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2014 Latino & Native American Film Festival @ SCSU

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Dedicated to Puerto Rican Photographer: Frank Espada

1930 – 2014

FULL LENGTH FILMS Click on Image or Web-Address for Trailer

The Gold Broach (Broche de Oro) Raul Marchand 2012. Categories: Film

Run time: 90 min. | Puerto Rico | Language: Spanish | subtitled

A delightful comedy about three elderly friends who "escape" from a retirement home for a week end at the beach where a grandson is participating in a surfing competition. The film was a huge box office success in Puerto Rico.


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Cinco de Mayo: The battle of Puebla Rafa Lara 2013. Categories: Film

Run time: 125 min. | Mexico | Language: Spanish | subtitled

On May 5th, 1862, General Ignacio Zaragoza’s inexperienced army defeated Napoleon III’s invading French forces; yet, very little is known or remembered about the events that led to that historic and bloody battle. Featuring an all-‐star Mexican cast (Angelica Aragon, Kuno Becker, Mario Zaragoza) and hundreds of extras, and based on rigorous research, this exciting multi-‐million dollar war epic tells the story of this much celebrated event from the points of view of politicians, generals, soldiers, wives and even two young lovers who meet on the battlefield. Caíto. Pablo Trapero 2013. Categories: Emerging Filmmaker Competition

Run time: 70 min. | Argentina | Language: Spanish | subtitled

Caíto, produced by Pablo Trapero, is a sentimental road movie about the close relationship between two brothers, born and raised in a small town in the Province of Córdoba. Caíto has Becker's Muscular Dystrophy, but he does not let that stop him from living his life to the fullest! He had a dream to someday make a movie with his brother, Guille, a well-‐known actor. Caíto, the movie, is that dream come true. Garifuna in Peril Rubén Reyes, Ali Allie 2012. Categories: Emerging Filmmaker Competition

Run time: 99 min. | Honduras | Language: Spanish | subtitled Click Here for Trailer: http://nefiac.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/garifunainperil_rubnreyes_nefiac2013

Ricardo, a Garifuna language teacher living in Los Angeles, wants to preserve his culture by building a language school in his home village. However, a fundraising venture with his brother Miguel soon becomes tangled up by the expansion plans of a nearby tourist resort, forcing Ricardo to fly back home and sort out the mess.


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Ricardo’s land troubles are mirrored in a play within a movie about Garifuna hero Joseph Satuye. Shot in Los Angeles and Honduras, “Garifuna in Peril” features a cast of first-‐time Honduran and Belizean actors. No Autumn, No Spring (Sin Otoño Sin Primavera) Iván Mora 2012. Categories: Emerging

Filmmaker Competition Run time: 117 min. | Ecuador | subtitled

Lucas is in college studying for a law degree. He has developed an advanced concept on the subject of the anarchy of the imagination. Lucas dreams big, and when his ideals fall short he becomes addicted to sleeping pills, turning his life into an anarchic battleground. Paula sells pills while she collects tales of happiness from the city’s inhabitants. She is coping with the death of her father, and a medical condition. Antonia has a passion for life but her doctors have given her a few months to live; so she decides to contact ex-‐boyfriend Martin, now living abroad with a fiancée, to come back and grant Antonia one final, treacherous request. No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the transition from adolescence to adulthood. — Andres Castillo Se Vende (For Sale) Jorge “Pichi” Perugorria 2012. Categories: Film

Run time: 77 min. | Cuba | subtitled

Click Here for Trailer: http://www.sevendelapelicula.com/#prettyPhoto/1/

This is the story of Nacar (yes, like the made-‐in-‐Cuba soap), a young lab worker who decides to have her financial woes and hardships worked out by selling the tomb where her parents lie and, “piece by piece”, their remains to those who use these remains in occult practices. During one of her weekly visits to her mother’s grave, the diseased advises her to sell the grave: "... If we have to sacrifice the dead to feed the living ... we will!" … Cubans have always been attracted by black comedy and necrophilia. That’s how the director of Se Vende


