2016 GLFF Press Kit - Gainesville Latino Film Festival

WELCOME /
BIENVENIDOS!
DEAR GAINESVILLE LATINO FILM
FESTIVAL FRIENDS,
As part of our continued
commitment to provide an
excellent Festival journey, each
year we explore new ways for you
to more easily discover the
program’s brand new films, and
fresh voices. This program Guide,
presents all of the info for the films
on the 2016 Festival. The Guide will
present our film lineup, musical
performances, events and sponsor
activities.
Also you can check out webpage
www.GainesvilleLatinoFilmFestival.com and follow us on
Facebook and Twitter.
We look forward to seeing you all in September celebrating
the Latino/ Hispanic Heritage Month at the 12th Gainesville
Latino Film Festival, 2016.
Victoria
Victoria Condor-Williams
GLFF Director
Contigo Pan y Cebolla
Pequeno Poema em
Prata
Anima / Spirit
Camal /
Slaughterhouse
La mar brava
Manchinery
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.
Gainesville Latino Film (GLFF) Festival 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.
2016 GLFF Committee Members
Victoria Condor-Williams
Ileana McCray
Director
Managing Coordinator
Olga Rivera
Lillian Guevara Castro
Andrea Cabassa Miskimen
Allison Drexler
LWL Treasurer
Public Relations Coordinator
Programming Coordinator & Publicity
Materials Coordinator
Marketing Coordinator
Nathaly Ruiz
Clara Sotelo
Amelia Dempere
Eliveth Grossteffon
Sarah L. Pattison
Gisselle Bermudez
Carla Moure
Andrea Medina
Andrea Schuster
Programming Coordinator Assistant
Assistant Coordinator
Social Media Coordinator
Venue and Events Coordinator
Opening Night Coordinator
Closing Night Coordinator
Assistant Coordinator
Volunteer
Volunteer
MAIN VENUES
The festival screenings and events will take place in the followings venues.
Harn Museum – Chandler Auditorium
3259 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611
E-Theater
Santa Fe College
Northwest Campus, 3000 NW 83rd St
The festival screenings and events will take place in the followings venues.
The Wooly
25 S.E. 2nd Pl,
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Thomas Center
302 N.E. 6th Ave,
Gainesville, FL 32601
UF Institute of Hispanic/Latino Culture,
La Casita
1504 W. University Ave.
Gainesville, FL. 32603
UF Smathers Library East
208 Smathers Library
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7005
UF Florida Museum of Natural History
3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-2710
Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
Downtown Gainesville
Matheson History Museum
513 E University Avenue
Gainesville FL 32601
Library Partnership Branch | Alachua
County Library District
1130 NE 16th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601
Cone Park Branch Library| Alachua
County Library District
2801 E. University Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32641
Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, University
of Florida
686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611
12th GAINESVILLE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE, SEPTEMBER 2016*
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
3
5
6
7
8
9
7:00PM
E-Theatre, SF College
Film: El Regreso /The
Return
COSTA RICA
10
10:00AM – 1:00AM
Florida Museum of Natural
History
FAMILY EVENT: Greeting
from the Andes
& CAMINANDES SHORT
FILMS: Llamigos, Gran
Dillama, Llama Drama
Sept 1 – Oct 15
Cone Park Branch
EXHIBIT
“Unity Through
Culture”, Latin
American Craft
6:30PM
Harn Museum
GLFF OPENING NIGHT
FILM: Paraíso/
Paradise
MEXICO
2:00PM
SF College
E-Theatre, SF College
FILM: El Salvador: Cuatro
Puntos Cardinales / El
Salvador: Four Cardinal
Points
EL SALVADOR
7:00PM
SF College
E-Theatre, SF College
FILM: Un Amigo
Inesperado
CUBA
11
3:00PM
Matheson Museum
FILM: Vacaciones en
Familia Family
Vacation
CHILE
18
3:00PM
Matheson Museum
FILM: Que Horas Ela
Volta? | The Second
Mother
BRAZIL
12
7:00PM-9:00pm
The Wooly
CINExperimental
SHORT FILMS:
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Anima/ Spirit ARTENTINA
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Camal/
SalughterhouseECUADOR
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Amor FugitivoARGENTINA
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La mar brava –
PERÚ
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Manchinery –
PERÚ
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Pequeno Poema
em Prata –
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BRAZIL
19
7:00PM-9:00pm
The Wooly
FILM: Quien paga la
cuenta/ Who pays the
bill?
HONDURAS
13
7:00PM
UF Institute of
Hispanic/Latino Culture /
La Casita
FILM: Desastres naturales/
Natural Disasters
CHILE
20
7:00PM
UF Institute of
Hispanic/Latino Culture
/La Casita
FILM: Un Amigo
Inesperado
CUBA
14
7:00PM
UF Smathers Library
(East)
FILM: Papita, Mani,
Toston / Take me out
VENEZUELA
21
7:00PM- 9:00PM
UF Smathers Library
(East)
Film: Viejos Amigos /
Good old boys
PERU
15
5:30PM
UF Smathers Library
(East)
LECTURE
War and the
Neoliberal Condition:
Death and
Vulnerability in
Contemporary
Mexico
7:00PM
Thomas Center
FILM: Wakolda/ The
German Doctor
ARGENTINA
16
6:00PM- 8:00PM
22
7:00PM- 9:00PM
The Wooly
FILM: Cómo ganar
enemigos/ How to
win enemies
ARGENTINA
23
8:00PM –10:00PM
Bo Diddley Community
Plaza
MUSICAL EVENT- SALSA
CONCERT
Gilberto de Paz &
TROPIX
UF Reitz Union Grand
Ballroom
EVENT
Light the Night, Hispanic
Heritage Month UF
7:00PM
E-Theatre, SF College
FILM: Llévate mis
Amores/ All of me
MEXICO
17
2:00 PM
E- Theatre, SF College
FILM: Silencio en la tierra
de los sueños/ Silence in
Dreamland
ECUADOR
7:00PM
E- Theatre, SF College
FILM: O Candidato
Honesto / The Honest
Candidate
BRAZIL
24
11:00AM
Library Partnership Branch
FAMILY EVENT- CUENTOS
(Bilingual story time):
La selva tiene sed / The
Jungle is Thirsty
7:00PM
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Thomas Center
FILM: La vaca/ Holy cow
GUATEMALA
Harn Museum – Chandler
Auditorium
Univeristy of Florida,
Smathers Library
(Library East)
University of Florida,
Institute of
Hispanic/Latino Culture,
La Casita
The Wooly
The Historic Thomas
Center
Matheson Museum
E-Theatre
Santa Fe College
Florida Museum of
Natural History
Bo Diddley Community
Plaza.Downtown
Library Partnership
Branch
Cone Park Branch
2801 E. University Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32641
UF Reitz Union Grand
Ballroom
686 Museum Rd,
Gainesville, FL 32611
*SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
SPECIAL EVENTS VENUES – ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
GLFF OPENING NIGHT FILM
SEPTEMBER 08 @ 6:30PM
Celebrating Mexican Films
Paraíso
Paradise
Harn Museum of Art – Chandler Auditorium
Special guest, actress, Daniela Rincón in attendance.
