11th GAINESVILLE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL, 2015

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11th GAINESVILLE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL, 2015
LATINA WOMEN’S LEAGUE CORP.
501(c)(3), NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION|TAX ID# 35-2259836
P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
Welcome!!/ Bienvenidos! / Bem-vindo!
The Latina Women’s League presents
11th GAINESVILLE LATINO
FILM FESTIVAL, 2015
SEPTEMBER 10 – 30• Free Admission
“Latin American Voices from the Homefront”
www.GainesvilleLatinoFilmFestival.com
SEPTEMBER 10–
30
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501(c)(3), NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION|TAX ID# 35-2259836
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The 11th Gainesville Latino Film Festival 2015 is possible thanks to our amazing sponsors!!
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P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
Latina Women’s League Mission
The Latina Women’s League’s (LWL) strives to promote the educational, personal and cultural advancement of the Latino community of Alachua County. In 2004 LWL was
established as a women-led non-profit organization to serve as a forum for the discussion of the experiences of Latina women living in Alachua County. The organization quickly
grew to bridge the gap of Alachua County’s underserved Latino and Hispanic community, by providing much needed civic, cultural and bilingual family programs.
GLFF Project
The Gainesville Latino Film Festival (GLFF), initiated in 2005, celebrates Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month by bringing together people of all ages for free film screenings, discussions,
musical performances, art exhibits, documentaries and shorts that highlight Hispanic/Latino contributions to the arts.
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2015GLFF Committee Members
Victoria Condor-Williams
GLFF Director
Pilar Morales
GLFF Managing Coordinator
Jordan Fulkerson
GLFF Managing Assistant
Ileana McCray
LWL Interim Treasurer
Carolina Ceballos
Eliveth Grossteffon
GLFF Programming Coordinator &
Festival Guest Itinerary Coordinator
GLFF Public Relations Assistant
(& Sponsorship Coordinator)
GLFF Opening Night Coordinator
Outreach & Fundraising Assistant
GLFF Events Coordinator
Clara Sotelo
Bilingual Story Time Coordinator
Agustina Bonaventura
Carolina Ceballos
GLFF Experimental Film Volunteer
Coordinator
GLFF Graphic design & Print GLFF
Coordinator.
GLFF Social Media Coordinator
Nicole Segnini
GLFF Social Media Assistant
Claudia Navarro
GLFF Venue Coordinator
Gaby Portugal- Bouza
GLFF Venue Coordinator
Lucy Negron
GLFF Volunteer
Alnycea Blackwell
Mariam Gonzales
Paola Simmons
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MAIN VENUES
The festival screenings and events will take place in the followings venues.
Harn Museum – Chandler
Auditorium
3259 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611
Hippodrome Theater-Cinema
25 Se 2nd Pl,
Gainesville, Fl 32601
The Wooly
25 Se 2nd Pl,
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Historic Thomas Center
302 Ne 6th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601
UF Institute of Hispanic/Latino
Culture
1504 W. University Ave.
Gainesville, FL. 32603
UF George A. Smathers Libraries
(East Library)
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UF Florida Museum of Natural
History
University of Florida Cultural Plaza
3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-2710
SF College event-Lecture
Alachua Library Branch
14913 NW 140 Street,
Alachua, FL 32615
Waldo Library Branch
14257 Cole Street,
Waldo, FL 32694
Archer Library Branch
13266 SW State RD 45,
Archer, FL 32618
SF College event-pannel
University of Florida
Reitz Union North Lawn
Gainesville Florida 32611
Santa Fe College, Fine Arts Hall
3000 NW 83rd St,
Gainesville, FL 32606
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Headquarter Library Branch
401 E University Ave,
Gainesville, FL 32601
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SPECIAL EVENTS VENUES – ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
GLFF OPENING NIGHT FILM
SEPTEMBER 10@ 6:30pm
Celebrating Women in Film
En Nombre de la Hija
In the Name of the Girl
Harn Museum of Art – Chandler Auditorium
Director Tania Hermida in attendance.
Tania Hermida
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CLOSING NIGHT FILM
SEPTEMBER 30 @ 7:00pm
The Historic Thomas Center, Gainesville, FL
The GLFF Closing Night: includes film screening, appetizers, cocktails & live entertainment.
Join us for our Closing Night Festival as we celebrate Peruvian music with Perujax dancer performance!
Sigo siendo (kachkaniraqmi)
Javier Corcuera
I Still Am
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE*
SEPTEMBER
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
6
7
8
9
10
13
14
15
16
17
Anina
Uruguay/ Colombia
@ 2:00pm
Archer Library Branch
13266 SW State RD
45,Archer, FL 32618
Habi, The foreigner/ habi
la extranjera
Argentina, Brazil
@ 7:00pm
UF Smathers Library (East)
- University of Florida
Latin American and
Caribbean Collection
(LACC)
La Analfabeta
Chile
@ 7:00pm
UF Institute of
Hispanic/Latino Culture
La Casita @ 7:00pm
Distancia /Distance
Guatemala
@ 7:00pm
The Wooly
Friday
12
En El Nombre de la Hija Ecuador
@ 6:30pm
Guest presentation & Q &
A
Mr. Kaplan
Uruguay
@7:00pm Hippodrome
Theater
Yvy Maraey: Land
Without Evil Yvy Maraey:
Tierra sin mal
Bolivia
@ 2:00pm
Harn Museum
18
Musical Performance
(CONCERT NEW DATE:
October 2nd
Phillips Center.
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Fulantio & Fat Joe .
Free admission.
RamblerasUruguay
@ 2:00pm
Waldo Library
14257 Cole Street
Waldo, FL 32694
27
Anina
Uruguay/ Colombia
@ 2:00pm
Alachua Library
14913 NW 140 Street,
Alachua, FL 32615
21
28
CINExperimental
7:00am-9:00pm
The Wolly
22
Chicama
Peru
@ 7:00pm
UF Institute of
Hispanic/Latino Culture
La Casita
29
Immigration Panel:
Perspectives on Latino
Immigration,”
Santa Fe College
23
The Tiger and the Deer |
El Tigre y el Venado – El
Salvador
@ 7:00pm
The Wooly
30
I Still Am /Sigo siendo
(Kachkaniraqmi) - Peru
@ 7:00
Thomas Center
19
Jaula de Oro/ The
Golden Cage
Mexico
@ 2:00pm
Harn Museum
Lecture:
One Day I’ll Tell You the
Things I’ve Seen by
author Santiago VaqueraVasquez
11:00am
Headquarter Library
Branch
Lecture:
One day I'll Tell You the Things
I've Seen by author Santiago
Vaquera
7:00pm
SF College, Fine Arts Hall
20
Saturday
24
Bad Hair | Pelo MaloVenezuela
7:00pm
@Hippodrome Theater
25
26
Family Event
@ 10:00am – 3:00pm
Florida Museum of
Natural History
Screening (Family short
film)
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VENUES
Harn Museum –
Chandler Auditorium
Univeristy of Florida,
Smathers Library
(Library East)
University of Florida,
Institute of
Hispanic/Latino
Culture, La Casita
The Wooly
Hippodrome TheaterCinema
Archer Library Branch
Waldo Library
Alachua Library
University of Florida,
Reitz Union North
Lawn
Florida Museum of
Natural History
Headquarters Library
Branch
The Historic Thomas
Center
Santa Fe College
Fine Arts
*SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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FILMSPlease plan to arrive as early as possible to improve your chances of admission. We recommend arriving 30 minutes early to your screening.
SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
SEPT. 10 @ 6:30PM
En Nombre de la Hija / In the Name of the Girl
Harn Museum- Chandler Auditorium
3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611
Festival guest: Director Tania Hermida P. Izquierdo
Ecuador| Director Tani Hermida in attendance
Karl Marx’s famous quotation “Religion is the opium of the people” is one of the ‘odd’ ideas nine-year-old Manuela confronts her
ultra-catholic family with, while she tries to teach her little cousins the basic principles of communism… It is the summer of 1976 in
a valley of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador. Manuela, educated according to the communist and atheistic ideals of her beloved
father, believes her parents to be on a revolutionary mission in Colombia, while she and her five-year-old brother Camilo have to
spend the summer at their grandparents’ farmhouse. Of course, in a catholic-conservative household a nine-year-old’s Marxist
world outlook will cause trouble. Manuela eagerly defends her father’s political and philosophical ideas, unwilling to obey her
grandmother’s conservative rules…
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SEPT. 12 @ 2:00PM
Yvy Maraey, Tierra Sin Mal / Yvy Maraey, Land
Harn Museum – Chandler Auditorium
3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611
Introduction film and Q& A with Dr. Susan Paulson
Bolivia | Director Juan Carlos Valdivia
A Bolivian filmmaker and a Guaraní Indian travel together through the forests of southeastern Bolivia to make a film about the
Guaraní people. The starting point is a 1911 film by Swedish explorer Erland Nordenskiöld. But today’s reality turns out to be much
more intense than the nostalgia for a lost world. In Yvy Maraey, the white man (the director) and the Indian create and interpret
their own characters, walking the thin line between documentary, fiction, and performance. Far from observing another culture, we
are watched and questioned about our identity in a country undergoing enormous social, political, and historical change as it
struggles to create an intercultural society. Yvy Maraey is a quest for the knowledge within, seen through the eyes of the other.
Here learning comes from another form of seeing—listening. The film combines reality with the epic tale of a heroic indigenous
nation.
st
SEPT. 14 @ 7:00PM
Habi la13extranjera
/ Habi, The foreigner
SEPT.
@ 2:00PM
Argentina, Brazil |Director María Florencia Alvarez
Anina
UF George A. Smathers Libraries (East Library) -1 Floor
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7000 Located at the northeast corner of the Plaza of the
Archer
Library Branch
Americas.
13266
SW State
RD
45,Archer,
FL Kevin
32618 Funk
Introduction
film
and
Q& A with
Introduction film by Clara Sotelo
Uruguay, Colombia |Director Alfredo Soderguit
Analía’s mother sends her to Buenos Aires to deliver some handicrafts. She is expected to return home quickly to the country town
where she is to take on her family’s hairdressing salon. But by chance an address mix-up leads her to a Muslim community where
Anina
Yatay
Salastaking
is a ten-year-old
girlcompletely
who does not
like hertoname.
Each
part isseveral
a palindrome
it reads
thetosame
forwards
and
she finds
herself
part in a ritual
unknown
her. She
is given
objects—
which
seem
harbour
a
backwards.
day, Anina
her arch-enemy
Yisel
into a in
schoolyard
skirmish,bysothe
thenew
principal
them with
a weird
mysterious One
message:
theseand
include
a tunic, a map
andget
a recipe
Farsi. Enthralled
world disciplines
she has entered,
Analía
punishment:
theyspur
areof
both
a sealed
envelope
whichShe
theyrents
are not
allowed
to open
a week.
Anina’s
to
decides on the
thegiven
moment
to takeblack
on another
identity.
a room
nearby
and,for
coming
across
the efforts
name ‘Habiba
understand
contents
of one
the envelope
turn this
into as
a journey
understand
the world
and her
place
in it. this strange language, pray
Rafat’ in thethe
personal
ads
day, chooses
her newtoname.
She decides
to learn
how
to speak
like a Muslim, find a job and make new friends. She is determined to find out what it means to be somebody else.
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SEPT. 15 @ 7:00PM
Las Analfabetas / Illiterate
UF Institute of Hispanic/Latino Culture
1504 W. University Ave. Gainesville, FL. 32603
Introduction film and Q& A with Dr. Maria Coady
Chile | Director Moisés Sepúlveda
Ximena, played by the incomparable Paulina García (Gloria) is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own
to keep her illiteracy a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take
reading classes. Persuading her proves to be an almost impossible task, till one day, Jackeline finds something Ximena has been
keeping as her only treasure since she was a child: a letter Ximena’s father left when he abandoned her many years before. Thus,
the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover that there are many ways of being illiterate, and that not
knowing how to read is just one of them.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies
SEPT. 16 @7:00PM
Distancia / Distance
The Wooly
20 N Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601
Introduction film and Q& A with Elizabeth Getman
Guatemala | Director Sergio Ramírez
Tomás Choc is two days and 150 kilometres away from seeing Lucía, his only living daughter. It has been twenty years since she
was kidnapped from their K’iche’ Mayan village by the army during the Guatemalan civil war; she was just three years old then.
Tomás has kept a journal of his experience of struggle, resistance and survival, hoping that one day he would be reunited with his
daughter and able to give it to her. As this deeply sensitive and beautifully crafted film portrays, a journey of this magnitude must
cover a distance that is not merely physical. The use of non-professional actors adds poignancy and veracity to the images, with
no overwrought emotion to eclipse their dignity. Diana Sanchez.