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(For Sale) explains the enormous success of his film. This is a story of black humor, where death is only a pretext to talk about life as Pearl says, "My mother is a specialist in the art of survival, .. that is what this story is about "

DOCUMENTARIES Click on Image or Web-Address for Trailer

The Great Fallacy (La Gran Falacia) Paco Vazquez 2013. Categories: Documentary Run time: 86 min. | Puerto Rico | Language: Spanish | subtitled

Click Here for Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0rY-‐8fEC0w

The Great Fallacy is a documentary about the political, economic, and social situation of Puerto Rico. Based on current circumstances of the Island and using history as the foundation for the film, this documentary reveals how politicians manipulate the system so big corporations can maintain control. The Great Fallacy also promotes solutions for the people to force changes to the system through themselves and not through the government. Noho Hewa (The Truth about Hawai’i) A. Keala Kelly 2013. Categories: Documentary Run time: 70 min. | Hawai’i | Language: English |

Click Here for Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r69D97_tH5k

In the Hawaiian language, hewa means wrong and noho means to occupy. This documentary is a contemporary look at Hawaiian people, politics and resistance in the face of their systematic erasure under U.S. laws, economy, militarism, and real estate speculation. It is a raw, unscripted story that makes critical links between seemingly unrelated industries, and is told from the perspective of Hawaiians. Noho Hewa is the first feature length film produced by Hawaiian journalist and filmmaker Anne Keala Kelly,


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who directed, shot and edited the film over the course of six years. In 2008 Noho Hewa won the Hawaii International Film Festivals Award For Best Documentary. Angels & Dust (Angeles y Polvo) Hector Herrerra 2014. Categories: Documentary

Run time: 78 min. | Panama / Spain| Language: Spanish | subtitled

Click Here for Trailer: http://www.javafilms.fr/spip.php?article1429

A mesmerising, hallucinogenic journey through the gangs and drug culture of modern Panama. When music producer, Paco and his wife, Kene, are arrested at the airport with plates of cocaine strapped to their bodies, his brother, Mauricio, is dragged into a dangerous underworld. Desperate to do something, Mauricio leaves his home in Barcelona behind and -‐ with the help of illegal taxi driver, Fat -‐ settles into a new life in Panama. As the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, Mauricio tries to secure protection in prison for Paco and Kene and win custody of their two year old daughter, seized at the airport by social services. Paco soon comes under the wing of violent killer, Matón, and even starts producing music from prison. But life on the streets is even more dangerous. Every day, more and more people are killed in wars between rival gangs. Journalists like William Sala spend their days going from one crime scene to another. Guided by Fat’s friends, former gang members Julito and Lolo, Mauricio witnesses first-‐hand the realities of ghetto life. One Dollar (Un Dollar: El precio de la vida) Hector Herrerra 2012. Categories:

Documentary Run time: 64 min. | Panama | Language: Spanish | subtitled

Click Here for Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323497/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

This story tells about daily violence inside the ghettos of Panama. Three main characters: LATIN FRESH music band; a clerk who collects corpses on Panama streets; and LOLO, the leader of CRAZY KILLER one of the most dangerous gangs of Panama

3 Million (3 Millones). Jaime Roos 2012. Categories: Documentary Run time: 135 min. | Uruguay | Language: Spanish | subtitled

Iconic Uruguayan musician Jaime Roos and son Yamandu capture the glory and excitement around the Uruguayan national soccer team’s (known as La Celeste) performance during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa in this exuberant documentary. Through interviews, exclusive images and stock footage and a fantastic


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soundtrack written by Jaime Roos, “3 Million” is a celebration of soccer and about a father and son who find common ground over their love for the sport. The Rose: A Senseof Place Aku Rodriguez 2013. Categories: Documentary

Run time: 45 min. | USA | Language: English |

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This film documents the social, economic, and political forces behind the The Rose Theater, the first Spanish language movie theater in Texas, which opened in the 1920’s. Actors would come and visit, attracting big crowds. One of the actors most easily recognized today is Dolores Del Rio. El Rastrojero: Utopías De La Argentina Potencia Miguel Colombo, Marcos Pastor

