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 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 The 11th Gainesville Latino Film Festival 2015 is possible thanks to our amazing sponsors!! 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 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. 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 Headquarter Library Branch 401 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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… 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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) 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 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. 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 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 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 (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 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 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 www.kidsdocpediatrics.org Join us for our Closing Night Festival as we celebrate Peruvian music with PERUJAX dancer performance! Seating is limited so please come early. 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 EVENTS - SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE 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 Info: [email protected] 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: Elizabeth King [email protected] 352-392-826 x 2172 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 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. Santa Fe College, International [email protected] 352-395-5030 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 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 STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS! 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 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: Elizabeth King, Visitor Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator [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, La Raniposita and La sopa de piedra/ Stone soup 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 It’s free and fun, Dont’ miss it! / Es gratis y divertido! No te olvides de asistir! Info: [email protected] 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 Info: [email protected] 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 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 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 . 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 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. 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 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). VICTORIA GOMEZ DE LA TORRE 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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