XXI LATIN AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2007

Matinee Films for NCState listed at the bottom!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 •2:00, 3:30, 4:10 p.m.

Duke University • Richard White Auditorium

Childhood & Power Matinee short films!

2:00 p.m.
Devil’s Miner-USA
Directors: Keif Davidson & Richard Ladkani
A portrait of two brothers who work deep in the silver mines of Cerro Rico, Bolivia. Raised without a father and living on the slopes of the mine, 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother must work to support their family and afford supplies vital to their education.
Winner of 7 Awards, including: Chicago Film Festival Silver Hugo Best Documentary & Humanitarian Award, Mexico City Festival
Nominated for Best Documentary, European Film Academy
Nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, Director’s Guild of America
82 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, 2005.

3:30 p.m.
Camino a la Escuela/The Road to School-Argentina
Director: Inés Dussel
Four students of a Buenos Aires public school share their thoughts on life, school and the future, giving the viewer a glimpse into their backgrounds, biographies and dreams.
30 minutes, Spanish with English Subtitles, 2005.

4:10 p.m.
Education in Resistance- USA/Mexico
Chiapas Media Project/Promedios
Education in Resistance looks at the education system that the Mexican government has been providing to indigenous people in Chiapas, and why they decided to create an autonomous educational system.
21 minutes, Tzeltal and Spanish with English subtitles, 2000.

NC State • 2:00 2:40 3:45 p.m.

Campus Cinema, Witherspoon Student Center

2:00 p.m.
El Día Que Me Quieras/The Day You’ll Love Me- Argentina
Director: Leandro Katz
El Día que Me Quieras is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors. Freddy Alborta, the photographer of the famous image, gives an interview as part of this documentary investigation of the power of photography. The film provokes a sense of loss and mourning, grounded, however, in Che’s placement in the context of Latin American intellectual life.
Coral Prize, 1998 Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana.
Best Documentary, 1998 International Film Festival of Valdivia, Chile.
30 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.1999.

2:40 pm
La Danza del Espejo/Mirror Dance- USA/Cuba
Directors: Frances Mc Elroy & María Teresa Rodríguez
Identical Twins, Margarita and Ramona de Saá, grew up to become acclaimed ballerinas with the National Ballet of Cuba. Once inseparable, their relationship deteriorated as one sister left for America and the other embraced the Cuban Revolution. Mirror Dance is the story of two women forever linked by birth and dance but struggling to overcome a deep rift between sisters and nations alike.
Winner of CINE Golden Eagle Award, 2005
Winner of First Place for Documentary Excellence, Society of Professional Journalists, Greater Philadelphia Chapter
Winner of 2006 Imagen Award finalist for Best Documentary for Television or Film
54 minutes, English, Spanish with English Subtitles, 2005.

3:45 pm
Our Brand is Crisis-USA
Director: Rachel Boynton
For decades, U.S. strategists-for-hire have been quietly molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections around the world. This documentary is an astounding look at one of their campaigns and its earth-shattering aftermath. With flabbergasting access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, we watch how the consultants’, including James Carville, marketing strategies shape the relationship between a leader and his people. The film is a shocking example of how the all-American art of branding can affect the “spreading of democracy” overseas.
Winner of International Documentary Association
Nominated for Truer than Fiction Award, Independent Spirit Award
87 minutes, English, 2005.

NC State • 7:00 p.m.

Campus Cinema, Witherspoon Student Center
Opening remarks by Tamera Marko
An evening with director Guita Schyfter

Las Caras de la Luna/The Faces of the Moon- Mexico
Director: Guita Schyfter
An all-female jury at a Mexico City film festival brings together women
from different nationalities and generations – united, in fact, only by
the cinema. The comic, dramatic and melodramatic elements of this film lie
in the need to find common ground in awarding prizes for women's films. In
the process they are obliged to get to know one another, come to terms
with some truths about their profession, and face some searching questions
about women's perspectives – particularly in love and the arts.
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Silver Ariel Award, Mexico
112 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, 2001.
Director Guita Schyfter will conduct a Q&A after the screening.