aluCine Catalogue 2016 - aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival

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Congratulations aluCine
on your 16th Anniversary!
ART SQUARE
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334 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
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WELCOME TO THE 16TH
aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival!
June 01-05, 2016
alucineTO
#aluCine16#alucineAMIGO
alucine festival
/aluCineFestival
@alucineTO
aluCine:
[conj. transverb] to hallucinate
1. m. fam. wonder, marvel, fantasy
2. loc. adj. brilliant, mind-blowing
3. (alucinado) m. fam. eccentric, visionary, imaginative
Cine:
1. (local) cinema
2. (art) cinema
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Festival Venues
Festival Schedule and Ticketing
About aluCine
Thank You
Festival Greetings
Acknowledgements
aluCine Gratefully Acknowledges
2016 Jury & Awards
Crossroards (1980s)
Suspended Memories (1990s)
Nomadicity: Wherever You Go (Early 2000s)
La tierra y la sombra
Life: To Live or Die in Latin America
The State of the Environment
We Like It Like That
Short For Shorties
South: Antarctic Calling Invisible Predators
Opening Reception & Discussion Panel
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Panelists
Closing Night Party - Awards Ceremony + Performances
Performers
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aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival
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FESTIVAL VENUES
FILM VENUES
ST. CLAIR AVENUE W.
CHRISTIE ST.
1
DAVENPORT ST.
DUPONT ST.
Jackman Hall
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas St W, Toronto
Tel: (416) 979-6660 ext: 467
Royal Cinema
2 608 College St, Toronto, ON M6G 1B4
Tel: (416) 466-4400
BLOOR ST.
ST. GEORGE ST.
BATHURST ST.
4
SPADINA ST.
CLINTON ST.
OSSINGTON AVE.
DUFFERIN ST.
LANSDOWNE AVE.
DUNDAS ST. W.
2
COLLEGE ST.
OFF-SCREEN VENUES
3
Cinecycle
129 Spadina Ave. Toronto
Tel: (416) 971-4273
4
Monarch Tavern
12 Clinton St, Toronto, ON M6J 2N8
Tel: (416) 531-5833
1
QUEEN ST. W.
3
RICHMOND ST. W.
ADELAIDE ST. W.
KING ST. W.
If you require accessible or companion seating, please contact the Festival office no later tha 24 hours prior to a screening, so we can ensure
that your needs are met. You can reach us by calling (416) 548-8914 or by emailing us at admin@alucinefestival.com
Si usted requiere asientos accesibles, por favor pongase en contacto con la Oficina del Festival a mas tardar 24 horas antes de la proyeccion, para
poder garantizar que sus necesidades sean satisfechas. Puede comunicarse con nosotros llamando al (416) 548-8914 o por correo electronico a
admin@alucinefestival.com
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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AND TICKETING
Jackman Hall · Art Gallery Ontario
Royal Cinema
WEDNESDAY JUNE 1
THURSDAY JUNE 2
Cinecycle
Monarch Tavern
BOX OFFICE INFO
Special Feature Films: $15
Regular Screening: $10
Regular Screenings for Students and Seniors
(ID required): $8
Shorts for Shorties
Adults: $10 |Children: $8 | Siblings: $6 (under
12)
Crossroads (1980s)
Invisible Predators + Closing Night Party: $15
Closing Night Party ONLY: $10 (price at door)
Discussion Panel
Same day tickets will be available on site at
Box Office one hour before the screenings
commence. Cash only.
The nine film screenings are restricted to persons
18 years of age or older, according to the Ontario
Theatres Act. Exceptions: Shorts for Shorties.
The Opening Reception and Closing Night Party are
restricted to person 19 years of age or older.