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SEPT. 17@ 7:00PM
Mr. Kaplan
The Hippodrome- Cinema
25 Se 2nd Pl, Gainesville, FL 32601
Introduction film and Q& A with Dr. Norman J.W. Goda,
Uruguay, Spain, Germany |Director Álvaro Brechner
Having fled Poland for South America during WWII, curmudgeonly Jacob Kaplan (award-winning Chilean actor Héctor Noguera) is
passing his sunset years in Montevideo with his wife of 50 years, Rebecca (Nidia Telles). With his family lost in the war, he begins
to take stock of his own unfulfilled life, and finds himself fed up with the local Jewish community’s disinterest in their heritage.
Intent on creating a legacy, Kaplan fancies himself a Nazi hunter, targeting the reclusive German owner of a seafront restaurant
(Rolf Becker), whom, based on the flimsiest of evidence, he suspects of being a war criminal. Joining the quixotic quest for justice
is Kaplan’s hapless chauffeur Contreras (Néstor Guzzini), a disgraced ex-cop who also has something to prove. A bumbling
investigation ensues, with hilarious and surprising results that will leave audiences contemplating nothing less than the meaning of
life.
Loosely inspired by the story of the filmmaker’s own grandfather, director Álvaro Brechner deftly handles the film’s shifting
seriocomic tones while maximizing the Latin scenery and music.
SEPT. 19 @2:00PM
Jaula de Oro / The Golden Cage
Mexico, Spain | Director Diego Quemada-Diez
Harn Museum - Chandler Auditorium
3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611
Introduction film and Q& A with Evan D. George
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In order to escape from the squalid barrio in which they live, young Guatemalan teens Juan, Sara and Samuel make the decision
to attempt the 1,200 mile-long arduous border crossing into “The Golden Cage”, i.e. USA, via Mexico in search of a better life. In
order to blend in with the group and protect herself from the harm a woman can suffer on the journey, Sara initially disguises
herself as a boy named Oswaldo.
Not long after their departure, the group encounter Chauk, an Tzotzil Indian who speaks virtually no Spanish. Despite Juan’s
fervent and passionate opposition, Sara insists they allow Chauk to join the gang. A harsh road follows as the four children show
inspiring bravery in the face of relentless danger and obstacles, both natural and manmade. All the while, they risk arrest,
deportation and death. From the first frame to the last hopeless moment, this is a heart-wrenching story of hope, friendship,
survival, love and desperation, and a profound homage to the treacherous journey thousands of immigrants undertake each year.
SEPT. 20 @ 2:00PM
Rambleras/ Promenade Women
Waldo Library Branch
14257 Cole St, Waldo, FL 32694
Introduction film and Q& A with Ericka Ghersi
Uruguay | Director Daniela Speranza
With Montevideo’s rambla, an avenue that goes along the coastline, as its stage, “Rambleras” centers on three women facing a
personal crisis. Thirty-something Patricia, an employee at Jacqueline’s rotisserie, spends her nights alone in her apartment,
staring wistfully at her cell phone, hoping for that one phone call that might change her life. Jacqueline, on the other hand, fears
that her relationship with husband Juanca has reached a dead end. Meanwhile, eighty-something Ofelia is still coming to terms
with the death of her sister, her longtime companion; she dares not walk the rambla alone.
SEPT. 22 @ 7:00PM
Chicama
UF Institute of Hispanic/Latino Culture
1504 W. University Ave. Gainesville, FL. 32603
Introduction film and Q& A with Krystal Serrano
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Peru | Director Omar Forero
Caesar is a young man who has prepared all his life to leave his hometown in the northern highlands and migrate to the coast. He
been preparing for five years in college to become a teacher and is ready to go on with his career. But not everything goes as
planned. The only place where he can get placed for a teaching position is in a small town deep in the Andes. Caesar accepts the
challenge and will teach in this town where he will discover his true vocation.
SEPT. 23 @ 7:00PM
El Tigre Y El Venado / The Tiger and the Deer
The Wooly
20 N Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601
Introduction film and Q& A with Natalia Ochoa
El Salvador| Director Sergio Sibrián
The Story talks about “Don Chelino”, an old man of 103 years old, from Tacuba, Ahuachapán, El Salvador, who knows how to play
the indigenous flute, called “pito de Carrizo”, which is the main musical instrument in the traditional dance “el tigre y el venado”
(the tiger and the deer).
The man teaches to a young man how the play the flute in order to maintain alive the tradition; at the same time, he tells to his
apprentice the Story about the indigenous massacre in El Salvador, occurred in 1932, and that it was considered the most brutal
repression act against the indigenous culture in El Salvador.
The apprentice learns to play the flute and together with Don Chelino, they play the song and enjoy the music with the traditional
dancers.
SEPT. 24 @ 7:00PM
Pelo Malo / Bad Hair
Venezuela | Director Mariana Rondón
Hippodrome Theater – Cinema
25 Se 2nd Pl, Gainesville, FL 32601
Introduction film and Q& A with Rafael Cruzado
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Junior is a nine-year-old boy growing up in a working-class housing project in Caracus with his mother Marta, a young
unemployed widow, and his baby brother. Searching for an identity without a father figure, Junior feels marginalised by his
mother's preoccupation with his younger brother. When school term approaches and his yearbook photo is due to be taken, Junior
wishes to change his image and straighten his stubbornly curly hair. This puts him at odds with his mother. Overwhelmed with
searching for a job to provide for the family, she finds it increasingly difficult to tolerate Junior's fixation with his looks. The more
Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him, until he is cornered, face to face with a painful
decision.
SEPT. 27 -@2:00PM
Anina
Alachua Library Branch
14913 NW 140 Street, Alachua, FL 32615
Introduction film by Clara Sotelo
Uruguay, Colombia | Director Alfredo Soderguit
Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old girl who does not like her name. Each part is a palindrome — it reads the same forwards and
backwards. One day, Anina and her arch-enemy Yisel get into a schoolyard skirmish, so the principal disciplines them with a weird
punishment: they are both given a sealed black envelope which they are not allowed to open for a week. Anina’s efforts to
understand the contents of the envelope turn into a journey to understand the world and her place in it.
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SEPT. 28 @ 7:00PM- 9:30PM
CINExperimental
The Wooly
20 N Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601
Introduction by Barbara Mennel and
Andrea Medina
Film
DUNAS
Alexander Quezada
8’ | 2012| Colombia
Dunas is the union of three stages in the life of a man
trying to outrun his past love, represented in the
identification and idealization to finally understand that it
was over.
CÚMULO & NIMBO
Ariel Martinez Herrera
4’:30’’| 2013| Argentina
Cumulus and Nimbus are two puppets who spend their
day lying around in their small film set park watching
cotton clouds drift by in a blue cardboard sky.