Director, Mariana Chenillo
Actress, Daniela Rincón
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
SEPTEMBER 24 @ 7:00PM
Celebrating Guatemalan Films
LA VACA
HOLY COW
The Historic Thomas Center, Gainesville, FL
The GLFF Closing Night: includes film screen, and closing reception.
Film introduction by Dr. Antonio Sajid López
Director, Mendel Samayoa
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Please plan to arrive as early as possible to improve your chances of admission. We recommend arriving 30 minutes early to your
screening.
TUESDAY, SEPT 08 @ 6:30PM
Harn Museum - Chandler Auditorium
Paraíso / Paradise
Director Mariana Chenillo •MEXICO, 2013• 105 min
• Spanish with English Subtitles •Rate: Some nudity•
Cast: Andres Alameida, Daniela Rincon, Camila
Selser, Beatriz Moreno, Jose
SYNOPSIS
In this charming Mexican love story, a young couple moves
to the big city for his job and discovers a blatant bias
against them because of their weight. When he
begrudgingly follows her lead in losing weight, then
exceeds her success, comedy and pathos ensue as their
relationship unravels.
This film poignantly explores the issues of self-esteem,
physical appearances, and the nature of love.
Film Introduction and Q& A by Actress Daniela
Rincón
THURSDAY, SEPT 9 @7:00pm
E-Theater, Santa Fe College
El Regreso /The Return
Director, Hernán Jiménez • COSTA RICA • 2012
• 102 min •Spanish with English Subtitles• Rate:
• Cast: Andre Boxwill, Fernando Chironi, Monserrat
Montero Cole, Luis Rodrigo Duran, Luis Fernando
Gomez, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Bárbara Jimenez,
Hernán Jiménez, Daniel Ross Mix
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr, Tace Hedrick
The Return is the story of a delightful and life-changing
journey back to Costa Rica. After living 10 years in New
York, 30-year-old Antonio returns to San José where he is
forced to deal with the realities he ran away from. He is
welcomed by his intense sister, Amanda, whose husband
recently abandoned her, and their young son Inti, who is
apprehensive about Antonio’s presence. When things take
an unexpected turn, Antonio is forced to remain home far
longer than he had anticipated. Add in the comedy of
Antonio finding out that his best friend is the lead singer of
a death metal rock band and sprinkle in the rekindling of a
childhood romance and you have the ingredients of a
superb film
FAMILY ANIMATE SHORTS
FILMS
SATURDAY, SEPT 10, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Florida Museum of Natural History
Caminandes: Llamigos
NETHERLANDS• 2016• 2min• Animation, Comedy•
Spanish with English subtitles
•Director: Pablo Vazquez
•Team: Francesco Siddi, Hjalti Hjálmarsson, Andy
Goralczyk, Sarah Laufer, Juan Pablo Bouza, Matias
Mendiola, Sergey Shrybin, Torin Borrowdale, Sander
Houtman
Caminandes: Gran Dillama
Experience the Patagonian winter, where Koro has to
struggle and fight to get one berry. But this time, he is not
alone!
Koro’s next adventure is here! It’s winter in Patagonia, food
is getting scarce. Koro the Llama engages with Oti the
pesky penguin, in an epic fight over that last tasty berry.
A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is
always greener on the other side (of the fence).
NETHERLANDS• 2013•3min, •Animation, Comedy,
Family •Spanish with English subtitles
•Director: Pablo Vazquez,
•Team: Francesco Siddi, Hjalti Hjálmarsson, Andy
Goralczyk, Sarah Laufer, Juan Pablo Bouza, Matias
Mendiola, Sergey Shrybin, Torin Borrowdale, Sander
Houtman Jan Morgenstern, Beorn Leonard
Llama Drama
NETHERLANDS• 2013•2min •Animation, Comedy,
Family • Spanish with English subtitles
•Director: Pablo Vazquez,
•Team: Francesco Siddi, Hjalti Hjálmarsson, Andy
Goralczyk, Sarah Laufer, Juan Pablo Bouza, Matias
Mendiola, Sergey Shrybin, Torin Borrowdale, Sander
Houtman, Jan Morgenstern, Beorn Leonard
Koro wants to get to the other side of the road.
SATURDAY, SEPT 10 @ 2:00PM
E-Theatre, Santa Fe College
EL Salvador: Cuatro Puntos Cardinales
/ El Salvador: Four Cardinal Points
Director, Javier Kafie • EL SALVADOR • 2014 • 55
min• Spanish with English Subtitles• Rate:
Film Introduction and Q& A by Andrea Holbrook
SATURDAY, SEPT 10 @ 7:00PM
E-Theatre, Santa Fe College
The Four Cardinal Points is a documentary project that
aspires to portray four moving stories from northern,
southern, eastern and western parts of this Central
American country. The objective is to show the cultural,
social and ecological diversity of the region - and to
create a film that distances itself from media discourses
characteristic of Central America often monopolized by
violence. From communities near the sea where surf is
practiced up to coffee fields, from former guerrilla zones all
the way to craft towns. There are lots to see and tell in a
such a small country!