7:00PM
Suspended Memories (1990s)
OPENING RECEPTION
Monarch Tavern
9:00PM Nomadicity: Wherever You Go
(Early 2000s)
10:00PM
6:00PM
9:00PM
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AND TICKETING
FRIDAY JUNE 3
La tierra y la sombra
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SATURDAY JUNE 4
SUNDAY JUNE 5
Short for Shorties
2:00PM
Sur: el llamado de la antártica
South: Antarctica Calling
4:00PM
Vida: vivir y morir en Latinoamérica
Life: To Live & Die in Latin America
5:00PM
The State of the Environment
7:00PM
9:00PM Closing Night Party
Awards Ceremony
Performances
Invisible Predators
6:30
7:30PM
9:00PM
ABOUT aluCine
+
1161 St. Clair Avenue West. Suite 22
Toronto, Ontario M6E 1B2
+1 (416) 548-8914
info@alucinefestival.com
www.alucinefestival.com
www.facebook.com/alucinefestival
www.twitter.com/aluCineTO
www.vimeo.com/user8970113
Charitable Number:
896725355RR0001
(Registered under Southern Currents)
aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival celebrates
and showcases excellence and innovation in
contemporary Latin American film and new media
works. Our annual festival functions as a vital
Canadian outlet for emerging and established
Latino filmmakers living in Canada, Latin America
and the diaspora, while our year-round screenings,
symposiums and workshops promote the
development of Latin film and culture in Toronto. In
all of our endeavours, aluCine strives to transgress
aesthetic, ideological and geographical borders
and to transcend pre-established notions of
representation as they pertain to Latin American
culture in Canada.
The Festival’s screenings, panel discussions and
social and cultural events attract and connect
filmmakers, media artists, programmers, buyers
and industry professionals. The works accepted
reflect the diversity of the Latin American culture.
Since its inception in 1995, aluCine Latin Film+Media
Arts Festival continues to evolve and reflect the
needs of its constituencies. aluCine was founded
as Southern Currents Film & Video Collective in
July of 1993 by Jorge Lozano, Ramiro Puerta and
Ricardo Acosta.
While the Spanish language creates a common
bond for the Hispanic community, our public is also
extremely diverse, based in part on the political
and socio-economic conditions of our members’
countries of origin. Our artistic vision is based
on diversity, as we seek to create platforms for
dialogue among film/video and new media artists,
curators and audiences in Canada, Latin America,
and throughout the diaspora.
With the help of funders, sponsors and other
community partners, aluCine is the premier of
Latin American film and media arts festivals in
Canada. The annual aluCine Film+Media Arts
Festival, in conjunction with aluCine’s year round
initiatives – including Free Community Screenings,
The Latin-American Cinema Masters Series
(ongoing), and our Paso a Paso/Step by Step
Video Training Workshops – fill a void in the artistic
and cultural landscapes of Toronto in which Latin
American filmmakers and media artists are often
underrepresented.
We are earnest in our role as advocates for the
Latino media arts community. We also believe
that it is important to recognize the need for our
cultural institutions to grow and expand to give a
sense of belonging to individuals in the region. As
one of the few Latin American media arts festivals
in Canada promoting independent productions,
aluCine provides a rare opportunity for LatinoCanadian artists to network and present their
works in a competitive international setting.
Welcome to aluCine!
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ABOUT aluCine
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alexandre Ramos
Christopher Trotman, Chair
Danilo Baracho
Eugene Weis
Jaime Escallon
Rosa Sarabia
ADVISORY BOARD
Charles C. Smith
Francisco Alvarez
Scott Miller Berry
Susan Douglas
Susan Lord
Victoria-Moufawad-Paul
PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
Sinara Rozo Perdomo, Artistic Director
Diana Cadavid, Programmer
Alan Abuchaibe
Alexandre Ramos
STAFF
Executive Director: Sinara Rozo-Perdomo
Festival Coordinator: Rhéanne Chartrand
Festival Assistant: Alejandra Higuera
Communications Coordinator: Alan Abuchaibe
Marketing Assistant: Ashley Meza
Digital Marketing Coordinator: Lis Mirabal
Traffic & Print Coordinator: Edison Dueñas
Media Production Specialist: Edison Osorio
Audiovisual Coordinator: Eunice Keitan
Marketing Intern: Susana Veliz
Festival Intern: Carlos Sanchez
Festival Intern: Marcela Lucia Rojas
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From left to right. Back row: Lis Mirabal, Rhéanne Chartrand, Edison Dueñas, Ashley Meza. Front row: Eunice Keitan, Edison
Osorio, Sinara Rozo-Perdomo, Diana Cadavid, Alan Abuchaibe. Missing: Alejandra Higuera, Carlos Sanchez, Susana Veliz.
