Escaramuza & Elena at SF Doc Fest, Co-Presenting

Posted on May 22, 2013 by admin

We’re happy to be co-presenting these two films at SF Doc Fest- which runs from June 6-23 in San Francisco and Santa Cruz.

Elena- Brazil- Dir. Petra Costa 2012 87 Minutes

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood and years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her 7-year-old sister. Two decades later, Petra also an aspiring actress, goes to New York searching for her. She hopes to find her walking in the streets. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.

Balboa Theater/SF  6/7 9PM
Roxie Theater/SF    6/9 7PM & 6/10 9PM
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Escaramuza: Riding From the Heart- USA- Dir. Bill Yahraus 2012 89 Minutes 

Every weekend, at rodeos from Illinois to California, teams of young Mexican-American women, escaramuzas charras, climb onto sidesaddles and weave their galloping horses through high-speed ballets, as heartstopping as the revolutionary-era skirmishes for which they’re named. The documentary follows one such team, Las Azaleas, on their quest to represent California and the United States at the National Charro Championships in Mexico, where to be Charro is to be Mexican.  

Roxie Theater/SF 6/9 5PM &  6/20 7PM
Rio Theater-Santa Cruz 6/22 5PM
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Eduardo Galeano- Talk & Book Signing- May 21- Oakland

Posted on May 20, 2013 by admin

An Evening with EDUARDO GALEANO

“Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History”
Hosted by Miguel Guerrero
Tuesday, May 21, 7:30 pm

In 2010, we had a wonderful documentary that a few of you had a chance to see “Eyes Wide Open, A Voyage of South America Today”. The filmmaker, Gonzalo Arijon, was inspired by his countryman’s book The Open Veins of Latin America, a groundbreaking work by author Eduardo Galeano. This is the same book that Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez presented to President Barack Obama when they first met.

One of Latin America’s most distinguished writers, journalists and historians, Eduardo Galeano is the author of the Memory of Fire Trilogy, Open Veins of Latin America, Days and Nights of Love and War, Walking Words, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Mirrors, and many other works. Born in Montevideo in 1940, Galeano lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for many years before returning to Uruguay. His work has inspired popular and classical music composers from all over the world. He was the recipient of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur.  His admirers include Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Subcomandante Marcos, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, and of course Hugo Chavez.  Eduardo is a man of truly progressive principles.

Where: First Congregational Church of Oakland- 2501 Harrison Street at 27th St., Oakland

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/371186

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La Salsa Cubana – DVD Release Party- May 30 – Mission Cultural Center

Posted on May 17, 2013 by admin


La Salsa Cubana was an audience favorite at the 2011 Cine+Mas SF Latino Film Festival.  We encourage you to come out for the DVD Release party taking place at the Mission Cultural Center on Thursday May 30 at 7:30 PM.

LaSalsaCubanaDVDDirector Eric Joseph Johnson will be in attendance. The celebration will include music, dancing, and performances- in short, you’ll get a taste of casino live!

La Salsa Cubana is the first film to explore Cuban salsa, known as casino, since it appeared in Havana social clubs in the 1950s. With a soundtrack that features Cuba’s all-time greatest musical legends, it follows a dance group from the Guanabacoa neighborhood as they strive against all odds to win the national dance competition.

Screening and Party $13  CLICK HERE http://bit.ly/18QBJ3M or at the Mission Cultural Center Box Office.

If you can’t make it to the screening you can purchase the film online at Amazon, iTunes, and other online retailers.

 

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Call for Entries Extended – June 7

Posted on May 13, 2013 by admin

Cine+Mas SF has extended the call for entries. The deadline is May 17 June 7.  Shorts, features, documentaries, or narrative fiction- all welcome.  The Festival includes films from the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal.

eMail us or call if you have any questions or requests (fee waiver?).

For full details and the form click here: http://bit.ly/2013Entries

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Cine+Más SF ha extendido la convocatoria. La fecha límite es el 17 de mayo 7 de junio. Cortometrajes, largometrajes, documentales o narrativas de ficción todos bienvenidos. El Festival incluye películas de los EE.UU., América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal.

Envíenos un correo electrónico o llame si  tiene cualquier duda o petición (¿exención de cuotas?).