A Biracial couple confronts the prejudices caused by their
union.
Un Amigo Inesperado/ An
Unexpected Friend
Richard Abella •CUBA•2010 •72 min •
Spanish with English Subtitles • Rate:
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Clara Sotelo
SUNDAY, SEPT 11 @ 3:00PM
Matheson History Museum
Vacaciones En Familia / Family
Vacation
Director, Ricardo Carrasco • CHILE •2014 • 90 min
• Spanish with English Subtitles• Rate:
• Cast: María Izquierdo, Julio Milostich,
Maricarmen Arrigorriaga, Marcial Edwards, Sergio
Hernández, Gabriela Medina, Juan Pablo
Miranda, Eugenio Morales, Silvia Santelices
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Rosana Resende
The Kelly family once enjoyed an affluent lifestyle but have
recently fallen on hard times. Despite this reality, they
continue to maintain an air of aristocracy about them.
They go so far as to lie to their neighbors about their
vacation plans, telling them they’ll be spending their
summer in Brazil. However, when obligated to follow
through with their lie, they find themselves creating a
fictionalized vacation that causes more trouble than they
bargained for. This entertaining romp from Chile will have
you wanting more of this epically terrible family.
CINExperimental
MONDAY, SEPT 12 @ 7:00pm
The Wooly
Anima/ Spirit
Director, Clara Frias • ARGENTINA•2015 •
6’36” •Spanish with English subtitles
Camal/ Slaughterhouse
Director, Miguel Alvear
•ECUADOR • 2011 • 12’21” • B/W •
Spanish with English subtitles
Amor Fugitivo
Director, Ana Clara Soler
• ARGENTINA• 2012 • 4’08”
La Mar Brava
Director, Bryan Rodríguez
• PERÚ • 2011 • 19’32”
Portrait of EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALUM cactus flower.
The bud grows for 30 days, blooms night and died the next
morning.
Documentary registration and perceived flow of time.
"A poetic and penetrating view of Quito’s old
slaughterhouse and the routine of butchering. The Latin
Slang des betes".
Una mesa, lámparas, cristales, telas, distintos objetos
rebelándose en habitaciones y paisajes, huyendo o yendo
al encuentro de algo.
La Mar Brava is a glimpse into the lives of beach residents
in the port city of Callao in Peru. Ana, a women living in the
beach’s shore community called La Mar Brava, leads us
through as she endures personal and distant tragedies.
Manchinery
Director, Luis “Lucho” Soldevilla
•PERÚ • 2012 • 3’53”
Pequeno Poema em Prata
Director, Cristiana Miranda
• BRAZIL,2006, 3’49”
TUESDAY, SEPT 13 @7:00pm
UF Institute of Hispanic/Latino Culture, La
Casita
Desastres Naturales/ Natural Disasters
Director, Bernardo Quesney • CHILE •2014 •75 min
• Spanish with English Subtitles •Rate:
• Cast: Anita Reeves, Fernanda Toledo, Amparo
Noguera, Catalina Saavedra, Paola Lattus
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Clara Sotelo
The machinery installation machinery is a visual
orchestration of machines, people, interfaces, devices and
gears, cross-linked by dynamics of motion and relationships
of cause and effect. A multi-channel choreography that
renders an assembly line in which men and machines
cohabit in constant tension with each other.
In perfect circles the sea-gulls fly
Any disturb, nor the rain, nor the cold
As for me, I suffer of all the desires
Each poison kills me somewhere
I wash my face, trying to see in the foam
Of how many deaths I got rid
High school teacher Raquel walks into her classroom one
day to find that she has been replaced by a much
younger teacher. Undisturbed by the news, she calmly
locks and blocks the classroom door and begins to teach
as if nothing had happened. She won’t come out until
someone explains to her why she was fired. The students, in
solidarity, hold the younger teacher hostage and threaten
to boycott a play the faculty has staged for that evening.
“Natural Disasters” offers a satirical and yet poignant
portrait of Chile’s education system.
Wednesday, September 14 @7:00PM
UF Smathers Library East
Papita, Maní, Tostón / Take Me Out
Director, Luis Carlos Hueck • VENZUELA- 2013 •100
mins •Spanish with English Subtitles • Rate: PG-13
• Cast: Jean Pierre Agostini, Juliette Pardau, Miguel
Ángel Landa
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Clara Sotelo
THURSDAY, SEPT 15 @7:00PM
Thomas Center
Wakolda /The German Doctor
Director, Lucia Puenzo• ARGENTINA• 2013•90 minsGerman and Spanish with English Subtitles•Rate:
•st: Àlex Brendemühl, Florencia Bado, Diego
Peretti, Natalia Oreiro, Alan Daicz, Elena Roger,
Guillermo Pfening, Ana Pauls, Juan I. Martínez,
Nicolas Marsella, Carlos Kaspar, Maria V. Barret,
Abril Braunstein, Benito E. Crespo, Sebástian
Cáneva
Andres (Jean Pierre Agostini) it's a fan of Los Leones del
Caracas one of the principal baseball teams of Venezuela.
Julissa (Juliette Pardau) it's a fan of Los Navegantes del
Magallanes, the rival team. One day Andres gets tickets to
see the game in Magallanes VIP Zone. He meets Julissa
and her dad who is not only fan but one of the team's
managers. Andres and Julissa will fall in love and will have
to pretend to be fan of the other's team. But soon trouble
will arise.