DESIGN TEAM
Art Director: Luis Cisneros
Graphic Designer: Jose Aranguren
Graphic Designer: Juan Exposito
Catalogue Editors: Eugene Weis, Frederick Peters
FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY
The Edisons Media Masters
FESTIVAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
The Edisons Media Masters
THANK YOU
Alexandre Ramos
Alvaro Giron
Anh Dao
Anton Tab
Arturo Abuchaibe
Ben Donoghue
Brian Kent Gotro
Camilo Gislason
Carol Rego
Carolyn Peters
Christopher Trotman
Danilo Baracho
David Dacks
Diana Abuchaibe
Diana Zapata
Dora Cruz
Drew Hemler
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Emilio Puerta
Enrique Banos
Eugene Weis
Felipe Osorio
Fredrick Peters
Gary D Gish
German Gutierrez
Herlind Diaz
Jaime Escallón
Jose Neira
Jose Ortega
Julia Galvez
Julian Bustos
Karl Reinsalu
Kerry Pots
Leonardo Suarez
Liliana Nunez
Marcos Arriaga
Marina Fratella
Nafeesa Afridi
Nicolas Gislason
Ricardo Acosta
Rosa Sarabia
Ruth Wilford
Scott Miller Berry
Susie Cosack
Tracy Jenkins
Yauca De Almeida
ORGANIZATIONS
The Media Arts Network of Ontario/Réseau des arts médiatiques de l’Ontario
(MANO RAMO)
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)
Caribbean Tales International Film Festival
Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto (LAS@UofT)
Lula Music and Arts Centre
Movibeta
The Music Gallery
Uma Nota Culture
Skills for Change
Vtape
Winnipeg Film Group
..and to all of our amazing volunteers, a big THANK YOU!
Gracias.
FESTIVAL GREETINGS
Christopher A. Trotman
on Behalf of the Board of Directors
To have the opportunity to host a film festival here
in the city of Toronto is a privilege. We host people
from all around the world, who now call Toronto
their home, to learn about a culture and challenges
that are outside of their everyday lives, and provide
them with the opportunity to reflect. A film festival
is an enlightening, visceral, curious and sometimes
confusing experience.
For the past sixteen years, aluCine has been inviting
Torontonians to learn not only about the Latin
Canadian film industry, but also about the cultures
that inform the work of Latino-Canadian filmmakers. We’re excited to once again
present exceptional works of cinematography that expand your understanding
of what film can be, host difficult discussions, and of course - have a lot of fun
along the way.
Following one of our most successful festivals to date - aluCine’s Quinceañera
celebration in 2015 - we’ve decided to take a step back to reflect on how far
we’ve come, both from a Latin Canadian film perspective, and as a planet.
We’ll kick off #aluCine16 paying homage to foundational Latino-Canadian
filmmakers who paved the way for contemporary filmmakers by charting the
trajectory of Latin Canadian cinema over the last 20 years with our first-ever
special retrospective presentation, Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras: 20
Years of Latin Canadian Cinema. Our second and equally important theme for
#aluCine16 is the environment, and more specifically, global discussion around
the environmental impacts of climate change. We are impacted daily by the
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effects of global climate change in the air we breathe, the water we consume
and the land we traverse...sometimes, failing to take notice of the towns that are
no more, the reality and ramifications of the global drug trade, or the stark divide
between rich and poor in many parts of the world.
Every year of aluCine is special and full of newness, and this year is no exception.
I hope you enjoy yourself as you learn with us, listen and watch with us, dance
with us, drink with us, and experience all that Latin Canadian film has to offer.
Welcome to the 16th annual aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival!
Sinara Rozo Perdomo
Executive Director
I take immense pleasure in welcoming you to the
16th annual aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival!
