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[ NOTE: This screening is a "NALIP MEMBERS ONLY" benefit and thus only open to currently vested, paid member of NALIP – RSVPs will be cross-referenced against our latest membership database. Participation on NALIP-NY’s listserve alone does not constitute paid membership ]
NALIP-New York, in association with Emerging Pictures and NetFlix, cordially invite you to a special advance screening of the award-winning (WGA / SXSW / Santa FE) documentary “COWBOY DEL AMOR” on Tuesday, February 7th at 7:30PM and Wednesday, February 8th at 8PM.
View Trailer HERE
Download the Invite HERE  [includes venue/RSVP information - seating limited - arrive early]
 Cowboy Del Amor opens in limted theater engagement on February 10th at Cinema Village in NYC.
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 "COWBOY DEL AMOR"
“COWBOY DEL AMOR” is a verité-style documentary comedy about a cowboy turned matchmaker who can’t manage his own love life. It follows self-proclaimed “Cowboy Cupid” Ivan Thompson, as he finds Mexican brides for disillusioned American men searching for the perfect wife. His clients include Rick, an ex-marine long-distance truck driver, and Lee, a hopeful 70-year-old Vietnam Veteran. They willingly pay $3,000 for a 600-mile bus ride into the heart of Mexico in a search for true love.
For Ivan, love knows no borders. Ivan married a Mexican woman himself —
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| 90 Min / Documentary / 2006 / USA / English - Spanish |
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then divorced her when she turned the tables on him. But one matrimonial mishap can’t corral this cowboy. He might not look like he knows much about love, but his success rate proves that he just might. His strategies are quirky and entertaining, from posting ads in the Mexican papers to checking his clients’ pulse. As Ivan says, anyone can find a wife, as long as they have the “huevos” to do something about it. Love doesn’t just stroll up and say ‘Howdy!’ |
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
MICHÈLE OHAYON is an award-winning director, writer and producer. Her second feature-length documentary COLORS STRAIGHT UP received nominations for the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement and the IFP Spirit Award. The documentary received the Golden Spire Award for the Arts at the San Francisco International Film Festival, as well as 13 national film awards. COLORS STRAIGHT UP is being broadcast nationally on PBS and all over the world. In 1984, she received the Israeli Best Film Award for PRESSURE, one of her early dramatic films on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Award-winning Filmmaker, Michèle Ohayon |
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In 1987, she moved to Los Angeles, where she directed a succession of critically acclaimed dramatic and documentary features. The award-winning feature length documentary IT WAS A WONDERFUL LIFE explores the plight of upper middle-class women who live out of their cars and become the "hidden homeless". Narrated by Jodie Foster, the film aired nationally on PBS and OXYGEN. IT WAS A WONDERFUL LIFE won the Gold Award at the Houston Film Festival and an IDA nomination.
For COWBOY DEL AMOR, Ohayon has received both the Audience and Grand Jury Awards for DocumentaryFeature at SXSW, Best Documentary at the 2005 Santa Fe Film Festival, and IDA and WGA nominations. Michèle has also produced and directed commercials, episodic television and music videos. For her body of work, Michèle received the 1996 and the 1998 Artist’s Grant from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and was recognized for her fiction writing in the Chesterfield Writing Competition 2000. Born in Casablanca and raised in Israel, Michèle graduated from Tel Aviv University (Film & Television).
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Edwin Pagán, Chapter President
epagan@pagan-images.com
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Special NALIP-New York Advance Screening of “COWBOY DEL AMOR”