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UAFW WASHINGTON DC 2004 RESCHEDULED
REDUCED
RATES ANNOUNCED!
Due to limited
resources as a result of preparing for the upcoming 2004 Urban
Filmmakers Conference (UFC) , we regretfully announce that
Miami and Philadelphia have been dropped
from the 2004 UAFW Tour.
In addition, the
Washington DC workshops have been
rescheduled from March 19th to Saturday, May 8th. The Detroit
workshop will happen as scheduled on Saturday, April 17th,
however both workshops will now take place entirely on
Saturday and at a much lower registration rate.
The new rates are
$50 per class for regular registration and $65 for late
registration. Both courses may still be purchased together at
a reduced rate which is now $90 for regular registration and
$120 for late. The early or regular registration rates expire
two-weeks prior to the workshop start date.
Click here to view
our revised tour schedule.
If you have already
registered and still plan to attend, please contact us via
email at info@uafw.org so we can refund any overpayment. Once
again, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience these
changes may have caused.
Sincerely,
Team
Rockstone
San Diego Latino
Film Festival Continues Until Sunday, March
21st
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This
year's festival will present over 100 programs of short and
feature films from throughout Latin America and the United
States. Some of the feature film highlights
include:
* Amarte Duele *
Mexico, 2002, 104
min.
Teenagers Renata and Ulises search for love and
freedom amidst class divides, prejudice, peer pressure and
urban violence in this moving Romeo and Juliet story set in
the shopping malls, working class barrios and wealthy
neighborhoods of Mexico City. Skateboards, graffiti art and a
gritty rock en español soundtrack propel this bittersweet love
story starring Martha Higareda and Luis Fernando Peña (De la
Calle) as teenagers who use hopes and dreams to imagine a
better world. Also starring Ximena Sariñana
(Todo el Poder), Andrea Damián and Armando Hernández.
The soundtrack features music by Fey, Elefante,
Genitallica, Diabolo and Pulpo. From the director of Todo el
Poder. For mature audiences. Screenings: Monday, March 15,
10:00 pm, Saturday, March 20, 7:00 pm
* Asesino en
Serio *
Mexico, 2002, 86 min.
A mysterious Aztec
ritual, a jaded police chief and a trail of smiling victims
play a role in this "cheeky" murder mystery/erotic thriller/
comedy about a killer whose victims die in bed. Asesino
en Serio provides a stylish and hilarious update to the campy
Mexican "Sexy Comedias" of the 1980s. Starring Santiago
Segura, Jesus Ochoa and '80s comedy regular Rafael Inclan as a
wisecracking medical examiner. The soundtrack features music
from Julieta Venegas, Maldita Vecindad and Jarabe de Palo. A
film about obsession, confession and nalgas. For mature
audiences. Screenings: Wednesday, March 17, 7:00 pm, Friday,
March 19, 10:00 pm
* Como el Gato y el
Raton *
Colombia, 2003, 93 min
A literal power
struggle erupts in the Colombian shantytown of La Estrella
when the first electric street lights are installed. The
celebrating quickly turns to conflict when there is a debate
about when electricity will be available for homes. Two
families take matters into their own hands and begin
bootlegging the electricity from the lampposts, which leads
the community into an inevitable, yet tragicomic, power war.
Starring Jairo Camargo, Alina Lozano,
Patricia Maldonado and Gilberto Ramirez. For mature
audiences. Screenings: Sunday, March 14, 12:00 pm, Monday,
March 15, 7:30 pm, Sunday, March 21, 7:00 pm
*
Farmingville *
USA, 2003, 79 min.
The chilling
racially-motivated attempted murders of two Mexican day
laborers catapults the Long Island town of Farmingville into
national headlines, exposing a frontline of the new border
wars: suburbia. Blending the stories of town residents and day
laborers, this bilingual, cinema verité documentary reveals
the human impact of national policies that can lead to fear,
isolation, racism and violence. The filmmakers capture first
hand the voices of people for whom immigration in the new
global economy is not an abstract debate, but a reality of
daily life. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2004
Sundance Film Festival and the Premio Mesquite Long
Documentary Award from CineFestival in San Antonio.
Screenings: Tuesday, March 16, 10:15 pm, Thursday, March 18,
8:00 pm, Saturday, March 20, 3:30 pm
* Kill Me Tender
*
Spain, 2003, 98 min.
The delightful Ingrid
Rubio (Todas las Azafatas Van al Cielo) stars as Maribel, a
pretty, young woman who goes to Barcelona to work in her
sister Angela's S&M club. When the elderly widower Nestor
expresses his love for her, Maribel sees this as a quick road
to wealthy widowhood...especially if she gives Nestor's heart
a run for it's money. When Nestor fails to kick the bucket,
however, Maribel enlists the aid of ex-legionnaire Manolo, an
insurance salesman with a thing for bunny costumes. A black
comedy full of pain, pleasure and wicked plot twists. For
mature audiences. Screenings: Friday, March 19, 9:45 pm,
Saturday, March 20, 8:00 pm
* Lugares Comunes
*
Spain/Argentina, 2003, 112 min
As a professor of
literature, Fernando Robles has spent a career teaching others
how to teach. His happy family life in Buenos Aires is
upended, however, when he learns that he is being forced into
retirement. Can a man whose ideals are formed by the great
thinkers of the past cope in the modern world of progress?