Eva (Natalia Oreiro) and Enzo (Diego Peretti) are preparing
to open a cozy lakeside hotel in a remote Patagonia town
when the family first encounters the charismatic doctor (a
chilling performance by Àlex Brendemühl) along a long
desert road. With mother Eva pregnant with twins, and her
diminutive 12-year-old daughter (captivating newcomer
Florencia Bado) mercilessly teased about her stunted size,
the family represents more than a passing interest for the
nefarious doctor. Unaware of the danger, they accept him
into their home, until a local archivist and photographer
(Elena Roger) suspects the town of German immigrants is
harboring one of the world’s most infamous war criminals.
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Norman
J.W.Goda
FRIDAY, SEPT 16 @ 7:00PM
E-Theatre, Santa Fe College
Llévate Mis Amores / All Of Me
Director, Arturo Gonzalez Villasenor• MEXICO
•2014• 90 mins•Spanish with English Subtitles• Rate:
PG-13• Cast: Sandra Ochoa, Luisa Justiniano,
Enrique Rodríguez, Jorge Flores, Maritza Perdomo,
Izacas Oscar, Nelyi Larice
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Ignacio Sánchez
Prado
"God didn't set up barriers between countries. We are the
ones who raise them."
Mexico and the United States share the greatest border
between the first and the third world. That makes it a
bridge for thousands of migrants who expose themselves to
every danger as they travel through the country on a train
called “The Beast.” That’s where they meet the Patronas, a
group of Mexican women who, every day since 1995,
make food and toss it to the helpless as the train rushes by.
This documentary is an intimate approach, a personal
diary that draws a border between the life they were given
and the life they chose. In the midst of a country at war, in
a world where all hope seems lost, the Patronas breathe
life into a human value that seems to be fading with each
day: love for one another.
SATURDAY,SEPT 17 @ 2:00PM
E- Theatre, Santa Fe College
Silencio En La Tierra De Los Sueños/
Silence in Dreamland
An elderly woman lives alone. A black head dog keeps her
company and watches over the house and the repetitive
movements of the woman. Every so often, she and the
dog go out for long walks along the beach. Her pace is
slow, each walk is a new beginning, and each
homecoming is a confirmation of a life that has been lived.
Director, Tito Molina • ECUADOR, GERMANY • 2014
• 94 mins •Spanish with English Subtitles •Rate: NR•
Cast: Fabian Arenillas, Eugenia Capizzano, Carla
Quevedo
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Emily Hind
SATURDAY, SEPT 17 @7:00PM
E-Theatre, Santa Fe College
O Candidato Honesto/ The Honest
Candidate
John is a corrupt politician wanting to be the Brazil's next
president. He receives an enchantment from his
grandmother and can't lie anymore. Now he must win the
presidential elections telling only the truth.
Director, Roberto Santucci • BRAZIL • 2014 •1hr 50
min Portuguese with English Subtitles • Rate: NR•
Cast: Marcello Caridade, Leandro Hassum, Luiza
Valdetaro
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Charles Perrone
SUNDAY, SEPT 18 @ 3:00PM
Matheson History Museum
Que Horas Ela Volta? | The Second
Mother
Director, Anna Muylaert • BRAZIL- 2015 • 112min
Portuguese with English Subtitles •Rate: R for some
language and brief drug use• Cast: Andre Boxwill,
Fernando Chironi, Monserrat Montero Cole, Luis
Rodrigo Duran, Luis Fernando Gomez, Rodolfo
Gonzalez, Bárbara Jimenez, Hernán Jiménez,
Daniel Ross Mix
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Elizabeth Ginway
An excitingly fresh take on some classic themes and ideas,
THE SECOND MOTHER centers on Val, a hard-working live-in
housekeeper in modern day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly
content to take care of every one of her wealthy
employers’ needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a
surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised
since he was a toddler. But when Val’s estranged daughter
Jessica suddenly shows up the unspoken but intrinsic class
barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Jessica is smart, confident, and ambitious, and refuses to
accept the upstairs/downstairs dynamic, testing
relationships and loyalties and forcing everyone to
reconsider what family really means.
MONDAY, SEPT 19 @ 7:00PM
The Wooly
Quién Paga La Cuenta? / Who Pays
The Bill?
Benjamin Lopez • HONDURAS, PUERTO RICO •
2013• 110 min • Spanish with English Subtitles •
Rate: •Cast: Sandra Ochoa, Luisa Justiniano,
Enrique Rodríguez, Jorge Flores, Maritza Perdomo,
Izacas Oscar, Nelyi Larice.
A box office success in Honduras, “Who Pays the Bill?”
explores the ambitions and dreams of three friends who
have their own peculiar ideas of how to succeed in life.
They are willing to do anything to make those dreams
come true, regardless of the outcome. This hilarious and
delightful comedy pokes fun at a consumerist society and
the price the working class plays to be a part of it.
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Ericka Ghersi
TUESDAY, SEPT 20 @ 7:00 PM
Institute of Hispanic/Latino Cultures ,La
Casita
A Biracial couple confronts the prejudices caused by their
union.
Un Amigo Inesperado/ An
Unexpected Friend
Richard Abella •CUBA•2010 •72 min •
Spanish with English Subtitles • Rate:
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Clara Sotelo
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 21 @ 7:00 PM
UF Smathers Library East
Viejos Amigos/ Good old boys
Director, Fernando Villarán •PERU• 2014 • 96 min
Spanish with English Subtitles •Rate: 13+ • Cast:
Carlos Gassols, Enrique Victoria, Ricardo Blume
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Ericka Ghersi
Balo, Ricardo, Domingo and Kike have been friends pretty
much since the day they were born eight decades ago in
Peru’s El Callao neighborhood. Fate delivers a cruel blow
when Kike dies on the eve of the game that could lead
their favorite soccer team to first place in the league. The
now trio decide to steal Kike’s ashes and take them to the
match, stopping first at some of their favorite youthful
hangouts for one last hurrah. Villaran’s opera prima is a
mischievous celebration of friendship and loyalty.
