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A Brunch and A Day of Films by Latin American Filmmakers
@ Latinbeat Film Festival, 2007
The growing success of Latin American filmmaking is more evident than ever in this year’s Latinbeat Film Festival. The festival presents 19 recent films from 12 Latin American countries, including outstanding works from countries with emerging industries that have never been represented in the festival before. It’s proof that this year’s festival is as diverse as Latin America itself.
For a fourth year, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and NYWIFT celebrate the work of Latina filmmakers with a brunch reception at the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery of the Walter Reade Theater. Filmmakers Paula Heredia and Tania Cypriano will be in attendance at the brunch.
Join us as we welcome Patricia Riggen (Mexico), Maryse Sistach (Mexico), Paula Heredia (El Salvador), Paz Fabrega (Costa Rica), Paz Encina (Paraguay), Tania Hermida (Ecuador), Tania Cypriano (Brazil) and Sandra Kogut (Brazil).
1:30 program:
Pinta The Bird / La Pájara Pinta
Paula Heredia, El Salvador, 2006, 10 min.
A book opens to reveal a magical legend set in a village in the smallest country of the American continent, where Pinta the Bird beckons a boy and a girl and makes their dreams come true.
Temporal
Paz Fabrega, Costa Rica, 2006, 22 min.
In a small village on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Tanya and Laura are the only two high school students who stay behind after school closes. The two girls become close as they dream of the future. Fabrega immerses the viewer in the sensual textures and lazy rhythms of summer, imbued by the excitement and angst of imminent adulthood.
My Grandmother Has a Video Camera
Tania Cypriano, Brazil/U.S., 2007. 60 min.
For over 20 years, a family of Brazilian immigrants in the United States used their home video camera to record first-hand how they saw their new world and struggled to establish themselves. Fast paced and funny, this documentary presents a touching portrait of migration, displacement and search for identity.
4:00 pm
How Much Further/Qué tan lejos.
Tania Hermida, Ecuador, 2006, 92 min.
Esperanza arrives in the Andean country from her native Spain and runs into Tristeza, a cynical, mistrustful Ecuadorian university student. They soon embark together on a journey where, along the way, their exchanges with strangers and the companionship they find in each other result in surprising revelations.
6:00pm
Under the Same Moon/La misma luna
Patricia Riggen, Mexico, 2007, 190 min.
This is the story of nine year old Carlitos and his mother Rosario, who illegally crossed over to the United States to offer a better life for her son. Carlitos is raised by his grandmother in Mexico, until unexpected circumstances lead him and his mother to embark on separate journeys, in a desperate attempt to reunite. Both face challenges along the way, but they never lose hope that they will one day be together again.
Don’t miss other films by Latina filmmakers showing at the festival:
Paraguayan Hammock/Hamaca paraguaya. Paz Encina, Paraguay
Mutum. Sandra Kogut, Brazil
Violet Perfume/Perfume de Violetas. Maryse Sistach, Mexico
All film are presented in their original languages with English subtitles
For more information about the films visit www.filmlinc.com
Sep 5, 2007 
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