As the oldest Latin American film festival in Canada,
we take the responsibility of organizing the annual
festival seriously, and every year, along with the Film
Selection Committee, we strive to showcase the
very best films we can secure from the hundreds of
entries.
As is customary, the Festival will showcase over 50
films by filmmakers from all over Canada and Latin
America. The Festival represents the great diversity
of themes and genres of Latino filmmaking from around the Latino diaspora.
aluCine serves as a vehicle to break the barriers created and perpetuated by
stereotypes and provoke the audience to challenge mainstream ideals of the
Latino identity by showing through film that Latinos are defined by more than 20
different nationalities and come from all socio-cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
FESTIVAL GREETINGS
This year’s Festival includes the first-ever retrospective of Latin Canadian cinema
called Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras: 20 years of Latin Canadian Cinema.
This special retrospective presentation aims to showcase the achievements and
talent of Latino-Canadian filmmakers and their contributions to the artistic identity
of the Canadian cultural landscape. We aim to situate their work in the context
of current debates about the changing nature of Latin American identity, and of
notions of identity as a whole, in the multifaceted context of globalization.
I am humbled to be opening Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras with Ramiro
Puerta’s film Cruceros / Crossroads as a homage to a man who – more than anyone
else in the country at that time – brought Latin American films to Toronto that went
on to acclaim at international film festivals and cinema distribution in Canada and
the United States.
This unique program will provide opportunities for artistic exchange between
Latin American and Canadian media artists, curators, programmers, and audiences
and will lead to an enriched dialogue about the role of independent filmmaking in
shaping the interconnected artistic identities of these different regions and cultural
groups. Furthermore, it will serve to promote dialogue and discussion that uses
the context of our 16th anniversary in 2016 as the starting point to consider how
the landscape of independent Latin Canadian media arts has evolved and is still
evolving. It is our hope that this project will lead to intangible cross-pollinations
between aluCine member’s work and audiences across the region.
I invite you to join the conversation by engaging with artistic films that question,
explore, and tell stories about the world in which we live and the current state of
the environment – the focus of this years’ curatorial vision.
Notable films at aluCine 2016 include feature film La tierra y la sombra, winner of
the Golden Camera at Cannes 2015, Historia de un Oso / Bear Story winner of the
2016 Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) and multiple award winning
documentary Los reyes del pueblo que no existe / Kings of Nowehere. Make sure
you watch these films!
Year after year, it is the unwavering support of our audiences, the financial
assistance of partner organizations, educational institutions, government agencies
and individuals who believe in aluCine that make this Festival possible. They
believe that, without culture in our lives, life would be unbearable. Nevertheless, the
Festival could not be possible without the talent of our filmmakers and generous
volunteers.
I am fortunate to lead a team of staff and more than 30+ committed volunteers,
including the Board of Directors, who work arduously to ensure the existence and
success of the annual aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival.
I proudly invite everyone to enjoy the Festival. Happy sweet sixteen aluCine!
I encourage people from all backgrounds to get immersed in our culture by
watching as many films as they can and attend our special events, which include
the Opening Night reception, a great panel discussion, a hot Boogaloo party and a
phenomenal Closing Night Party with incredible performances featuring aluCine’s
co-founder Jorge Lozano, accompanied by contemporary media artists in what
promises to be a memorable evening. And as always, we’ll be serving up the very
best of Latin American gourmet bocaditos.
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FESTIVAL GREETINGS
Kathleen Wynne
Premier of Ontario
On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am pleased
to extend warm greetings to everyone attending the
16th edition of the aluCine Latin Film Media Arts
Festival.
A healthy and vibrant arts community is vital to the
social and economic well-being of our province. The
arts play a key role in our everyday lives and are an
essential part of our shared culture — and the Latin
Canadian community continues to make a unique
contribution to the arts in Ontario. This festival
allows Ontarians the opportunity to familiarize themselves with issues in the Latin
community — and with the immense talent possessed by Latino artists.