One day, however, Cumulus discovers something
mysterious in the behavior of the clouds which Nimbus
links to a strange dream of vast philosophical
implications.
Co-sponsored by University of
Florida, English Department
Director
Bio
ALEXANDER QUEZADA
Alexander is a social communicator, since 2003
has been working in recognized public television
programs in his country, at the same time he has
served as an Assistant Director and Director in
advertising. In 2011 he founded Quevil Films, a
production company in which is actually developing
some projects.
ARIEL MARTINEZ
Ariel Martínez Herrera is Designer of Image and
Sound (FADU-UBA) and Director of Photography
(ENERC-INCAA). Director of Alas, feature film
released in 2010. Founder and director of
Grandesexitos.tv, editorial, animation and original
content studio that produced animation for TV,
theater, and advertising. And the following series:
FAMOSO (Isat, 2013); El show de Cúmulo &
Nimbo (UN3, 2014); Washington Cósmico
(Personal video, 2014) and FAMOSO 2 (Isat,
2015)
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EMPIRA
Melisa Aller
3’30’’ | 2013| Argentina
So was the sky at the beginning of the world. The
sunrises were all ours. Now I lose my nature.
Hopelessness turns into fire. When you remember me,
we will both be far. Yes; we should have stopped time
to equalize ourselves.
GRAFFITI & A GUN
Jean Paul Bois
12’| 2012 | Perú
The night is poetically fatalistic. 'She' is in his room
finishing a scary graffiti, is waiting for 'him', his haughty
young boyfriend belonging to the local mafia. 'The
Death' senses a tragic outcome, but what 'The Death'
doesn't know is that this act of redemption is a covenant
between love and life.
MELISA ALLER
Melisa Aller was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
She studied Political Science at the UBA and
Filmmaking and Video in CIEVYC. She also
studied with the directors Claudio Caldini and
Ernesto Baca. In recent years has been spent
working particularly in the super 8 format, filming
and editing all on camera without any intervention
from the digital.
In the last year she was invited by the 28th
International Film Festival of Mar del Plata for the
Panorama Section which showed six of her last
films and also she was convened by Arco iris Lab
for "Toma Única 2013”. In 2014 she was selected
for Proyecto Documental, Department of Art
Torcuato Di Tella
JEAN PAUL DUBOIS
Peruvian director who explores the human
condition in its entirety. His work has been
projected and awarded around the world. He is
currently preparing his first feature-length film.
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HOY MAS QUE OTRO DÍA
Nádir Cárdenas
4’ 40’’ | 2014 | Perú
Because all and nothing can be explained in love, and
because all and nothing is explained in us and with us.
LINEAR
Amir Admoni
6’ | 2012 | Brasil
A line is a dot that went for a walk
SACRIS PULSO
Ana Vaz
15’ | 2008 | Brasil
Sacris Pulso departs from the deconstruction of another
film, Brasiliários, a film which interprets Clarice
Lispector's chronic "Brasília" as her vision of the
modernist capital in 1962. Through the juxtaposition of
Brasiliários with a series of found footage, the film takes
the form of a voyage of remembrance and imagination,
of a past and future dreamt between Brazil and
Australia.
NADIR CARDENAS
Nádir Cárdenas works in the audiovisual
communication field. She was involved in
workshops about photography, graphic design and
art direction in Buenos Aries (Argentina). Currently,
she works in all those areas; she also records and
edits videos. Together with her friend, she works in
a project of musical videos and self-portrait
photography.
AMIR ADMONI
Independent director, animator, designer and
independent dilettante Amir Admoni received his
degree in Architecture from FAU-USP and his
Masters in Design from the Sandberg Instituut
Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has worked in the
Graphic Advertising Department of MTV Brazil and
Disney Channel Latin America in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He currently works on his own projects,
including short films, theater pieces and video
installations. His latest short, Linear, was exhibited
in more than 170 festivals and has already won
more than 70 national and international awards,
including Anima Mundi's Best Brazilian Film.
ANA VAZ
Ana Vaz is a Brazilian artist and filmmaker whose
films, writing & performances question the
relationships between language & cinema through
the traces of utopian projects, colonial histories
and the politics of (an)other. A graduate from
the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and
Le Fresnoy - Studio National, Ana is presently
engaged in an experimental research group in art
and politics directed by Bruno Latour. Her films
have been showed at a number of international film
festivals including the New York Film Festival –
Views, Visions du Réel, Ann Arbor, Images,
Biennial of Moving Image (Buenos Aires), Premiers
Plans d’Angers, Femina International Film Festival
(Special Jury Prize), Melbourne International Film
Festival as well as in solo and group shows at
FRAC/Le Plateau (Paris), Museum of the Republic
(Brasília), Salon Jeune Création (Paris), Parkour
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(Lisbon), among others. Recently, her films have
been shown retrospectively at the Melbourne
Cinémathèque (Australia) & Void Gallery (Ireland).
SOLDADERA/ PERCUSION VISUAL
Los Ingrávidos
5’50’’ | 2014 | México
THE INGRAVIDOS
The Ingravidos arises of the need to disassemble
the audiovisual grammar used by the esthetic-tvcinematographic corporatism uses to guarantee a
efficient broadcasting of the audiovisual ideology,
which controls to most of the population.
A woman emerges from the inside of the Mexican
Revolution. She is an armed activist who senses the
immanence of a life outside of the passages where she
walks and where a singularity of the event occurs.
Finally, we contact the beat of the Mexican countryside,
full with colors and walks, in the steps of a woman that
claims for a movement in a fight that does not stop.
It is important to mention how the Ingravidos focus
on the way in which the reflection around the
image and sound heterogeneity bring the
relationship between different policies of esthetic
and audiovisual constructions. The Ingravidos use
the experimentation from various documentary and
cinematographic devices and the interventions
from “found footage” to make political art. Finally,
the Ingravidos are inspired by historical avantgarde, independent and experimental cinema
committed to fight against alienates realities.
English Department
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SEPT. 30 @
6:00PM DANZAS PERUJAX 7:00PM Sigo siendo (kachkaniraqmi) / I Still Am
The Historic Thomas Center
302 Ne 6th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601
Special Guest, Jose Mesones and PERUJAX
Peru | Director Javier Corcuera
Kachkaniraqmi is a Quechua expression that means ‘I continue being, I still am’. Javier Corcuera’s documentary, I Still Am
(Kachkaniraqmi), invites us to delve deeply into very unique and distinct worlds in this celebration of Peru’s rich musical heritage.