2006. Categories: Documentary Run time: 75 min. | Argentina | subtitled

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This film documents the social, economic, and political forces behind the development and production of the Rastrojero, a small diesel utility pickup truck (taxis were also developed) built by the Argentine government-‐owned airplane (and vehicle) manufacturer IAME (Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado) from 1952 to 1980. The Rastrojero was born as a product driven by the state company, during the epoch of stimulus to the local work force and support to domestic industry, during the presidency of General Juan Domingo Perón. The End of the Potemkin "El fin del Potemkin" Misael Bustos 2011. Categories: Documentary

Run time: 77 min. | Argentina | subtitled

Click Here for Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_382770&feature=iv&src_vid=cegZ21OIsrs&v=HGvtW6oW1Jk

"The end of the Potemkin" tells the story of Soviet sailors who were left stranded in the port of Mar del Plata, Argentina aboard Latar II, when the USSR dissolved. The fishing company they worked for was based in Latvia and went bankrupt when the Russians told them to take charge of their own ships. Over sixty men were in the Argentina coast, without pay or opportunities back home. The filmmaker, Misael Bustos, found some of them and, based on their lives, made this documentary. The title refers to "Battleship Potemkin" symbol of the Russian Revolution of 1905, immortalized by Sergei Eisenstein. Chronic Love (Amor Crónico) Jorge Prerrugorría 2012. Categories: Documentary

Run time: 80 min. | Cuba | Language: Spanish, English | subtitled


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Amor crónico follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-‐born and New York based singer CuCú Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional love story narrative. The result is an energetic display of CuCú Diamantes' glamorous performance style with a fresh Latin soundtrack and comical twist. It is at unique road movie and portrait of a Cuban artist traveling back to her roots. The Word in the Woods (La Palabra En El Bosque) Jeffrey Gould 2011.

Categories: Documentary Run time: 56 min. | El Salvador | subtitled

During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazan organized to resist National Guard repression, which often involved torture and executions. In the 1980s, the military engaged in scorched earth operations against their villages, inaugurating a 12-‐year civil war. La palabra en el bosque tells their stories, placing them in context within the light of current reality. There Isn't A More Diverse Place (No Hay Lugar Más Diverso) Felipe Degregori 2012.

Categories: Documentary Run time: 52 min. | Peru | Language: Spanish | subtitled

This documentary was chosen to represent Peru in the 3rd edition of Doctv Latinoamérica. It tells the story of the boat, Henry 9, one of the boats belonging to the company of that same name, that transports people and goods in the Peruvian Amazon on the route from Pucallpa to Iquitos and back. The film draws the spectator into this magical, yet very complicated world.


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The Bus (La Camioneta) Mark Kendall 2012. Categories: Documentary

Run time: 71 min. | Guatemala | Language: Spanish | subtitled

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-‐colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-‐collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs. LA CAMIONETA follows one such bus on its transformative journey: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live.

SHORTS Click on Image or Web-Address for Trailer DESDE CUBA: NEW CINEMA 1 Various Directors 2013. Categories: Shorts Program, Young

Cuban Filmmaker's Showcase Run time: 83 min. | Cuba | Language: Spanish | subtitled

A selection of Award Winning Shorts from the Young Filmmakers Showcase Competition in Havana -‐ 2013 -‐ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Every Time I Remember, I Forget Laura González 2012. Categories: Short Run time: 14 min. | Uruguay, Spain | Language: Spanish | subtitled


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María is an elderly spanish woman suffering from Alzheimer's who keeps returning to her childhood during the Spanish Civil War. Rosa is a young colombian girl who has lived through war. When she becomes María's caretaker, a special relationship develops. Help Me To Remember (Ayúdame A Recordar) Fran Casanova 2012. Categories: Short

Run time: 17 min. | Spain | subtitled

Santi is a 10 year old boy who, after discovering that his grandfather Pelayo is deeply affected by the death of his wife and suffering from Alzheimers, finds, through fantasy and old comics, a way to help his grandfather get back the will to live. Last Street (Calle Última) Marcelo Martinessi 2012. Categories: Short

Run time: 20 min. | Paraguay | Language: Spanish | subtitled

Myriam is 13. This might be her last day at school. 24 hours of her life, portraying the delights and struggles of her routine, along a journey to find acceptance.


