Cuban Actor Jorge Perugorria Present For Opening Night Film Horn Of Plenty. HFFNY Honors Directors Luis Ospina, Santiago Alvarez and Humberto Solas, Masters of the Craft. More than 40 Films from 12 Latin American Countries. Films From All Genres For All Ages Panels and Events are Free and Open to the Public
New York, NY -- Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) celebrates its tenth celebration with premieres of awful advancing and affecting films from and about Latin America and Latinos in the U.S. Programs for all ages will be apparent throughout assorted locations in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. Quad Cinema (34 W. 13 St) will appearance films from April 17 to 23. Other venues are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, Ida K. Lang Recital Hall at Hunter College (CUNY), The Bronx Museum of the Arts. HFFNY welcomes a new affiliation with Queens Theatre in the Park.
The anniversary will activate with a appropriate presentation sponsored by TD Bank at Queens Theatre in the Park on April 14 alleged Short Time! a alternative of four shorts by adolescent filmmakers from Spain, Dominican Republic and the U.S.
Opening night begins at 6:30 pm, Thursday, April 16 at The New York Directors Guild Theater with a accession followed by the New York premiere of Juan Carlos Tabio's latest film, Horn of Plenty (El cuerno de la abundancia), starring Jorge Perugorría, champ of the Special Jury Prize at Cartagena Film Festival and Third Coral and Best Screenplay at Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana
HFFNY Honors Directors Luis Ospina, Santiago Alvarez and Humberto Solas, Masters of the Craft
Since its inception, HFFNY has accustomed and answer some of the a lot of acclaimed Latin American filmmakers in the industry. Continuing with this tradition, HFFNY pays admiration to three acclaimed Latin American directors: Santiago Alvarez and Humberto Solás (both Cuban), and Luis Ospina (Colombian).
In a affairs blue-blooded The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Alvarez, four of his adept films: LJB, Now, Hanoi Martes 13, and 79 Spring Times will be presented at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. Known for his avant-garde genius, Alvarez was an affecting amount in the development of Cuban cinema. Even afterwards his death, he charcoal the country's capital documentary filmmaker.
Stranger Than Fiction: A Tribute to Luis Ospina. A difficult-to-label artist, Colombian administrator Luis Ospina manages to capsize the accustomed norms of storytelling and documentary filmmaking. Five of his films will be shown. On Sat., April 18, 7:10 pm, A Paper Tiger NY Premiere), Sunday, April 19, 1 message one of his a lot of claimed documentaries, Andres Caicedo Unos Pocos Buenos amigos, preceded by a Latin American classic, Vampires of Poverty, will be apparent at Quad Cinema. At 5 pm, NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will present The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo. Tuesday, April 21st Breath of Life will accept its NY Premiere at Quad Cinema. This is Ospina's additional affection and champ for Best Film and Best Actor at Cartagena Film Festival and Best Film and Director at Bogota Film Festival.
Remembering Humberto Solás, 1941-2008. Solás died endure September at the age of 66. His films reflect a humanism that deals with the seek for a civic and Latin American character accompanying to the ethics of peace, accord and amusing justice. Two of his works will be apparent during the festival: A Successful Man, the aboriginal Cuban cine to be nominated for an Oscar, and his abbreviate Adela, his endure film.
This year's HFFNY premieres films from all genres for all ages alignment from adventurous comedies, blur noir and political thrillers to the access of music and arguable issues that play with the continued abandoned political and amusing memories.
HFFNY premieres plan of new filmmakers with abounding breadth appearance such as: La Milagrosa (Colombia-Mexico), Audience Award almsman at Huelva Film Festival; La Sangre Brota (Argentina), champ of the Young Critic Award at Cannes Film Festival; Gasolina (Guatemala), champ of Horizontes Latinos Award at San Sebastian Film Festival; Desierto Adentro (Mexico), champ for Best Film in Guadalajara, Mar del Plata and Best Cinematography at Havana Film Festival, Cuba; and Filmefobia (Brazil) Best Film at Brasilia Film Festival.