Legendary actor Federico Luppi (Tiempo de Revancha, El
Espinazo del Diablo) and Spanish actress Mercedes Sampietro
(La Ultima Rosa, La Blanca Paloma) star in this tragicomic
story of life, love and literature. From the director of
Tiempo de Revanche and Martin (Hache). Screenings: Sunday,
March 14, 8:00 pm, Monday, March 15, 9:45 pm, Sunday, March
21, 6:00 pm
* El Misterio
del Trinidad
*
Mexico, 2003, 107 min.
Juan is the illegitimate
son of Joaquin, an elderly engineer who spent his life
obsessively searching for a sunken 18th Century Spanish
galleon. When Joaquin dies, he wills his boat to Juan.
Joaquin's legal heirs, however, want the boat back. Before
they can find him, however, Juan sets off to find the Spanish
galleon himself. Starring Eduardo Palomo
(Kingpin, Corazon Salvaje, Cronica de un Desayuno, La Mujer de
Benjamin) in one of his final roles. Also starring Rebecca
Jones, Alejandro Parodi and Guillermo Gil. Written by Garcia
Agraz and Carlos Cuaron (co-writer of y tu mama tambien).
Nominated for Best Foreign Spanish Film at the 2004
Spanish Goya awards. For mature audiences. Screenings: Sunday,
March 14, 4:00 pm, Thursday, March 18, 7:00 pm, Sunday,
March 21, 4:00 pm
* Nicotina
*
Mexico/Argentina, 2003, 93 min.
Diego Luna (y tu
mama tambien, Frida), Marta Belaustegui and Jesus Ochoa
(Asesino en Serio, El Segundo Aire) star in this stylish
Tarantinoesque caper film about a computer geek who plans to
give the access code to a Swiss bank's computer to a Russian
mobster in exchange for diamonds. Screen heartthrob Luna stars
as Lolo, a computer geek who thinks diamonds will help him woo
the beautiful neighbor he is spying on via webcam. His plan is
discovered, however, and suddenly everybody wants in on the
action. Computers get hacked, people get whacked and criminals
smoke like there's no tomorrow in this bloody and beguiling
film. For mature audiences. Screening: Tuesday, March 16,
8:00 pm
* El Nominado *
Chile, 2003,
100 min.
The year is 2006 and media corporations have
saturated the TV landscape with so many reality shows that
ratings are starting to drop. Their new show "Bajo Tierra,"
which puts twelve sexy young people in an underground bunker
in the Andes is a huge hit until one of the "castmembers"
takes the others hostage and begins killing them on TV. Is
this a national crisis or ratings to die for? The stellar
multinational cast includes Juleta Cardinali, Francisca
Merino, Delfina Guzman, Sebastian Layseca and screen hunks
Christian de la Fuente (Basic) and Rene Lavan (Azúcar Amarga,
One Life to Live). This will be the film's World Premiere! For
mature audiences. Screening: Thursday, March 18, 7:30 pm,
Saturday, March 20, 9:45 pm
* Radio Favela: Oma Onda
No Ar *
Brazil, 2003, 107 min.
Inspired by a true
story, Radio Favela is an uplifting and musically-charged
story about a pirate radio station in Bello Horizante,
Brazil's third largest city. Serving as a voice of the people,
Jorge and his friends confront the issues of the day: police
brutality, a racist educational system, corrupt politicians,
poverty and the lure of crime as a career path for the youth.
Needless to say, this draws the attention of local officials
who are set on busting Jorge and shutting down the station.
Jorge's sassy anti-establishment sound bites and a soundtrack
featuring great Brazilian hip hop, soul and funk make this
film a winner. For mature audiences. Screenings: Saturday,
March 13, 5:00 pm, Saturday, March 20, 5:00 pm, Sunday, March
21, 1:30 pm
* La Virgen de la Lujuria
*
Mexico/Spain/Portugal, 2001, 110 min.
Mexican film
legend Arturo Ripstein's 24th film is a stylized allegory of
politics and power set in 1940s Mexico. Luis Felipe Tovar (De
la Calle, Todo el Poder, Men with Guns, The Mexican) stars as
Ignacio "Nacho" Jurado, a waiter in the Café Ofelia whose main
comfort outside of his demeaning job consists of a strange
collection. He falls for an opium-addicted, alcoholic
prostitute named Lola (Ariadna Gil, Belle Epoque), who has
been cast off by local masked wrestler Gardenia Wilson
(Alberto Estrella). Lola returns Nacho's affection with
sadistic cruelty and humiliation. Meanwhile, a group of exiled
Spanish Republicans in the café plot to kill Francisco Franco.