A tale divided in three parts – Ayacucho (the Andes), Amazonia (the jungle) and the Coast (Lima, the city) – where they continue
to sing in their native language and preserve a unique way of playing their instruments. I Still Am captures the country’s most
beautiful and distant locations without turning its back to some of its most pressing social and economic problems.
KIDS DOC PEDIATRICS
Luis E. Scaccabarrozzi, MD, MPH
Michele Coleman, ARNP
Jennifer Munksgard, ARNP
6400 West Newberry Road – Suite 109
(North Florida Regional Medical Center – Medical Arts Building)
(352) 332-4400
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Join us for our Closing Night Festival as we celebrate Peruvian music with PERUJAX dancer performance!
Seating is limited so please come early.
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Please plan to arrive as early as possible to improve your chances of admission. We recommend arriving 30 minutes early to your event.
GLFF GOES TO THE LOCAL CLASSSROOMS!
The Gainesville Latino Film Festival is expanding its Teen Producers Project bringing guest film directors directly to the classrooms.
Info: www.GainesvilleLatinoFilmFestival.com
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SEPT. 10 @ 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Museum Nights: Noche de Museo
Harn Museum of Art
3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611
The Latina Women’s League partner with the Harn Museum of art again to present the Opening night
Gainesville Latino Film Festival and the Museum Night: Noche de Museo.
Join us at the Harn for a festive and culturally diverse evening of art, music, performances and art activities. This evening is
sponsored by the UF Office Provost, Student Government and the Center for Latin American Studies.
For more information contact:
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SEPT. 13
Family Film: Anina @ 2:00PM
Family Event!/ Evento para la familia!
Archer Library Branch,
13266 SW State RD 45,Archer, FL 32618
Introduction Film by Ileana McCray
Join us for this family friendly celebration of Hispanic /Latino Heritage Month with the great animation film ANINA. ANINA, will be
shown at the Library Conference Room. The film is in Spanish with English subtitle
Info: Jodie Patterson,
Library Manager: [email protected] (352) 495-3367
SEPT. 16@7:00PM
Lecture: One day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen by
author Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez
SEPT. 19@ 11:00AM
Lecture: Migration is the Story of My Border by author
Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez
Santa Fe College, Fine Arts Hall
3000 NW 83rd St, Gainesville, FL 32606
Guest: Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez
Headquarters Library- Meeting Room A
401 E University Ave,
Gainesville, FL 32601
Guest: Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez
The GLFF is partnering with Santa Fe College to sponsoring a reading by Santiago Vaquera- Vasquez entitled One Day I’ll Tell
You the Things I’ve Seen.
Info: Vilma E. Fuentes Ph.D.
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OCT. 2 @ 6:30PM
Live In Concert: Fulanito & Fat Joe
Location: Phillips Center for Performing Arts
315 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32610. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Opener: Fulanito
Main act: Fat Joe
Free admission (Please plan to arrive as early as possible to improve your chances of
admission)
Get Ready For Another Amazing Latin Night!
The Gainesville Latino Film Festival partnership with UF Hispanic Heritage Month 2015 to bring to the Gainesville
and Alachua County community an incredible Latin concert featuring Fulanito and Fat Joe.
Plan on spending the afternoon and evening with us as live music sets the mood at the Phillips Center.
Info: [email protected]
Fulanito is a Dominican-American musical group that combines traditional merengue with other styles (specifically
house, hip hop, and bachata among other genres). With over 5 million albums sold throughout the world, they were
at one time the top selling act in Colombia, and were placed on other charts including those of Japan, Switzerland,
United States, and Chile. Their name means "so-and-so" in Spanish . Members of Fulanito were formerly with
popular groups such as 740 Boyz and 2 in a Room.
FAT JOE
Joseph Antonio Cartagena, better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper. Fat Joe was born on
August 19, 1970 in the South Bronx area of New York City, where he was raised by parents of Puerto Rican and
Cuban descent. His brother introduced him to rap music. As a teenager, he was highly influenced by fellow Latino
rapper Big Pun. Fat Joe explained the rapper's influence on him by saying "Latinos before us who had the
opportunity to do it just didn't know how to do it. They came in trying to do this black music, waving flags. [But] we're
trying to kick in the doors for other Latinos and represent our people, and it shows
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SEPT. 19 @ 1:00PM
GALLERY TOUR: ART OF RESISTANCE
Harn Museum of Art
3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611
Gallery Tour by Curator, Kerry Oliver-Smith
Enjoy a short tour focused on works by artists from throughout Latin America.
Admission: Free
Info:
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[email protected]
352-392-9826 ext. 2172
SEPT. 26th @ 10:00am – 3:00pm
Family event: THE ANDES
It’s free and fun, Dont’ miss it! / Es gratis y divertido! No te olvides de
asistir!
FUN FAMILY DAY: Exhibitions, bilingual stories and short films!
FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Hull Road and Southwest 34th Street,
Gainesville, FL,32611
THE ANDES
Join us for family- friendly programming with exhibition, activities, short films, & bilingual
story time.
Info: Deanna Kicklighter
Education Assistant, Florida Museum of Natural History
352-273-2063 [email protected]
BILINGUAL STORY TIME!
LWL Cuentos en Español program will join this event and present the following stories:

La boda de la colibrí (La Boda De La Xdzunuúm Leyenda tradicional maya- México)
/The Hummingbird Wedding,
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La Raniposita and
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La sopa de piedra/ Stone soup
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It’s free and fun, Dont’ miss it! / Es gratis y divertido! No te olvides de asistir!
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It’s free and fun, Dont’ miss it! / Es gratis y divertido! No te olvides de asistir!
SHORT FILMS
Caminandes short films Gran Dillama and Llama Drama will be viewing throughout the event.
Caminandes is a Creative Commons movie made by Pablo Vazquez, Beorn Leonard, and Francesco Siddi. Music and Sound by
Jan Morgenstern
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SEPT. 27 @ 2:00PM
Film : Anina
Event for the Family/ Evento para la familia!
Alachua Library Branch, 14913 NW 140 Street,
Alachua, FL 32615
Join us for this family friendly celebration of Hispanic /Latino Heritage Month with the great animation film ANINA. ANINA, will be
shown at the Library Conference Room. The film is in Spanish with English subtitle
Info: Joanne Tremblay [email protected] 386-462-2592
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SEPT.29@7:00PM
Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Latino Immigration
Santa Fe College, Building WA 108
3000 NW 83rd St, Gainesville, FL 32606
Panelist Guests Speakers: Dr. Manuel Vasquez and Dr. Philip Williams
The Gainesville Latino Film Festival is partner with Santa Fe College to present a panel discussion focuses on Perspectives on
Latino Immigration, with guest speakers Dr. Manuel Vasquez, UF Religion Department Chair and Dr. Philip Williams, UF Center
for Latin American Studies, Director.