THURSDAY, SEPT 22 @ 7:00 PM
The Wooly
Cómo Ganar Enemigos/ How To Win
enemies
Director, Gabriel Lichtmann •ARGENTINA• 2015 •
78 min •Spanish with English Subtitles • Rate:
• Cast: Fabian Arenillas, Eugenia Capizzano, Carla
Quevedo
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Emily Hind
SATURDAY,SEPT @ 7:00 PM
Thomas Center
La Vaca / Holy Cow
Director, Mendel Samayoa •GUATEMALA• 2011•
97 min• Spanish with English Subtitles• Rate:
• Cast: Claudia Bollat, Jorge Sanz and Monica
Walter
Film Introduction and Q& A by Dr. Antonio Sajid
López
When a shy young Jewish lawyer obsessed with crime
novels turns a chance encounter with a beautiful woman
into a date ending in his bed, it all seems too good to be
true. But things aren’t always what they seem, however, for
as soon as he wakes up he finds his financial savings, and
the beautiful woman, gone. Inspired by his favorite
detective novels, he is convinced he was set up and
begins to looks for clues like one of his gumshoe heroes in
his beloved books. As he pieces together the puzzle of the
grand theft, he realizes that his closest allies may be his
biggest enemies. What began as a love story becomes the
caper to end all capers in this sexy crowd-pleasing
comedy set against the background of Buenos Aires.
When famous American archeologist Albert Frederick
Thomas Jackson dies in his beloved small town in
Guatemala, a whole series of misadventures is triggered by
the rather peculiar items outlined in his will, an important
part of which involves a cow named Tracy. These
eccentricities are matched only by the arrival of the two
wives — and, seemingly, two heirs to the fortune — of 'Mr.
Thomas' (an American named Betty Hooter and a
Guatemalan named Soledad) in the town of San Pedro El
Bajo. Add in a couple of shady lawyers and a mischievous
taxi driver and you have an offbeat comedy about the
differences between urban and rural Guatemala, and the
even more complex comedic possibilities of the disparity
between what is written and what is real. A delight. English
sub-titles.
CINExperimental - Monday, September 12, @7:00pm
The Wooly|25 S.E. 2nd Pl, Gainesville, FL 32601
About the short film creators
Ánima/ Spirit
ARGENTINA, 2015, 6’36”, Spanish with English subtitles • Director,
Clara Frías
Clara Frías
1981. Clara Frias was born and lives in Buenos Aires. At
first she focused on illustration and painting. She gets into
photography and film study. With his films and videos he
participated in numerous international festivals.
Currently
Currently, she attended her film "ánima" in the BAFICI
and FLAVIA festival won the 1st prize in the official
competition at the Festival of video art in Latin America,
she works as independent film editor Narcisa Hirsch and
artists of his stature. CINE organization Zap gives
workshops and high school. It is in pre-production on his
next feature
Camal/ Salughterhouse
ECUADOR, 2011, 12’21” B/W, Spanish with English subtitles
Miguel Alvear
Miguel Alvear. Ecuador, 1964. Visual artista,
filmmaker. His work has been included in several
Latin American experimental film anthologies. He has
participated in numerous international exhibits such as
the 55th Venice Bienale, Bienal de la Imagen en
Movimiento, Bienal de La Habana and other. In 2009
he published a study on Ecuador’s amateur film
scene (“Ecuador Bajo Tierra”).
,
Ana Clara Soler
Ana Clara Soler, Argentina (1984)
2012 –Film Lab (program)–Professors: Andrés Di Tella
and Martin Rejtman - Torcuato Di Tella University–Art
Department.
2009/2010 - Torcuato Di Tella University –Art
Department –Artists Program Director: Inés Katzenstein Senior Tutor: Jorge Macchi.
2002/2011- National College of Arts (IUNA) Bachelor
of Visual Arts, major in
Painting.
2013 - Fugitive (short) - Animasivo – Experimental
Animation Festival – Mexico DF –Curated by LEC.
2014 - Residency in El Ranchito - Matadero - Madrid,
Spain.
2016 - International short competition - Fribourg
Amor Fugitivo
ARGENTINA, 2012,4’08” •Director, Ana Clara Soler
International Film Festival Switzerland.
La Mar Brava
PERÚ, 2011, 19’32” • Director, Bryan Rodriguez
Bryan Rodriguez
Born in Callao, Peru Bryan Rodriguez harvests a
multidisciplinary practice nationally and
internationally through the kinesthetic informed by
the residue of historical bondage (The way black
and brown people move, exchange, multiply, think,
fuck as result). Through this, he seeks world building
as a method to explore an alternative to the
oppressive realities existent in an anti-black/anticolored context. And in taking on the task of a
world builder, he relays on the sensibilities /rejections
/ general lens of his community (other world
builders) to trigger a praxis motivated dialogue.
Rodriguez’s work has been exhibited in various
galleries, museums and festivals, including The
Queens Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, LA GALERÍA at Villa Victoria Center for the
Arts, SOMA Mexico, El Galpón Espacio, Zona 30, The Beland Gallery at the Essex Arts Center,
Grace Space, Muestra Marrana, White Space Gallery, International Festival of The New Latin
American Cinema in Havana, Cuba, Festival Internacional de Lima Independiente in which he
received a national award for his film La Mar Brava. He is a recent contributor to the third
volume of Emergency INDEX Publication.Rodriguez received his BFA from The School of The
Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in 2014. He was a member of the group!Que Lástima!
which questioned and revised notions of Latinidad as a self-identified/identified thought.
Currently Rodriguez is co-curator and co-founder of artist/curatorial team Sweety’s, a space
and idea prioritizing the presence and work of brown and black artists.
Machinery
Perú, 2012, 3’53” • Director, Luis “Lucho” Soldevilla
Luis “Lucho” Soldevilla
Lima – Peru 1978. Master in Media Design and
Communication (Lens-Based Media specialization) at
the Piet Zwart institute in Rotterdam. Licentiate degree
in audiovisual realization from the Faculty of
Communications of the University of Lima. Bachelor
degree in cinema and video of the same Faculty.
Lives and works in Lima.
