2018 LATINO AND NATIVE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL AT SCSU Saturday, March 24 - Opening Day 10 am-2 pm Dedicated to Native American Films (each film followed by discussion) 10 am-10:15 am The BlackBerry and The Firebeetle (La Mora y el Cocuyo). Isaías Pérez. Venezuela. 2017 10 min. Animated short film inspired by a story from the Pemón Native American People of Venezuela, about the origin of fireflies. SpoKen in the particular Native Tribal language with English subtitles. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhnhlX14lGc 10:20 am-10:50 am Namuy Nu Piro (Our Land). Antonio Dorado. Colombia. 25 min Documentary. Luis, a young indigenous Misak (Guambiano) who has migrated from his community to the city of Cali (Colombia), is about to finish his studies at the University. In the film, the young man shares a portrait of his family and reflects on the idiosyncrasy of his people. Finally he will have to decide if he returns to his territory or he integrates as a professional in the city. SpoKen in the particular Native Tribal language with English subtitles. No trailer. 11:00 am-11:35 am Girls of Uchituu (Las Niñas de Uchitúu). Helena Salguero. Colombia. 28 min. Documentary. Sonia and Yelitza, two Wayuu girls linKed by blood via their maternal line, grow and learn in the midst of the ancient traditions of their indigenous group and the presence of practices that the white foreigner has brought, putting at risK the preservation of the ancestral culture and leading to oblivion the traditions of their ethnicity. SpoKen in the particular Native Tribal language with English subtitles. Trailers :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxtYllmfLMQ 11:40 am-12:15 am A Modern Pioneer in the Cherokee Nation (Wilma Mankiller). 1994. 28 min. Host Marcia Alvar speaks with Wilma ManKiller, Principle Chief of the CheroKee Nation from 1983-1995. Ms. ManKiller discusses her experiences as related in her booK, "ManKiller: A Chief and Her People." She describes her early political activism as well as her eventual return to her home (OKlahoma) which led to her involvement in the CheroKee tribe. Also includes her election as tribal chief as well as her time in office, and, now that she is stepping down, her reflections on the experience. No trailer. 12:20 am- 1:55 pm The Cherokee Word for Water. Charlie Soap & Kristina Kiehl. USA. 2013 92 min. The Cherokee Word for Water is a feature-length motion picture that tells the story of the worK that led Wilma ManKiller to become the first modern female Chief of the CheroKee Nation. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h5TsMBO_nQ 2:30 pm-6:30 pm Dedicated to Puerto Rican FilmS (each film followed by discussion) 2:30 pm-3:20 pm Romeo y Romeo. Luis Caballero. 2015. 48 min. The story of two young teenagers in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the discovery of love through fairy tales and sKateboards. Confronted by their desires these two teenagers confront the religious and social repressions that condemn the possibilities of accepting their homosexuality. This short film presents the social differences that cross the country at how religion responds to social status. Romeo and Julio are from traditional and fundamentalist families where the only salvation is to disguise themselves in order to unleash their freedom. A grandfather (interpreted by Ephraim Lopez Neri) with dementia, is the voice of truth and guides a love, that as in Shakespeare, is divided by status and pride. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92QpUd1-SQ 3:30 pm-4:30 pm TreS MundoS de MarcoS. Flora Pérez Garay. 52 min. When a fugitive takes refuge in a small town, it ignites the passion of a group of filmmakers who want to discover his real story and his past. In the process of wanting to bring MarK’s story to the screen, they reveal more of him and each one of the protagonists than they were supposed to. This is a story of a criminal and of those that want to expose the effects of justice, love, and solidarity in the transformation of a human being. No tráiler. 4:45 pm-6:15 pm La Cultura de la Ignorancia (The Culture of Ignorance). Paco Vázquez. Puerto Rico. 90 min Explores the role played by the Puerto Rican voter in the economic disaster in which the island of Puerto Rico is in. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFLDOuwKY1U&t=1s 6:30 pm-8:00 pm - Reception & Panel DiScuSSion ¿Que Será de Puerto Rico/Borinquen? (What will become of Puerto Rico/Borinquen?) A diScuSSion on the unprecedented diSaSter in Puerto Rico and the exoduS of Puerto RicanS to Connecticut. 