I commend all those who have contributed to this long-running festival, including
the gifted filmmakers, staff, sponsors, supporters and donors who have tirelessly
worked to ensure this impressive showcase’s ongoing success.
I extend my appreciation to the aluCine Festival for providing a platform for Latin
artists to share their vision through film, new media installations, video performance
and video art.
Please accept my best wishes for an inspiring and memorable celebration.
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Melanie Joly
Minister of Canadian Heritage
Government of Canada
Arts and culture help build links between communities
all across the country. This is why our government
is committed to supporting events that put arts and
culture within Canadians’ reach, as the aluCine Film
and Media Arts Festival has done so well since 1995.
aluCine offers a showcase for creators from the Latin
American community and lets audiences in the Toronto
region discover their works. Screenings, workshops,
and encounters with filmmakers are all part of the lineup at this celebration of film
and video, which helps enrich our culture and broaden our horizons.
As Minister of Canadian Heritage, I would like to thank everyone who made this
year’s aluCine possible. Enjoy the festival!
FESTIVAL GREETINGS
Simon Brault
Canada Council for the Arts
Investing in creativity – the path to Canadian
prosperity
The future is now. Focusing on innovation is the
surest way to stay in step with and take advantage
of our changing world. We all have access to
an unlimited, renewable resource: the ability to
create, dream, imagine and re-invent our future. In
Canada, 671,000 cultural workers, including 140,000
professional artists, energize our social, human and
economic development. Culture’s contribution to the
GDP is close to $50 billion. Investing in creativity is the path to Canadian prosperity.
The Canada Council for the Arts is proud to support aluCine Latin Film+Media
Arts Festival , because art is serious business – for individuals, for society, for the
present and for our future.
Michael Coteau
Minister of Tourism, Culture and
Sport
Government of Canada
On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am pleased
to extend greetings to everyone attending the
aluCine 2016 Film + Media Arts Festival.
Since the first aluCine festival in 1995, this showcase
of Latin Canadian art and culture has become one of
Ontario’s most dynamic showcases of film and media
arts. This festival champions not only inclusion and
diversity, but also excellence in artistic expression.
I commend the hard working staff, volunteers, sponsors, donors and film
enthusiasts who have come together once again to make aluCine a celebration
of contemporary Latin American arts and culture in the province. I would also like
to thank the actors, directors and producers who are sharing their creativity and
vision with Ontarians.
Please accept my best wishes for a memorable festival. I am delighted to welcome
locals and visitors from outside Toronto, and I encourage you to take in the many
wonderful experiences that this vibrant and inclusive city is eager to share with
you.
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FESTIVAL GREETINGS
Adam Vaughan
M.P. for Spadina-Fort York
As Member of Parliament for Spadina-Fort-York, it
is my pleasure to welcome attendees, organizers,
and volunteers to the 2016 aluCine Film+Media Arts
Festival. Congratulations on yet another year of
enhancing our community’s artistic landscape.
The longest running Latin film festival in Canada,
aluCine has become a significant source of cultural
enrichment for moviegoers and filmmakers alike.
Now in its 16th year, the Festival continues to foster
creativity through a commitment to showcasing
diverse perspectives on screen.
By featuring the works of both emerging and established Latin American and Latin
Canadian filmmakers, aluCine provides a key venue for visual expression, all while
celebrating the extraordinary diversity of the Latino communities in Canada and
around the world.
Thank you to all those involved for your passion, creativity, and hard work which
make this incredible event a reality year after year.
Joe Cressy
Councillor, City of Toronto
Bienvenidos todos, and welcome to the aluCine
Festival, Canada’s longest running celebration of
Latin American Film and Media Arts.
As Torontonians, much of our collective identity
builds on the foundations laid by the myriad cultures
that have come to call this place home. Among the
many peoples who contribute to our civic mosaic,
the tradition of revolutionary filmmaking out of South
and Central America present a profound contribution
to the conversations surrounding race, place and
identity within our city.
With works from a range of disciplines and formats, from experimental shorts to
feature length documentary films, new media installations and a number of great
performances, we are excited for this truly pan American showcase of powerful
narratives from Latino-Canadians, and the broader Latin diaspora.