Info: Vilma E. Fuentes, Ph.D.
Santa Fe College, Intern ational [email protected] 352-395-5030
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FESTIVAL GUEST
Film Guest Speakers
We’re delighted to welcome these guest speakers at the 11th Gainesville Latino Film Festival, 2015
TANIA HERMIDA
Tania Born in Cuenca, Ecuador. Tania studied Film Direction at the San Antonio de los Baños
International Film and TV School (Cuba), where she directed her first short films.
She attended courses on Film Aesthetics (Valladolid, Spain), Creative Writing (Madrid, Spain) and
obtained an MA in Cultural Studies at the Universidad del Azuay with a dissertation on “The diverse
notions of time in fiction film narration”. She was a part time teacher at the San Francisco de Quito
University from 1996 to 2007.
Her first feature film as writer director, Qué tan Lejos (How much further, 2006), was an audience success
and won several international awards, including the Silver Zenith for First Films at the Montreal World film
Festival, the Coral Award for First Films at the Havana Film Festival and Audience Awards in Sao Paulo,
Rio de Janeiro, Austin and Geneva among other cities.
Her second feature film as writer director, En el Nombre de la Hija (In the Name of the girl, 2011)
obtained the Alice Nela Citá Award during its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival, it was presented
at the Ecran Junior Film Festival at Cannes and won, among others, the Youth and Audience Award at
Punta del Este Film Festival.
Tania is now working on the script of her third feature film.
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KEVIN FUNK
Kevin Funk is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Center for Latin American
Studies at the University of Florida. He also serves as Co-President of Graduate Assistants United, the labor
union representing approximately 4,000 graduate assistants at the University of Florida. His dissertation
analyzes the extent to which the economic elites who are responsible for the recent boom in Latin
America’s relations with the Arab world have a transnational class consciousness. He has conducted
fieldwork in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and the United Arab Emirates concerning Arab-Latin
American relations and has interviewed many Latin American business leaders of Arab descent. He is a
member of the Red de Investigación Interdisciplinaria sobre el Mundo Árabe y América Latina
(Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Arab World and Latin America).
MARIA COADY
Dr. Coady is an Associate Professor of ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) and Bilingual
Education. Her research areas include second language and literacy development for English
Language Learners (ELLs); and teacher education (preservice and professional development) for English
learners. Dr. Coady’s research consists of: 1) a model of literacy engagement for ELL, immigrant Spanishspeaking families under a Ford Foundation grant (www.pirsc.org); and (2) mainstream, elementary
teacher preparation for ELLs under a US Department of Education grant-funded study (2007-14),
investigating the relationship between teacher preparation and achievement outcomes of English
Language Learners (Project DELTA, www.education.ufl.edu/project-delta). Both of these projects
involve the development of products to facilitate family-school-community partnerships (e.g.,
fotonovelas) and teacher education (video-production and guides).
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LIZ GETMAN
Liz Getman graduated from the University of Florida in May 2015 with an MA in Latin American Studies.
Her research interests relate to violence against women in Mayan communities and the intersection of
Mayan and Eastern medicine in Guatemala. She has spent a significant amount of time in Guatemala in
recent years, working for various NGOs and studying with local curanderos (healers). Liz works as a writer
with several nonprofits and Spanish annotator with the University of Pennsylvania, but her real passion lies
in healing and wellness work, including dance/movement therapy and meditation.
NORMAN J.W. GODA
Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies. He received his Ph.D.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies modern European history and specializes
in the history of the Holocaust, war crimes trials, and twentieth century diplomacy. He teaches a variety
of courses on the Holocaust and Nazi Germany from historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. He is
the author of Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America (1998); Tales
from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007); The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews
(2013). He has also co-authored, with Richard Breitman, US Intelligence and the Nazis (2005) and Hitler’s
Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence and the Cold War (2010). He has edited a volume of
international essays titled Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Perspectives (2014) as well
as To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945-1947 (2014), which
concerns Holocaust refugees and the question of Palestine in those years. He has published articles in
various journals including the Journal of Modern History, The International History Review, and The Journal
of Contemporary History, and his work has been the subject of stories by the The New York Times, the
Associated Press, US News and World Report, and other major news outlets. Goda has served as a
consultant to the US and German governments, as well as for various radio, television, and film
documentaries in the US, Europe, and Israel.
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NATALIA OCHOA
Nathalia Ochoa is currently the Program Coordinator and Undergraduate Advisor at the Center for Latin
American Studies at the University of Florida. She has strong roots in El Salvador where all her family is
from. She moved to the United States at age 17 and has been living here since then.
Nathalia Ochoa has a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a M.A. in
Gender and Women’s Studies with a Certificate in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida.
Her research has mainly focused on the experience and role of peasant women in high combat zones
during El Salvador’s revolution. More broadly, Nathalia is interested in the intersections of gender and
feminism, social movements in Latin America and development studies.
ERICKA GHERSI
Dr. Ericka Ghersi earned her master’s degree in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Bowling Green
State University (BGSU), Ohio, and got her doctorate degree in Latin American Literature and Society at
the University of Florida (UF). She also earned a Latin American Studies Certificate at the Center for Latin
American Studies in UF. Dr. Ericka Ghersi is currently working at Santa Fe College, teaching Latin
American Humanities courses, and Spanish and Portuguese courses.
Dr. Ghersi has been an active member of the Latina Women’s League. Together with Victoria Condor,
organized the Latin American Folktale Series, and her bachelor’s in Mass Communication came handy
when helping with the coordination of the Latino Film Festival. Her contacts from Latin America in the film
industry helped also to keep up with incoming information on the field.
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EVAN GEORGE
"Born in Gainesville, Florida, Evan George is an attorney with over 11 years’ experience in immigration
law. Since 2008, Mr. George has operated his own law office in Gainesville, Florida, dedicated solely to
immigration and deportation defense. Previously, Mr. George spent three years in New York City
specializing in political asylum. Mr. George graduated from the University of Florida law school (Cum
Laude), where he concurrently completed a Master’s in Latin American Studies. Mr. George is a happy
father of two awesome daughters (both under two years old)."