Luis work has a strong bond with his academic
background, film-making. He takes the
cinematographic language and merged it with the
expressive potential of the space. In his installations
the physicality of the image works as backbone of the
narrative, exploring diverse connotations of the social
landscape, and how the urban enviroments has
become
Pequeno Poema em Prata
BRAZIL,2006, 3’49” • Director, Cristiana Miranda
Cristiana Miranda
Cristiana Miranda, born and lives in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Filmmaker, visual artist and curator. Has made
many experimental films exploring the poetry and
aesthetics possibilities of hand processing the film
negative, which were shown at International Film
Festivals in Brazil, France, Spain, USA, Australia, Russia,
Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. Was curator of the
Film Festival Mostra do Filme Livre, held in the city of
Rio de Janeiro in 2013 and of the Experimental Film
Program at the Festival Cine Musica, held in the city of
Conservatória, Brazil. She was part of the jury of the
International Film Festival Signes de Nuit, held in Paris in
2012. Organized and curated, in 2013, the
experimental film program concerned to Brazilian and
French contemporaries films, held in the Cinemateca
do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro: Movies and Poetry, a navigation between fogs
and dreams. In 2015 she organized the first festival specifically directed to experimental film in
Rio de Janeiro: DOBRA Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental.
EVENTS SCHEDULE
We recommend arriving 10 minutes early to the event.
Unity through Culture”, Latin American Craft Exhibit
Cone Park Library Branch|2801 E. University Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32641
September 1 – October 15
This exhibit is an outreach of the 12th Gainesville Latino Film Festival (September 8 – 24).
Also this exhibit was possible with the support of Alternatives Global Market Place
www.alternativesglobalmarketplace.com .
Info: info@GainesvilleLatinoFilmFestival.com
FAMILY EVENT: Greeting from the Andes & Caminandes short films
Florida Museum of Natural History|3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, Fl. 32608
Saturday, September 10, 10:00am -1:00pm
Enjoy an amazing morning at Florida Museum of Natural History with the Gainesville Latino Film Festival as we
feature the art and culture of the Andes. Visit our “Crafting Ethnic Identity in the Andes and Mesoamerica:
Highlights from the Doughty Folk Art Collection” exhibit. Enjoy animated shorts by the award winning production
team Caminandes. Llamas, alpacas and the national horse of Peru, The Peruvian Paso, will be at the museum
for visitors to meet. Seldom seen Andean artifacts from the museum’s ethnographic collection will also be on
display.
Este acontecimiento es para toda la familia y se presentará en inglés y en español.
Info:
Tiffany Ireland,
Museum Educator tireland@flmnh.ufl.edu
352-273-2061
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/
Admission –Free
Llamigos
Gran Dillama
Llama Drama
LECTURE: War and the Neoliberal Condition: Death and Vulnerability in Contemporary Mexico
UF Smathers Library East | 208 Smathers Library; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
Thursday, September 15, 5:30pm
War and the Neoliberal Condition: Death and Vulnerability in Contemporary Mexico by Dr.
Dr. Ignacio Sanchez,
Lecture organized by UF Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere.
Since former president Felipe Calderón declared a full-in war on drug cartels, Mexico has been the site of an
astonishing number of violent deaths: over 125,000 in the most recent counts. While official explanations of this
staggering figure generally attribute it to collateral damage in the war, this paper contends that the
phenomenon runs deeper. The paper will focus on the ideas of “precarization” and "vulnerability” as essential to
understand death in contemporary Mexico, and will attempt to show, through different cultural artifacts (from
literature, cinema, journalism and the arts), that death is rather a symptom of two intertwining factors. On the one
hand, the “war on drugs” is in reality a set of multiple wars that recently escalated longstanding conflicts
between different actors in Mexico, from class antagonisms to political confrontation. On the other, I will contend
that these wars are the effect of the economic and political precarization of Mexicans in the neoliberal era,
when the erosion of citizenship, economic enfranchisement and other social achievements of the 20th century
has rendered people vulnerable to be killed. This phenomenon will be explored through three figures: the Central
American migrant, the recruits of drug cartels and the bystander.
Info: http://www.humanities.ufl.edu
Light the Night, Hispanic Heritage Month UF
UF Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, University of Florida | 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611
Friday, September 16 6:00PM – 8:00PM
Opening Ceremony of the University of Florida’s Hispanic Heritage Month wants you to be the shining light in
someone’s night. The Hispanic-Latinx community of the greater Gainesville area is invited to feast and enjoy an
evening that defines how a little support goes a long way, an idea enforced by Denice Frohman, an awardwinning poet who uses her experience as a queer woman from a multicultural background to explore the
intersections of race, gender and sexuality to tie together how one should embrace who they are and the
opportunities they are given.
Info:
Gabriella Nuñez,
UF HHM Executive Director
hispanicheritagemonth@gmail.com
Admission: Free
CUENTOS - Bilingual Story time Series (Spanish & English)
Library Partnership Branch | Alachua County Library District
1130 NE 16th
Ave, Gainesville,
FL 32601
La raniposita
de colores/The
colorful
froggy-fly
August 27, Saturday at 11:AM
The frog alone in his pond and resting under the sun, did not realize that the butterfly, confusing his skin with a
rock, laid her eggs on it, and one of the them hatched and out came the “Raniposa,” a new species!
Info: info@latinawomensleague.org
La selva tiene sed / The Jungle is Thirsty
September 24th, Saturday at 11:00 AM
This was a jungle that was feeling sad. It was beginning to lack water. All the inhabitants of the area got
together, discussed the situation and came up with a solution. Let’s see what they did.
El coyote y la oveja / The coyote and the lamb
October 29, Tuesday, 9:30 AM
On a farm at the foot of a mountain, there once lived a little lamb. Coyote was obviously interested in eating
the little lamb. The latter, however, began to imagine ways to trick the wolf so that it wouldn’t eat her. And so
she did! Come join us and learn how she did it
La boda de la Xdzunúum /The Legend of the Wedding of the Xdzunuúm
November 26, Saturday, 11:00 AM
Standing on the branch of a tree, a hummingbird called Xdzunuúm in the Maya language, was crying upon
looking at her small unfinished nest. The little bird wanted to finish it as she was preparing to get married.