Can Nacho win Lola's heart by killing Franco himself? A sultry
noir melodrama written by Ripstein's wife and collaborator Paz
Alicia Garciadiego. For mature audiences. Screenings:
Saturday, March 13, 9:45 pm, Wednesday, March 17, 4:00
pm, Friday, March 19, 7:00 pm, Sunday, March 21, 10:00
pm
Tickets for screenings are $8 General Admission and
$6 for students/members. Call for group rate
information. Purchase your tickets today at Madstone Theaters
Hazard Center box office. Visit our ticket page for more
information: http://www.sdlatinofilm.com/tick.html
For
a complete list of all of the celebrities, short films and
guest filmmakers attending SDLFF 2004, please visit: http://www.sdlatinofilm.com/films.html.
Visiones
Featuring San Diego's Taco Shop Poets
Screens at the San
Diego Latino Film Festival
Produced & Directed by Paul
Espinosa
Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 6:00
pm
Visiones: Latino
Art and Culture is a collection of stories filmed
around the country, capturing rich stories on theater, music,
dance, spoken word and the visual arts. The first hour
of this three-part PBS documentary series will be featured at
this year's San Diego Latino Film Festival. Hour One
looks at theater, spoken word and performance art of Latinos
living in the United States today. In San Diego,
Producer/Director Paul Espinosa captures the Taco Shop Poets
as they take their art to the people. In New York,
Producer John Valadez introduces us to the works of both new
and veteran Nuyorican spoken word artists; Natatcha Estebanez
produces a segment on actress Miriam Colón and her Puerto
Rican Traveling Theater. In San Francisco, we journey with
producer Gustavo Vazquez into the space of cutting edge
performance art with Guillermo Gomez-Peña. Finally, we
look at the new generation of Teatro Campesino founded during
the United Farmworkers Struggle.
Visiones: Latino Art and
Culture is produced by Galán Incorporated and the
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, in
association with Latino Public Broadcasting and the
Independent Television Service. The series is produced
and executive produced by Hector Galán.
Featuring the
Taco Shop Poets live at Madstone Theatres, Visiones: Hour One
screens on Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 6:00 pm as part of New
American Visions on Screen #6.
For additional
information visit the San Diego Latino Film Festival website
at http://www.sdlatinofilm.com/films.html
or call (619) 230-1938.
Smokin’ Mirrors Studios and Ediciones Arte
Riff-Raff extend LA-area residents a cordial
invitiation to a benefit fundraiser and birthday
salute in honor of poet/activist raulrsalinas, a granduncle of Chicano literature who has
shared podiums and microphones with everyone from Pedro Pietri
and Miguel Piñero to Oscar Zeta Acosta and Ernesto Cardenal.
Join us for an unforgettable evening titled:
FROM
BEBOP TO HIP-HOP:
A
Latino Spoken Word/Music/Media Celebration in Honor of
Literary
Pioneers, Cultural
Warriors
and Community Elders
&
Birthday
Salute to Legendary
XicanIndio
Poet raúlrsalinas
(b.
March 17, 1934)
Sunday,
6:30 PM
March 21st, 2004
Self-Help
Graphics
3802
E. Cesar Chavez
Los
Angeles, CA 90063
$5
Donation
For
more info call 323.888.9660. The event will be videotaped for
a documentary project on Raul's life in jazz, beat poetics,
the American Indian Movment, prison activism and workshops for
youth in and out of juvenile detention facilities as well as
community centers nationwide. Special guests to include
members of Culture Clash and spoken word artists from Basement
Nation.
I'm currently preparing The
First Film and Video Festival of Venezuelans in NYC
at
the Venezuela's Consulate next July.
We’re accepting
submissions now!
1) Send two copies of your
work one in VHS and one in Mini DV.
2) A short
synopsis along with your resume .
3) Describe the time of
the movie and type.
Send your videos to:
America
Maldonado.
140-31
246th st #2
Rosedale NY 11422
Hi: My name
is Miguel Mas; I am Writer and Director of a 30 minutes
short film called 2+2=5=1, which will be
presented in many Film Festivals. (Los
Angeles Latino Film Festival, Sundance, Mexico Cinema, Mar del
Plata Film Festival, Murcia Film Festival). We have a
very well known actor Fernando Carrillo. We shot in Panasonic
DUX-100 and are now in pre-production and I have a deadline to
finish to present to the L.A. Latino Film Festival on April 2,
2004 So with the editor that I have we are not going to be
finish for that deadline, because he can just work at night.
So now I am looking for Editor who can work with
me during the day and some nights, we already started, so we
don't have to put all tapes in the sistem. This is an
independent project, so payment is deferred. We'll provided
food.
Send me a tape and resume to
680 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90026. And
if you are in the Film School, is fine too, you also can let
me know and send me the resume through e-mail at Mimas@prodigy.net. Call
213.250.9162 / 323.365.5610. Need someone ASAP
Miguel Mas
Director/President of
Mas & More Entertainment
680
Echo Park Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90026 /
213.250.9162 /
mimas@prodigy.net
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