KRYSTAL SERRANO
Krystal Serrano grew up in Walla Walla, WA. She always wanted to be a teacher but changed gears in
college after a trip abroad, earning BAs in Spanish and Global Studies from Pacific Lutheran University in
Tacoma, WA in 2007. She then worked with the Latina/o community in Seattle for three years as a social
worker for those living with HIV/AIDS. Looking for a change of scenery, she came to UF in 2010 to earn
her MA in Latin American Studies with a concentration in Development Studies. Upon graduation, she
decided to refocus on her first interest and has served as an Upper School Spanish teacher at Oak Hall
School in Gainesville for the past three years.
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RAFAEL CRUZADO
Rafael Cruzado recently graduated from the University of Florida with his MA in Latin American Studies.
He specialized in Latino Studies and focused on the Dominican diaspora, particularly on the
development of Dominican identities and the (re)definition of Dominicanidad.
Rafael also works at UF as the Office Manager for Multicultural and Diversity Affairs, where he combines
his passion for diversity with his knowledge of finance to help MCDA engage students of all backgrounds
on issues of diversity and social justice. He also serves as the Finance Coordinator for the Latina Women’s
League.
SUSAN PAULSON
Susan Paulson explores interactions among gender, class, ethnicity and environment in diverse contexts,
which she has written about in books including Masculinidades en Movimiento, Transformación Territorial
(2013) and Huellas de género en el mar, el parque y el páramo (2009). Paulson studied anthropology at
the University of Chicago, and recently joined the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of
Florida, after living and working for fifteen years in South America and five years in Europe.
BARBARA C. MENNEL
Barbara Mennel is an Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Departments of English and Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida.
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ANDREA MEDINA
Andrea Medina graduated from UF in May 2015 with a degree in English specializing in Film and Media
Studies. Her involvement with the Gainesville Latino Film Festival began in her sophomore year. Along
with another UF student, Andrea created the CINExperimental program to bring to light the works of
experimental Latin American directors from around the world.
CLARA SOTELO
Clara Sotelo, was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where she got a B. S. in Foreign Languages and Literatures
at the Universidad Pedagógica de Colombia (1980). She came to Gainesville in 1987 and got a Master’s
Degree in Latin American Studies (1989) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Romance Languages and
Literatures (1996), at U. F. From 1996 to 2002, she worked at Bethune-Cookman College as the
coordinator of the Modern Languages Program. In 2003, she became an instructor of Spanish at the
“Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies” at the University of Florida. She is currently the
Coordinator of the Second Year Spanish Program within the Lower Division and has directed Study
Abroad Programs to Mexico, Spain, and the D. R. Dr. Sotelo has worked for several non-for-profit
organizations in Colombia and the U. S. (Caribbean American Children Foundation, Caminos Reales)
helping to study and alleviate current social problems among youth and doing research on social
change. Most recently, her work with The Latina Women’s League has given her the opportunity to work
with students of High Schools in the area who bring to younger kids theatrical presentations of folk tales
of universal origin but with Spanish flavor.
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KERRY OLIVER-SMITH
Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, will lead a short discussion of work on view by three
major contemporary Latin American artists.
Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, was born in Argentina and brought up in Latin America.
She oversees a collection of international art in all media and has curated, lectured and authored
publications for over thirty exhibitions. Oliver-Smith is the recipient of several grants and awards, including
major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for Project Europa: Imagining the (Im) Possible, which
travelled to New York. She has served as an Adjunct Scholar at UF, was a founder and artistic director of
Florida’s Hippodrome Theater and has worked internationally on film and theater projects.
Panelist Guests
The Gainesville Latino Film Festival is partner with Santa Fe College to present a panel discussion focuses on Perspectives on Latino
Immigration, with guest speakers Dr. Manuel Vasquez, UF Religion Department Chair and Dr. Philip Williams, UF Center for Latin
American Studies, Director.
MANUEL VASQUEZ
Manuel Vasquez is Professor of Religion at the University of Florida. He received his M.A. and Ph.D.
from Temple University. He is the author/editor of eight books and numerous other publications on
Latin American religions, sociology of religion, and transnational migration. Currently, Vásquez is codirecting with Philip Williams a new initiative on immigration, religion, and social change in the US
South, supported by the Ford Foundation. He is also a member of the planning committee for "The
Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities," a project based at the Social Science Research Council.
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PHILIP WILLIAMS
Philip Williams is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Political Science
at the University of Florida. He received his M.Phil in Latin American Studies and D.Phil in Politics from
the University of Oxford in 1986. He is author/editor of five books and numerous other publications
on Latin American politics, democratization, and transnational migration. Williams has received a
number of prestigious fellowships and grants from Fulbright, North-South Center, United States
Institute of Peace, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
Lecture Guest
The GLFF is partnering with Santa Fe College to sponsoring a reading by Santiago Vaquera- Vasquez entitled One Day I’ll Tell You the
Things I’ve Seen.
SANTIAGO VAQUERA-VASQUEZ
Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
and Hispanic Southwestern Literatures in the Department of Spanish,
and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. He has taught and
lectured at the University of Iowa, Penn State, the Universidad de
Salamanca, the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, the Universidad
Pompeu Fabra, and at Texas A&M University. Dr. Vaquera-Vásquez has
published extensively in Spanish. One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve
Seen is his first collection of stories in English. He has discussed his work
with Eduardo Halfón and Daniel Alarcón in The Believer, and with
Edmundo Paz Soldán and Santiago Roncagliolo in The Arizona Journal
of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
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P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
Musical Groups
The GLFF is partnering with the UF Hispanic Heritage Month 2015, to bring to the Alachua County community a free concert.
More details soon.
Folklore Dance Group
DANZA PERUJAX
The group “Danza Perujax” was created in March 2012 with the main objective to share the folk dances
of Peru and stablish the presence of the Peruvian people in the United States.
The group consists exclusively of passionate volunteers in the Jacksonville area. The group members get
together to learn and rehearse the different dances of the different regions of Peru; from the coast, the
mountains or the wilderness.
Dances:
From the South of Peru: Negroide, song”El Mayoral”
From the Mountains: “Valicha”
From the wilderness: Dance, song” Yacumama”
From the North: Marinera”Backus Amigos por siempre”
Members: Patricia Millard, Margot Loechle, Paola Guerrero, Miriam Bellido, Kathy Kim, Alicia Guerrero,
Janet Panez, Shallymar Balarezo
LATINA WOMEN’S LEAGUE CORP.