Finally I wanted to give a special thanks to the Southern Currents Film and Video
Collective for all their hard work and to The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario
Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Trillium Foundation for their
continued support. Together we are excited to present the 16th anniversary of the
aluCine Festival, it is truly an honour for us to host a celebration of this caliber.
Once again, welcome to aluCine and I hope you all enjoy the festivities.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Heartfelt thanks to the ongoing support of our funders who for years have given
aluCine the possibility to present an unparalleled opportunity to share new and
alternative perspectives from Latin American’s creativity, and for appreciating
the vitality of our communities within our boundaries and beyond. Your vision
and generosity continues to keep this festival alive and allows us to bring
the best of Latin American independent filmmaking to Toronto. Your support
recognizes the importance of aluCine to the cultural fabric of Canada’s artistic
landscape:
The Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts
Council, and Toronto Arts Council.
Many, many thanks to our board members, staff and festival interns:
(LIFT), V-Tape, Cinema Politica, The Leap Manifesto, Inside Out Toronto LGBT
Film Festival, Planet In Focus, Toronto Environmental Alliance, Lula Music and
Arts Centre, Uma Nota Culture, UrbanArts Community Arts Council, Panamerican
Food Festival, Latin American Canadian Art Projects (LACAP), Hot Docs Canadian
International Documentary Film Festival, The Music Gallery.
And BIG thank you to our sponsors and supporting / community partners:
Art Square, Bocaditos Latinos, Baila Boogaloo Dance Company, Yauca’s Lounge,
Sparkleen Dental Hygiene, Pancho y Emiliano, High Park Nissan, Pancho’s Bakery,
Paola Ortiz Cosmetics, Luz Arte Accessories, Toronto Tropical / Andres Orbegozo,
Uma Nota Culture, Rumba Buena, Skills for Change.
Danilo Baracho, Jaime Escallón, Alexandre Ramos, Rosa Sarabia, Christopher
Trotman, Eugene Weis, Sinara Rozo Perdomo, Diana Cadavid, Rhéanne Chartrand,
Alan Abuchaibe, Alejandra Higuera, Ashley Meza, Lis Mirabal, Edison Dueñas,
Edison Osorio, Eunice Keitan, Carlos Sanchez, Marcela Lucia Rojas, Susana Veliz,
Luis Cisneros, Jose Aranguren, Juan Exposito.
Special thanks to our media partners:
CHHA 1610 AM Radio Voces Latinas, 360FM.CA, Correo Canadiense, Toronto
Hispanos, Hispanos en Canada. Ca, Now What, Alma Latina Online Magazina,
Kbuena radio.
Thank You to our jury members and panelists:
Laura Good, Ananya Ohri, Hudson Moura, Alejandro Ronceria, Ricardo Acosta,
Jorge Lozano, Eva-Lynn Jagoe.
Big ups to our co-presenters:
Latin American Studies Program at the University of Toronto, Canadian Filmmakers
Distribution Centre (CFMDC), Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
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aluCine GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES
FUNDERS
an Ontario government agenc
y
un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontari
o
MEDIA PARTNERS
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
aluCine GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES
SILVER
BRONZE
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
CHROME
2016 JURY & AWARDS
Awards Ceremony on Sunday June, 5th • 9:00PM
CineCycle • 129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON M5A 1J7
aluCine’s Festival awards exist to reward the talent, creativity and unique
filmmaking capabilities of latin American artists and their ability to move
aduciences with their innovative and inspiring w ork. We celebrate each of
their distinct styles and the unique lens through which they view the world.
Laura Good
Senior Programming Coordinator TIFF
Laura Good programmes for TIFF Film Circuit, the
outreach division of the the Toronto International Film
Festival, curates the year-round Short Cuts Monthly
series at TIFF Bell Lightbox and programmes both feature
and short film for the Seattle International Film Festival.
Hudson Moura
Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese at the University
of Toronto.