Para más detalles y la ficha de inscripción haga clic aquí: http://bit.ly/2013Entries

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Presentation of Mexican Film “Post Tenebras Lux” May 29-June 2

Posted on May 1, 2013 by admin

Cine+Mas SF is proud to be co-presenting this film with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

The new film by maverick Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas is his most personal and challenging work to date. Post Tenebras Lux (“After darkness, light” in Latin) is a disorienting, kaleidoscopic, and visually stunning vision of a family torn between compassion and violence. It completely divided audiences at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where Reygadas was awarded Best Director. (2012, 120 min, DCP)

May 30, 2013 7:30pm
May 31, 2013 7:30pm
Jun 1, 2013 7:30pm
Jun 2, 2013 2:00pm
Jun 2, 2013 4:30pm

 Screening Room
$10 regular/$8 YBCA member, senior, student, teacher

 

 

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The Undocumented on PBS/KQED, Independent Lens

Posted on April 30, 2013 by admin

Though the immigration debate focuses on the living, most seem to forget those that don’t make it across and end up dying in the desert. The Undocumented by Marco Williams looks at the migrant that doesn’t make it.

Border Patrol agents, Native Americans, smugglers, ranchers, retirees and samaritans form a constellation of people engaged with the Arizona/Mexico border on a daily basis — policing it, inhabiting it, crossing it, working it, making it safer or simply feeling its consequences. But at the center of it all is the migrant.

Airs in the San Francisco Bay Area as of April 29, 2013.

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Shenandoah, Documentary Screening & Conversation April 29

Posted on April 29, 2013 by admin

Shenandoah, a coal-mining town with a proud immigrant past, once fueled America’s industrial revolution. Today, it is a town in decline, and the descendants of yesterday’s European immigrants rub shoulders with the Mexican immigrants of today. Tensions came to a head when four white football players were charged in the beating death of Luis Ramirez, an undocumented Mexican migrant. In the documentary “Shenandoah,” Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer turned director David Turnley creates a deeply felt portrait of a working-class community torn apart by violence. 97 minutes. English.

“It was a tragedy that touched upon several great national themes — the dislocation wrought by fading industry, the turmoil of immigration, the endurance of sports…” — Sam Dolnick, The New York Times

Director David Turnley will hold a question-and-answer session after the film.

Free advance tickets for this event. Free tickets will also be available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis.

Monday, April 29, 6:30 pm

UC Berkeley Campus – 145 Dwinelle Hall

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Blancanieves, Snow White with Spanish Panache

Posted on April 9, 2013 by admin

Blancanieves is a twist on the Snow White fairy tale. This time it is set in 1920s Seville (Spain) and centered on a female bullfighter. This film   won multiple Goya Awards (Spain’s highest film award) and was Spain’s submission for the Oscar’s. Pablo Berger directs and it stars Maribel Verdu (Pan’s Labyrinth, Y Tu Mama Tambien), Daniel Gimenez Cacho (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Bad Education) , and Angela Molina (Live Flesh, Broken Embraces).

It’s an excellent film that will certainly delight.

The film is screening at the Embarcadero Center Cinemas in San Francisco starting April 19th.

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Filly Brown- Opens Nationally – April 19

Posted on April 9, 2013 by admin

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Filly Brown opens on April 19 nationally. Check listings for times at a theater near you. You may recall this was our opening night film at the last edition of the Cine+Mas SF Latino Film Festival back in September.

Congratulations to the cast and crew including directors Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos.  The film stars Gina Rodriguez, Lou Diamond-Phillips, Edward James Olmos, and Jenni Rivera.
Maria Jose ‘Majo’ Tonorio is a tough LA street poet who spits from the heart. After meeting a talented DJ she cuts her first demo under the guidance of a small time hustler more interested in promoting Majo’s sexuality than her lyrics. Soon a major label and its strong-arm executive come calling. Convinced that a record deal will deliver much needed money for the family, Majo is suddenly faced with some stark choices. Does she accept the deal and turn her back on the friends who got her to the precipice of success or does she let a golden opportunity slip away. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2012.

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Get your Almodovar Fix at the Castro April 11

Posted on April 7, 2013 by admin

Part of what makes the Castro Theater such a treasure is the programming. This month for example there were three days of a sing-a-long screening of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast then drag performer Miss Coco Peru  the next day followed by Django Unchained. I’m happy to see that in that eclectic mix of films and performances that classic films, Oscar winners, film festivals and foreign films all have a grand film palace for people to see them as they’re meant to be seen: on the big screen.

PedroAlmodovar_2011_cannesFFThis month they’ll be screening a couple of Pedro Almodóvar films. You can catch All About My Mother at 4:55PM & 9:10PM and Talk To Her at 2:45 and 7PM, Thursday April 11th.

Talk to Her: 2002 Spain  Comedy/Drama
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.

All About My Mother: France/Spain 1999  Comedy/Drama
Young Esteban want to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by the mother Manuela. Won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.  Stars Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Antonia San Juan


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