501(c)(3), NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION|TAX ID# 35-2259836
P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
2015 GLFF WINNING POSTER
CHRISTIAN GRANGER
Born: Sept. 13, 1991
Hey there, this is Christian Granger speaking. I was raised in the small town of Havana, FL., 15
miles north of our capitol Tallahassee. My hobbies are drawing, photography, hiking, camping,
exploring, playing any and every sport, discovering new music, playing drums and bongos, and
spending my time with some very positive, determined, like-minded people. Growing up I was a
very spontaneous kid ready to compete in every activity that took place. Attended a tiny high
school by the name of Robert F. Munroe where I met some great people that I will forever stay
connected with. In 2011, I came to Gainesville to attend Santa Fe College, where I discovered I
wanted to become a Graphic Designer. Ever since the day I chose to take this path I have been
gratefully blessed with guidance and success. Thanks to the best parents ever created, some incredibly
helpful friends, and countless nights of strenuous work, I’ve been able to become the designer I am
today. I love clean, simple design that is able to portray its message in a complex way. For the past few
years I’ve been working with some of my best friends and a local band by the name of Morning Fatty.
Being able to combine my art and photography with music has been a dream come true. I just recently
graduated from Santa Fe’s Digital Media Program and plan to make big things happen from it. This
summer I will be taking a life changing road trip across America where I will engulf in some of the most
beautiful places on this planet and do things that many people say they were unable to do, due to
whatever restrictions took place in their lifetime. I’m truly blessed from my past and present success and
cannot wait to see what the future has in store for me. The past few years I’ve ultimately come to realize
that success is not a accident, but a choice, and to become the best you must work extremely hard
and improve in something every single day. And simply, through that method, dreams become reality.
LATINA WOMEN’S LEAGUE CORP.
501(c)(3), NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION|TAX ID# 35-2259836
P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
SPECIAL THANKS
Thanks to the following sponsors, partners, supporters, staff and volunteers whose help made possible the 11th Gainesville
Latino Film Festival.
FESTIVAL SPONSORS
UF Center for Latin American Studies
UF Center for Humanities and Public Sphere
UF International Center
Visit Gainesville
Tioga Center
Law Office of Evan D. George
The Williams Condor-Family
Josh & Sally Dickenson
Amalia Alvarez
Walt Disney World
Milagros Peña
Victorina Basauri
Kinnon & Janice Thomas
Martha Berdat
City of Gainesville
Sabore
Gainesville Commission on the Status of
Women
Paul & Polly Doughty
Coni Gesualdi
MACY’S
HOTEL
Sweetwater Branch Inc
RESTAURANTS SUPPORTERS
Sweetwater Branch Inc
Saboré
Emiliano’s Cafe
Mi Apa Latin Café
FILM SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS
UF Center for Jewish Studies
Florida Museum of Natural History
UF Smathers Library
RegionsBank
UNA Gainesville Chapter
Ideas + Medios
Momento Films International
UF Center for African Studies
UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
Santa Fe College
Kids Doc Pediatrics
Dr. Luis Eduardo Scaccabarrozzi
Omar Forero
Cineplanet
Maneshma Films
UF Department of English
UF Spanish & Portuguese Department
The Best Restoration
Sergio Sibrian
CAMINANDES
Antorcha Films
El Tigre y el Venado/ The Tiger and the Deer
LATINA WOMEN’S LEAGUE CORP.
501(c)(3), NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION|TAX ID# 35-2259836
P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
CREATIVE SERVICES
Christian Granger
DM Creative Studios
Neutral7
Paola Simmons
Shelby N. Taylor
Mariam Gonzales
VENUES
UF Harn Museum
Alachua County Library District
Peruvian American Association
of Jacksonville, Florida
Hippodrome State Theater
UF Smarther Library
The Wooly
UF Institute of Hispanic- Latino Culture
DANCE PERFORMANCE
Jose Mesones
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
UF Hispanic Heritage Month 2015
Gilberto de Paz and TROPIX
MEDIA
WUFT/WJUF FM
Gainesville Sun
Conexion Latina
WCJB- TV20
Hola Noticias- Jacksonville
Gainesville the CM
Union Time
GUEST SPEAKERS
Tania Hermida
Liz Getman
Ericka Ghersi
Susan Paulson
Kerry Oliver Smith
Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez
Kevin Funk
Norman J. W. Goda
Evan George
Barbara Mennel
Manuel Vasquez
Andrea Median
Maria Coady
Natalia Ochoa
Krystal Serrano
Andrea Medina
Philip Williams
Victoria Gomez de la Torre
SPECIAL THANKS
Mary Risner
Maria del Pilar Paz
Ruth Steiner
Rafael Cruzado
Jocelyn Peskin
Ileana McCray
LATINA WOMEN’S LEAGUE CORP.
501(c)(3), NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION|TAX ID# 35-2259836
P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
Neysa Walkin-Boothe
Carmen Diana Deer
Vilma Fuentes
Gloria Schwartz
Vanessa Reigosa
Tiffany Ireland
Magdalena Raszka
Olivia Garcia
Raquel Vallejo
Lillian Guevara-Castro
Lucia Carney
Luisa Amelia Dempere
Emilia Hodge
Polly Doughty
Gilberto de Paz
April FitzGerald
Elizabeth Fiori
Erik Breuer
Clara Sotelo
Eric Segal
Genesis Lara
Sara Alvear-Cottman
Rosana Resende
Bruni de Paz
Laura Cardona
Sally Dickinson
Jorge Ibañez
Wanda de Paz
Agustina Bonaventura
Catherine Carey
Pepe Mesones
Elizabeth King
Pilar Morgin
Mabel Cardec
Marina Jordan
Monica Marsh
Nathaly Ruiz
GLFF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Victoria Condor-Williams
Ileana McCray
Eliveth Grossteffon
Mariam Gonzales
Claudia Navarro
Lucy Negron Blessington
Pilar Morales
Jordan Fulkerson
Clara Sotelo
Nicole Segnini
Agustina Bonaventura
Carolina Ceballos
Alnycea Blackwell
Paola Simmons
Patricia Rosario
Gabriela Portugal-Bouza
LWL BOARD MEMBERS
Victoria Condor-Williams
Sara Alvear- Cottman
Maria Eugenia Zelaya,
Martha Berdat
TO OUR 2015 GLFF VOLUNTEERS
Ileana Mccray
Clara Sotelo
LATINA WOMEN’S LEAGUE CORP.
501(c)(3), NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION|TAX ID# 35-2259836
P.O. Box 359079 | Gainesville, FL 32635, USA| 352. 378.9787
THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION, WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!!
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