However, she was having problems coming up with everything she needed for that. Come and learn how the
problem was solved.
LIVE SALSA CONCERT: GILBERTO DE PAZ & TROPIX
Bo Diddley Community Plaza, Gainesville, Florida, 111 E. University Avenue
on the corner of SE 1st Street and E. University Avenue in the heart of Historic Gainesville, Florida
Friday, September 23rd
8:00 – 10:00pm
The Latina Women’s League partnered its A Night in El Barrio project with Free Friday Concert to present an
event during Gainesville Latino Film Festival, in Celebration of the Latino/ Hispanic Heritage Month. A Latin night
with “el Maestro de la Salsa” Gilberto de Paz and TROPIX.
Info: www.gvlculturalaffairs.org
FESTIVAL GUESTS AND SPEAKERS
DANIELA RINCÓN
Daniela was born and raised in Mexico City and fell in love with the written word thanks to her great grandfather who
taught her the unparalleled works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Pedro Calderón de la Barca, leading her to study
acting and receiving her diploma in 2010.
After graduating she worked as a dubbing actress and translator for different dubbing studios in Mexico City as well as a
theater high school teacher. In 2013, after a long casting process, she was selected to play the leading role in Canana’s
film Paraíso. Shortly after the movie was finished, she has gotten involved with the Body Positive movement. She is
dedicated to her blog, YouTube Channel and Facebook Page where she has created a community, which gives her
purpose and meaning.
TACE HEDRICK
Associate Professor Tace Hedrick received her Phd in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa. She has taught in
the English Department and Women's Studies since 1997. Her areas of interest are US (Afro) Latina Studies, feminist theory,
women's popular writing, and intellectual history across the Americas. She has published two books and many journal
articles as well as attending many Latino and Latin American Studies conferences.
ANDREA HOLBROOK
Andrea Holbrook- Wagman is President of Holbrook Travel based in Gainesville, Florida for over 40 years. Founded by
Giovanna Holbrook in 1974, Holbrook specializes in educational and natural history programs throughout Latin America,
Africa, and points beyond, Holbrook works with teachers, professors, and life-long learners as well as birders photographers,
and ecotourism travelers. The Holbrook family also owns and operates Selva Verde Lodge and Private Reserve in the
lowland tropical rainforests of Costa Rica. Andrea has been involved in sustainable tourism as a Board member of the
Sarapiquí Conservation Learning Center, an NGO closely associated with Selva Verde whose mission it is to link
communities and conservation through education and community rural tourism.
She was honored to be asked to introduce El Salvador: Cuatro Puntos Cardinales/ El Salvador: Four Cardinals Points, by
director Javier Kafie about El Salvador. Holbrook is opening El Salvador as a destination in 2017 / 2018 and was thrilled to
see a piece reflecting the cultural, social and ecological diversity of the country.
Andrea is married to Robert Wagman, a Professor in the Classics department at the University of Florida and is the mother of
Agatha Wagman, an 8th grader at Howard Bishop Middle School and a pianist.
ROSANA RESENDE
Rosana Resende is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests focus on the differentiated impacts of globalization
and neoliberalism on the lived experiences of Latin Americans across social sectors. Specifically, her work addresses how
race, gender, and social class intersect with questions of urbanization, labor, and tourism to engender continuously
renegotiated social relations in Latin America. She obtained her Ph.D. in Anthropology and graduate certificate in Latin
American Studies at the University of Florida in 2009. Resende received a Fulbright Postdoctoral U.S. Scholar fellowship to
conduct field research in Brazil in 2014, studying the shifting relations between domestic workers and their female
employers. Her teaching interests focus on courses centering on sites of inequality in contemporary urban Latin America as
well as courses focused on Brazil. She is a lecturer in the Center for Latin American Studies and an affiliate of the Center for
Women’s Studies and Gender Research. Resende is passionate about working closely with students, particularly those from
underrepresented groups, and is an active collaborator with Hispanic-Latino Affairs (HLA) on campus. Resende also serves
as the Assistant Director for the Florida-Brazil Linkage Institute as well the faculty advisor for three student organizations.
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.
IGNACIO SANCHEZ PRADO
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. His
areas of research are Mexican literary, film and cultural studies; Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture and
the uses of canon theory and world literature theory in Latin American studies. He is the author of El canon y sus formas: La
reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (2002), Poesía para nada (2005), Naciones intelectuales.
Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959) (2009. Winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Book Award) and
Intermitencias americanistas. Estudios y ensayos escogidos (2004-2010) (2012). His most recent book, Screening
Neoliberalism. Mexican Cinema 1988-2012, was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2014.
Prof. Sánchez Prado’s teaching in Romance Languages and Literatures is focused on 20th- and 21st-century Mexican
literature, film and culture, as well as Latin American critical thought and literary theory. In addition, for the Latin American
Studies Program, he teaches Survey of Latin American Cultures, Seminar on Urban Cultures in Latin America and other
classes on cultural studies. Currently, he serves as Latin American Review Editor for the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and
as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Latin American Studies Program.
EMILY HIND
EMILY HIND is an Associate Professor with the University of Florida and has published two books of interviews with Mexican
writers, as well as a book of criticism on the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska. She was a
Fulbright scholar in Mexico in 2015, and her essay on Rosario Castellanos won the Feministas Unidas essay prize. Hind has
published more than twenty articles on Mexican literature and film in academic journals, and nearly as many chapters in
books of collected criticism. She has forthcoming interviews with Luis Felipe Lomelí and Guillermo Fadanelli, and is at work
on a book about Mexican men writers.