The Festival will aswell acceptable arch filmmakers who accept alternate in years accomplished to appearance their latest work, such as Colombian administrator Lisandro Duque and his "serious comedy", Los actores del conflicto, the Audience Award almsman at Cartagena Film Festival 2008 and, Jacobo Morales, the allegorical Puerto Rican administrator and abecedarian with his aftereffect And God Created Them II.
Music and ball are active armament in films like La Mala, Mare Our Love Story (Brazil), Party Time, a Puerto Rican ball aggressive film, assuming the abundant catechism of life, "Salsa or New Wave?"
HFFNY aswell provides an aberrant befalling to see new documentaries from and about Latin America: 1973 Revoluciones por minuto (Chile) based on the play The Last Hours of Salvador Allende, Barefoot Ballet (Brazil), The Golden Age (U.S.A) and Titon de La Habana a Guantanamera by Mirtha Ibarra (Cuba).
The Festival allotment to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sat., April 18th 12:35 message with Latin American Films For Children featuring La Leyenda de la Nahuala, an activated blur from Mexico for ages 5-12.
Panels and Free Events
Running alongside to the screenings, there will be chargeless panels at King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU and Hunter College. These dialogues are conducted by some of the a lot of arresting admiral and academics in their corresponding fields. The panels are: New Views (Nuevas Miradas) at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, April 20, 7:00 pm. Tanya Valette, administrator of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV), will be presenting the afterward award-winning films from EICTV: After the screening, Ms. Valette, assistant and filmmaker Russell Porter and Film London's Chairman, Sandy Lieberson, will allocution about the academy and what new visions the acceptance are creating for Latin American Cinema. A accession will follow.
Once again, HFFNY will be accommodating with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College for a appropriate advertise of Puerto Rican Cinema. On April 21 at 5 message at Hunter College's Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, allegorical administrator and abecedarian Jacobo Morales will present the New York premiere his blur God Created Them II. At 7:30pm, a console blue-blooded Cinema of Puerto Rico: Challenges and Implications of a Rising Cinema will focus on the cogent advance of the Puerto Rican blur industry. Participants cover filmmakers Jacobo Morales, Lilian Rosado, Pedro Perez Rosado and Juanma Fernandez. Soledad Romero, date added and assistant at Queens College, CUNY will be the moderator.
HFFNY is bringing the agitative soccer documentary, The Golden Age to Queens Theatre in the Park on April 22nd. At The Bronx Museum of the Arts on April 17th the anniversary presents the New York premiere of Tengo lo que tenía que tener, a documentary about Cuban accompanist Xiomara Laugart and, Pinchos y Rolos, a agreeable about a beautician in Washington Heights -followed by a affair with abide music. Both contest are chargeless and accessible to the public.
The presenting sponsor of HFFNY 09 is WNBC - Telemundo 47. The Maritime and The Bowery are the Festival's official hotels. Additional advocacy is provided by TD Bank, El Diario La Prensa, WBAI, The National Arts Club, King Juan Carlos I Center of Spain at NYU, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CUNY), Queens Theatre in the Park, NY Remezcla, LART, AlterNa Latino, CL Lounge, Giovanna's Restaurant, Ill Bucco, Lex Park Studio, Rockmedia, Divino Magazine, and Copacabana Grill.
HFFNY is fabricated accessible with accessible funds from the NYS Council on the Arts, a accompaniment agency and supported, in part, by accessible funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Mayor Bloomberg's Latin Media and Entertainment Commission (LMEC) supports the anniversary and it is included in the city's Immigrant Heritage Week.
HFFNY is a activity of American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (AFLFC), a non-profit alignment architecture cultural bridges amid the U.S. and Cuba through programs in the arts. The anniversary is directed by Carole Rosenberg, President of AFLFC, alive with an controlling committee, advisors, a baby adherent agents and committed volunteers who accomplish this activity accessible and sponsors and supporters who accept in its merit.
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