reputation by presenting exceptional works by or about Latinos. Opening night films will be the romantic drama short Mayor O Menor and the world premier of Bracero Stories.

More Info

Box Office
Festival Tickets: LILIFF offers 7 Screening Programs throughout the festival. Each program features a group of films for one price.

3-Day Festival Pass Price: $40
Festival passes allow access to ALL Screening Programs.
Get your tickets
Individual Programs Price: $10
Get your tickets

9/2/08

OLA's 5th Latino Film Festival


OLA of Eastern Long Island, Inc. holds its 5th Latino Film Festival this October at various Hamptons venues.

The schedule includes film screenings October 3rd (Parish Art Museum, Southampton) and October 25th (Guild Hall, East Hampton), as well as an October 4th OLA Fund Raiser Fiesta at Ziggy's of Bridgehampton.

The films are Peter Raymont's A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman, Carlos Sorín's El Perro, Juan Carlos Cremata's Viva Cuba, and Lucía Puenzo's XXY.

All are welcomed.

For more information, please call 631.726.6526 or visit www.holaola.org.

8/8/08

Indigenous Peoples Day at The American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History
presents

Indigenous Peoples Day
Saturday, August 9
12 noon-5:00 p.m.

Kaufmann Theater, first floor
Free with Museum admission

In recognition of the United Nations' International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, this afternoon features a special concert performance with Halau I Ka Wekiu from Hawai'i as well as an indigenous Caribbean cultural presentation by members of the Cacibajagua Taino Cultural Society.

"Yarning Up", a short film series focusing on Northern Australian
Aboriginal stories, will also be featured.

An Indigenous Artisan Showcase will take place in the Museum's Grand Gallery.

This program is cosponsored with the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the Tribal Link Foundation and the United Confederation of
Taino People.

1:00 p.m. - Halau I Ka Wekiu
Hawaiian Hula School Performance

2:00 p.m. - "Yarning Up: 4 Short Stories from the Top End"
Australian Aboriginal Short Films
Screening with introduction and Q&A by Producer Penny Smallacombe

3:00 p.m. - Halau I Ka Wekiu
Hawaiian Hula School Performance

4:30 p.m. - Cacibajagua Taino Cultural Society

12noon – 5:30pm: An Indigenous Artisan Showcase, Grand Gallery, First Floor
Several indigenous artists including Jude Norris (Cree) and Taino Spirit will display their works throughout the day.

7/18/08

Mexican Film Festival

The First Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival runs July 23-27 at the QUAD Cinema in Greenwich Village (34 West 13th Street, New York, NY).

A terrific venue, interesting films and fun fiestas will no doubt make this festival a major cinematic, social and cultural event.

The Films

3:19


Malos Hábitos


Bajo Juárez












Fuera del cielo


Nacido sin












Quemar las naves


Llamando a un Ángel


Niñas mal


Mejor es que Gabriela no se muera


La Zona


Stellet Licht


Familia tortuga

3/20/08

Sorpresa! Latino Youth Film Competition at the Hamptons Film Festival

The Sorpresa! Network and the Hamptons International Film Festival announced today that they will continue their partnership with the Sorpresa! Youth Film Competition at the 16th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, to be held October 15th - 19th, 2008.

For this year's competition, Sorpresa! is looking for outstanding short films created by young people ages 17 and under that illustrate "The World You Imagine" through a Latino lens.

"The Sorpresa! Youth Film Competition offers a unique opportunity for the Festival to demonstrate its commitment to up-and-coming filmmakers from the Latino community by showcasing their short films before international film directors, producers and industry members." Karen Arikian, Executive Director of the Hamptons International Film Festival

Sorpresa! is kicking off its search for submissions of original 3 to 5 minute short videos or films depicting a world of each participant's design reflective of Latino culture. Five finalists will be selected and screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

The Hamptons International Film Festival
3 Newtown Mews
East Hampton, NY 11937
Tel: (631) 747-7978
Fax: (631) 324-5116
info@hamptonsfilmfest.org