CHARLES A. PERRONE
Charles A. Perrone is Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Culture and Literatures in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese Studies, and Concentration Coordinator of Brazilian Studies in the Center for Latin American Studies, at the
University of Florida. He is the author of Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985 (University of Texas Press,
1989), Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry since Modernism (Duke University Press, 1996), and Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas
(University Press of Florida, 2010). He is co-editor of Crônicas brasileiras: a Reader and Brazilian Popular Music and
Globalization (University Press of Florida, 2014, 2001). In addition to many articles and book chapters on Brazilian literature
and popular music, he has translated numerous contemporary Brazilian writers, most notably poets such as Augusto de
Campos and Paulo Leminski.
ELIZABETH GINWAY
M. Elizabeth Ginway is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida,
where she teaches a wide variety of courses in Brazilian culture and literature, along with language classes in Portuguese.
She is author of Brazilian Science Fiction: Cultural Myths and Nationhood in the Land of the Future (2004), which was
nominated for the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize by Bucknell University Press. This book was published in Portuguese
translation in Brazil in 2005. Several essays on Brazilian science fiction and fantasy also appeared in a volume called Visão
Alienígena [Alien Vision] (Devir, 2010), and she co-edited a volume of essays, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and
Practice (Palgrave, 2012) with J. Andrew Brown. She has published articles in Alambique, Brasil/Brazil, Extrapolation,
Foundation, Hispania, Luso-Brazilian Review, Modern Language Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Science Fiction Studies. In
addition to teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian literature, she has extended her SF interests to Spanish
America, and is currently working on comparative study on science fiction and fantasy called “Transexuality, Cyborgs and
the Undead: The Body in Brazilian and Mexican Science Fiction,” in addition to teaching courses in Spanish and English on
Latin American Science Fiction.
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.
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.
ANTONIO-SAJID LÓPEZ
Antonio-Sajid López is professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Ana G. Méndez University System in Metro
Orlando Campus. He has published three books: Canciones de cuna para un hombre y una ciudad (Búho, 2009); Efímeras
instancias (Lulu, 2011); and Entre mi sexo y mis nervios (Lulu, 2014). He is currently working on a research on Latin American
Queer Theater.
López received his Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in Spanish and French from the Pontifical Catholic
University of Puerto Rico in 2003. He earned his M. A. in Hispanic Studies from the same institution in 2010. That year, he
joined the doctoral program in Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He received
his Ph. D. from this institution in 2015 and also a certificate in Latin American Studies.
GILBERTO DE PAZ & TROPIX
Tropix is a tropical fusion band based in Gainesville, Florida specializing in bringing Latin flavor to any event. Tropix has its
roots in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico and performs music from all over Latin America and Spain along with American
standards and classics. From merengue and salsa, bachata and cumbia to disco and ballads, crossover bilingual
songs…and everything in between. Tropix is composed of five core members, Gilberto de Paz leader/vocals/piano and
guitar, Bruni Gonzales de Paz vocals and percussion, Waldemar Cabrera vocals, guitar and percussion, Laura de Paz
Cabrera vocals and percussion and Jose “Joe” Rivera Cepeda percussion, trumpet and back vocals.
2016 GLFF GRAPHIC DESIGNER
PATTY HART
The Santa Fe College graphic design program has participated in the project to design the GLFF poster and publicity
materials for the past several years.
Patty is a retired professional engineer who recently launched a new freelance career in digital media and graphic design.
The 12th Gainesville Latino Film Festival 2015 is made possible thanks
to our Sponsors, Partners, Friends and Volunteers!!
Sponsors
Paul & Polly Doughty
Kathryn Kidder
Amalia Alvarez
Corporate Sponsor
Constance Gesualdi
Carol Meyer
The Williams-Condor Family
This event funded in part by the City of
Gainesville, Parks, Recreation and Cultural
Affairs Department.
Venues Sponsors
Events Partners
Gilberto de Paz & TROPIX
Free Fridays Concert Series
Films Distributors
Films Sponsors
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Department of English
John P. Howard Accounting
Joakim & Allison Nordqvist
Family Events Partners
Exhibit Events
Business
and
Community Organizations
Sergio Reyes
Guillermo Díaz
GSE Engineering & Consulting Inc.
Flaco’s Cuban Bakery & Coffee
Media Partners
Printing
Opening Reception Sponsor
Closing Reception Sponsor
GREATES APPRECIATION TO OUR DISTINGUISHE PRESENTERS
Daniela Rincón
Ignacio Sanchez Prado
Ericka Ghersi
Tace Hedrick
Rosana Resende
Emily Hind
Andrea Holbrook -Wagman
Antonio Sajid López
Charles A. Perrone
SPECIAL THANKS
Clara Sotelo
Norman J.W. Goda
Elizabeth Ginway
Hernán Jiménez
Miguel Alvear
Cristiana Miranda
Mary Risner
Raul Villarreal
Alejandro Rios
Elizabeth A. King
Jorge Ibañez
Paul Losch
Carmen Cuenca
Carolina Ceballos Diaz
Claudia Canon
Gabriella Nuñez
Bunt Backline Event Services
Brenda Banales
Lillian Guevara Castro
Andrea Cabassa Miskimen
Andrea Medina
Carla Moure
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Ana Clara Soler
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Bonnie Effros
Jack Kugelmass
Eduardo Machuca
Cornelia Holbrook
Rebecca Fitzsimmons
Joakim Nordqvist
Agustina Bonaventura
Janet Todd
Erick Breur
Eric Lenasbunt
Carissa Cullum
Andrea Cabassa Miskimen
Sarah L. Pattison
Amelia Dempere
Olga Rivera
Luis Hueck
Bryan Rodriguez
Bernardo Quesney
Martha Berdat
Sophia Krzys Acord
Vilma Fuentes
Tiffany Ireland
Wanda de Paz
Alora Haynes
Sid Dobrin
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Clara Frías
Luis Soldevilla
Pilar Morales
Michael Curry
Coco Fusco
Linda Friedman Ramirez
April FItzGerald
Erica J. Chatman
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Alisa Woofter
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