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Hi Latin American Cinema lovers!
This year’s season of Latin American Cinema and Song is over and we’d like to thank our fantastic audiences — it wouldn’t have been the same without you — and our fabulous sponsors for all of their support this year!
Whether you dipped into our month of screenings at the Instituto Cervantes, our star-lit Cine 428 at the Sydney Fringe, the peña (big night of Latin-American bohemian fun) in Bankstown or the packed night exploring the issues around human rights at Macquarie University, we’ve been in so many places this year you can’t possibly have missed us.
And even as we’re catching our breath after this year’s dizzying array of events, we’ve partnered up to bring you two more servings of Latin American film before the year’s out, Growing Change and a free day of documentary films at a Sydney University’s conference on Indigenous Knowledge.
Get Inside Venezuela’s food revolution!
Thurs 28th Nov 7pm at Palace Norton Street Cinemas
Growing Change | Sydney Premiere
Do you remember food riots in 2008 that accompanied the sudden spike in food prices around the world? For Sydney filmmaker Simon Cunich, this was a crisis which pushed him to find out more about the way food is produced, a search which took him to Venezuela. Cunich’s Growing Change shows a Venezuela revitalising its agriculture, its fishing techniques and other methods almost from scratch. Taking the viewer from fishing on the open sea, to cocoa farmers learning to make their own chocolate for export, this documentary aims to open your eyes to new ways of thinking about the way food gets from the soil to your plate.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Cunich. Entry is by donation, but if you want to book a spot you can email growingchangefilm@gmail.com or call 0413 031 108.
Check out the films’ trailer here
Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia
A Day of Indigenous Film at Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia
Sat 10th Dec 1pm at Sydney University, New Law Building
The Latin American Film Festival has been invited to program a free final day of film to cap off Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent. This conference draws Indigenous educators from Argentina, Chile and Mexico to Sydney, as well as their local counterparts. As its grand public finale, the conference is putting on a long afternoon of free film in Sydney University’s flash new Law School. If eight hours of free documentary is the sort of thing that fires you up, the program starts at the Sydney University New Law Building from 1pm.
Films include various short films from Australian Western Desert filmmaker Curtis Taylor, along with director Genevieve Grieves presenting her film, Lani’s Story. From Chile will be screening Wallmapu, from Mapuche director, Jeannette Paillán, that traces the complex problem of present day territorial demands by the Mapuche in Chile. From Colombia will be screening Elderly Words - Colombian Indigenous film directors of the Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kogui communities, travel from the seashore to the snowy mountains, the territory of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which, according to them, is the “heart of the world”.
Entry is Free
Chilean Surf Film Giveaway
Win a double-pass to see ‘El Mar, Mi Alma’
Australian filmmaker Stephen Jones and Chilean born Tatiana Velasco have launched their much anticipated cultural surf film ‘El mar, mi alma‘ and its heading to Sydney next week!
Shot entirely on 16mm, the film captures the essence of coastal Chile via a surfing journey led by Dave Rastovich joined by some of the worlds top surfers including Joel Parkinson, Dane Ward, Chris Del Moro, Crystal Thornburg and Chile’s very own Ramon Navarro, Diego medina and Cristian Merello. Director Stephen Jones describes the film as a visual tone poem, a blend of image and music, featuring cinematic surfing sequences interwoven with incredible landscapes, insightful commentary, and the movements of the cast on a unique surfing journey.
We have a couple of double-passes for each of the Sydney screenings at The Chauvel in Paddington & Manly Cinemas for the first people to email info info@sydneylatinofilmfestival.org with a single sentence on what you love about surfing. Please also mention your preferred cinema for the winning tickets.
Sydney Tour Dates
30 Nov – Manly – Manly Cinemas – 8:30 pm – ($18)
1 Dec – Paddington – Chauvel Cinema – 8pm – ($18)
Book tickets online here
Film review
Dont miss out on the rare opportunity to see this beautiful surf film on the cinema screen!
Community News
ANTATA SANTA MARIA DE IQUIQUE – by Luis AdvisNOVEMBER 26 7.30pm at the Great Hall, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville
Originally commissioned in the 1960s by Chilean New Song Movement group Quilapayún, this work combines folk rhythms with classical music and narrative to relate the historic events of a miners’ strike in Chile and its suppression in 1907. The arrangement is the culmination of 3 years’ work and includes an 18-voice choir, 2 solo singers and 5 musicians playing both traditional folk and classical instruments.
Also Trio Matiz and El Coro will also present a selection of classical and folkloric contemporary songs representing the enormously rich and varied repertoire from across Latin America, including Chile, Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina.
Tickets $20.00/ 15.00 conc. at the door or ring 0419170440/ 0417689150 for info and bookings.
Organized by Casa Latinoamericana and Addison Road Centre
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The Sydney Latin American Film Festival Team
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