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Positive Negative Florencia Marano 2012. Categories: Short Run time: 15 min. | Argentina | Language: Spanish | subtitled

In a small town in the argentinian Pampa, two teen friends secretly escape to the countryside, to take care of something that can only be solved covertly. Reality 2.0 / La Realidad 2.0 Victor Orozco Ramirez 2012. Categories: Short

Run time: 11 min. | Germany, Alemania, Mexico | Language: Spanish | subtitled

It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short animated documentary about the drug-‐related violence in Mexico. The Milk of Hope (El Seno de la Esperanza) Freddy Vargas 2012. Categories: Short

Run time: 13 min. | Dominican Republic | Language: Spanish | subtitled

Cheddy Garcia plays Sonia Marmolejos, a young Dominican mother of five, who helped several orphan Haitian babies after Haiti's 2010 earthquake in such a tender and unselfish way that it touched the hearts of everyone in the nation of the Dominican Republic and the world. Based on a true story.


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The Tuner (O Afinador) Matheus Parizi, Fernando Camargo 2012. Categories: Shorts Program

Run time: 15 min. | Brazil | Language: Portuguese | subtitled

Paulo, a young piano tuner who works in his father"s restoration workshop, wants to be a concert pianist. During a day of work, he tries to find the whereabouts of a letter from a music conservatory that he anxiously awaits. Yasuní Nicolás Entel 2013. Categories: Documentary, Short

Run time: 31 min. | Ecuador | Language: Spanish | subtitled

YASUNI explores the role of the oil industry in the lives of two native communities in the Amazon, and establishes a sharp contrast between those that have been touched by the oil companies, and those that have not. Song to my sad sister (Canção Para Minha Irmã) Pedro Severien 2012. Categories: Short

Run time: 18 min. | Brasil | subtitled


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Tiago is an inmate in a semi-‐open regime. It's been some time since he last returned to his hometown. On a visit to his sister, he finds a very different landscape from the one kept in his memory. Something has also changed in the interior landscape of the people who live there. San Juan, La Noche Más Larga Claudia Huaiquimilla 2012. Categories: Short

Run time: 18 min. | Chile | subtitled

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It's June 24Th and people of Lawan, a Mapuche community in southern Chile, is planning a big celebration for Saint John's Eve. Despite this, Cheo (11), a restless and misfit kid, it's not happy because means the return of Manquel (45), his father, to the community. He is a violent man who, when he drinks too much, vent his anger with his family, unleashing in Cheo strong desires for revenge. Adivina Quién Viene A Comer Mañana Pepe Jordana 2012. Categories: Dramatic Short

Run time: 30 min. | Spain | subtitled https://vimeo.com/35515981

A beautiful young veterinarian, only daughter of a humble shepherd, returns home to a remote village in Galicia to announce her upcoming wedding to a renowned neurologist. She wants to organize a meal the next day to let everyone know. However, her father, moved equally by jealousy and ignorance (he confuses neurology with black magic) decides to stop the wedding, with the help of several neighbors. Atracones Bernabé Rico 2011. Categories: Dramatic Short

Run time: 7 min. | Spain | subtitled

https://vimeo.com/22608690

Alice is a teenager admired by all her peers. She is an excellent student and a good friend. However, she sees herself as a fat pig.

LOCAL FILMMAKERS Carlos Mercedes Arensberg 2012. Categories: Dramatic Short

Run time: 6 min. | USA | subtitled No Trailer Available

In this short I pay tribute to my brother Carlos. The first love of my life and my muse. In a world of irresponsible parents like crazy and sometimes cruel children -‐ my older brother Carlos -‐ protected me, inspired and showed a life full of magic, art, humor, culture and intelligence. Carlos was assaulted several times just for being homosexual -‐ died of AIDS at age 35 and a big piece of my heart went with him. The rest of me will forever be, indulably, influenced by him. In the video I investigate the Carlos exisiting inside of me. A little lost, a little lonely, a little different ...... but eternally searching. exploring

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