Film Festival/Festival de Cine: New Films from Latin America and Spain: Spring 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Room F
Film Festival/Festival de Cine:
New Films from Latin America and Spain
Spring 2015 Semester
All films subtitled
This Spanish and Latin American film festival features films organized around two related questions: first, how do these Spanish language films reveal new knowledge concerning the lived social and cultural histories of multilingual groups within larger national and transnational contexts; and second, how does the art of these films provide viewers with a critical eye on the connections between language and power, such as the relationship between “national” languages and hegemonic culture and the link of linguistic difference with popular culture “from below.”
FINAL FILM IN SERIES Wednesday, 8 April, 4:30 pm, Johnson Center, Room F: Coming-of-Age Drama Wilaya (Pedro Pérez Rosado, Spain, 2012, set in a Sahrawi refugee camp). The film will be introduced by María Sánchez García (via Skype). She a Spanish contemporary artist, blogger, and new media and art expert. María has served as Country Director for In Medi Terraneum and as staff member for Artifariti in the Sahrawi refugee camps. See trailer.
Our schedule for the semester:
Monday, 2 February, 7:20 pm, Research I, Room 163: Thriller 7 Cajas (7 Boxes, directed by Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori, Paraguay, 2014). Film introduction by Lisa Rabin, associate professor of Spanish, GMU. See trailer.
Wednesday, 11 February, 4:30 pm, Research I, Room 163: Crime Drama Pa Negre (Black Bread, Agustí Villaronga, Spain, 2010, in Catalan). Screening introduced via Skype, by Sergi Martín, scriptwriter for TV3-Televisió de Catalunya and OAS. Esperanza Roman-Mendoza will translate his introduction. See trailer.
Monday, 2 March, 7:20 pm, Research I Room 163: Family Drama Zona Sur (Southern District, Juan Carlos Valdivia, Bolivia, 2011). See trailer.
Wednesday, 4 March 4:30pm, Johnson Center Cinema: Stolen Education (A documentary by Enrique Alemán, Jr., and Rudy Luna, US, 2013). See trailer. Free pizza provided by Manhattan Pizza after the screening.
Monday, 23 March, 7:20 pm, Research I, Room 163: Coming-of-Age Drama La Yuma (Florence Jauguey, Nicaragua, 2011).
The festival is free and open to the public.
The festival is made possible with the support of Pragda, and with the additional contributions of Spain Arts & Culture and the Department of Modern & Classical Languages, the Visiting Filmmakers Series, Film & Media Studies, University Life, Hispanic Culture Review, Latin American Studies, University Libraries and WGMU Radio at George Mason University. (La Yuma 2011)