8:00 pm-10:00 pm MuSical Entertainment – Featuring: Roy Brown & CarloS Santiago Buitrago Monday, March 26 9:10 am-9:35 am 25 Horas (25 HourS). Carlos Barba. Cuba. 2017. 25 min. A woman returns to Cuba after several years of absence, to take care of her father, who is already old and ill, … and has a purpose that she does not Know about. She discovers a different country from the one she left. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PEl7r7DZeg 9:45 am-10:00 am Para Construir Otra Casa (To Build Another HouSe). Eliecer Jiménez. Cuba/USA. 2017. 15 min. Humberto Calzada left Cuba with his family when he was sixteen years old, shortly after the Castro takeover. The young Calzada matured, evolved, and lay roots in Miami all the while attempting, through his art, to salvage and reconstruct his lost home and homeland. This documentary, “Para construir otra Casa” (“To build another home”) endeavors to explain how his personal and spiritual loss, as remembered or imagined from afar, has affected his art and his imagery. No Trailer 10:10 am-10:40 am Girls of Uchituu (Las Niñas de Uchitúu). Helena Salguero. Colombia. 28 min. Documentary. Sonia and Yelitza, two Wayuu girls linKed by blood via their maternal line, grow and learn in the midst of the ancient traditions of their indigenous group and the presence of practices that the white foreigner has brought, putting at risK the preservation of the ancestral culture and leading to oblivion the traditions of their ethnicity. SpoKen in the particular Native Tribal language with English subtitles Trailers :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxtYllmfLMQ 10:45 am-10:55 am Tango Dreams. Steven Salgado. USA. 2016. 10 min. The story of a 70-year-old man who wants to learn to dance tango to make his 70-year-old fiancée’s dreams come true for their wedding night, but along the way we all discover the value of dreams. Trailer https://vimeo.com/194455523 11:15 am-12:30 pm Amor Con Tufo a Colonia (Love with a Colonial Scent). Joelle Laguer. Documental. 64 min. The film uses Puerto Rico’s colonial situation with the USA, the island’s banKruptcy and breath taking vistas as a bacKdrop to focus on the debate over gay marriage on the island. No Trailer 1:15 pm-1:35 pm Fifi Patelito GoeS to the DMV. Salvador Bolívar. USA. 2016. 15 min. Fifi Patelito, a sweet and well-meaning, but horribly misunderstood immigrant, is worKing hard to achieve his version of the American Dream. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4peoMnafc8 1:40 pm-1:46 pm Vicenta. Carla Valencia Dávila. Ecuador. 2014. 5 min. Animation. A woman from the countryside migrates from Bolivia to Chile where she washes clothes to earn a living. She faces poverty by herself while becoming a single mother. Years later, during Pinochet`s military dictatorship her elder son is detained and becomes a political prisoner. Trailer https://vimeo.com/82428425 2:00 pm-3:15 pm To be determined 3:25 pm-4:40 pm DiaS Y Noches Entre Guerra Y Paz (Days and Nights Between War and Peace). Uli Stelzner. Columbia. 2017. 75 min. Documentary The film, forcefully, gathers with the memory of so many deaths and the paradox of a war, so present in everyday life and so absent from the future. Zero hour, in Colombia, arrives on October 2, 2016, when the peace process is momentarily truncated and uncertainty takes over the country. However, that same day a new collective is born, …the will, of “almost all”, to no longer accept the path of dead-end streets, sharing the risKs of peace and not giving others the power to decide the circumstances of one’s own life. Days and Nights Between War and Peace portrays crucial moments – unforgettable, irrevocable moments – of the history of Colombia, in all directions of time. Trailer https://vimeo.com/215744705 4:45 pm-6:00 pm No Le Digas a Nadie (Don’t Tell Anyone). MiKaela Shwer. USA. 71 Min. In an environment where silence is often seen as necessary for survival, 24 year old Angy Rivera steps out of the shadows to share her parallel journey of being undocumented and sexually abused, an ordeal all too common in her community. Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) follows immigrant activist Angy’s personal story from poverty in rural Colombia to the front page of The New York Times as she becomes a beacon in a movement for national change. Trailer https://vimeo.com/116258684 6:15 pm-7:45 pm Ya No ES AnteS. Léster Hamlet. Cuba. 2016. 95 min. A former couple, separated since their teen-age years by immigration, meet again in Cuba four decades later. This will be their opportunity to see how much they have changed, and ascertain whether the love promises they made to each other forty years earlier were fulfilled or not.