Hudson Moura is an Assistant Professor at the Department
of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Toronto. He
teaches Luso-Hispanic cinema and literature. Presently
he is working in the post-production of a documentary
featuring Brazilian-Canadian dancer Newton Moraes. In
addition, he serves as a film programmer and workshop
facilitator in international film festivals in Toronto.
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Ananya Ohri
Executive Director at the Regent Park Film Festival.
Ananya Ohri holds a Master’s degree in Cinema and
Media Studies from York University where she researched
participatory documentary processes, ranging from
community based video work in India and Canada, to online
cyber-community video creations. Until recently, she has
sat on the board of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, as
well as the advisory committee for the LCO Media Co-op
in Kenya. Ananya has recently gone back to making her own work and
is really enjoying participating in festivals from the perspective of the
artist. She is the Toronto Arts Council’s 2016 Cultural Leaders Lab Fellow.
Alejandro Ronceria
Director
Alejandro Ronceria is an internationally acclaimed and
award-winning director, choreographer, producer based in
Canada with an extensive and illustrious career in multiple
artistic disciplines. He has created and produced largescale productions both nationally and internationally.
Most recently, he was a Director/Choreographer for
Almalgama, a new work commissioned by the City of
Toronto for TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games. As well, he
also served as Director / Co-Producer of the Opening Night Showcase
for the Aboriginal Pavilion held during the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am
Games. As well, Alejandro choreographed a segment of the Welcome
from the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada for the opening ceremony of
the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Alejandro is the co-founder/
founding artistic director (1996-2001) of the first Aboriginal Dance
Program in North America at The Banff Center for the Arts. Alejandro
was one of the pioneers of dancefilm as a unique medium in Canada. In
1996, his dancefilm A Hunter Called Memory was an official selection at
the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Clermont
– Ferrand and Sheffield. In 2004, he was nominated for a Dora Mayor
Award for Best Choreography forThe Art Show. In 2010, Alejandro was
the first recipient to graduate with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from
York University in Dance Dramaturgy and the first to hold this degree
from a Canadian university. He has since been the recipient of numerous
Canada Council for the Arts awards and has served on juries for dance.
aluCine Best Film Award:
All films are eligible, sponsored by aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts
Festival • $500 Cash Prize.
Best Animated Film:
All animated films are eligible • $500 Cash Prize.
aluCine Best Documentary Film:
All animated films are eligible • $500 Cash Prize.
aluCine Audience Award:
All films are eligible.
aluCine Children’s Choice Award:
Kids will be able to choose the best film from our Shorts for
Shorties program..
WIN WITH aluCine 2016!
The 16th annual aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival takes place from
June 1-5, 2016 and we’re celebrating our “Sweet Sixteen” by giving away
8 amazing prizes to our audience members...and winning them couldn’t
be easier!
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JUNE 1-5
FILMS
Royal Cinema
608 College St.
Jackman Hall
Art Gallery Ontario · 317 Dundas St W.
Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras: 20 years of Latin Canadian Cinema
On the occasion of our 16th anniversary, we propose a new
curatorial initiative called Crossing Borders / Cruzando
Fronteras that reflects on twenty years of Latin Canadian media
arts production in the greater context of the Latino-Canadian
film history. In her essay Nations, Pollinations and Dislocations
Professor Elena Feder writes: “it was evident that, by 1999,
the process was indeed well under way. Not only had film and
video makers who had immigrated from Latin America over the
past 30 years already begun to articulate a diasporic Latinø
identity formation that was distinctly Canadian, but increased
contact between their Canadian-born counterparts and Latin
American culture as a whole, both local and imported, was also
beginning to leave a mark on previous and, to a foreigner’s eyes,
paradoxically amorphous notions of Canadian national identity,
in subtle but permanent ways”. In the context of a truly pannational Canadian cinema, Latino cinema stands out for fulfilling
a number of achievements that are unique to it.
Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras is designed to,
introduce Canadian audiences to the rich and varied history of
Latin American and Latino film and media art and, to generate
debates about their impact and importance, among both Latino
and non-Latino Canadian independent media practitioners
engaged, in some way or other, in the cross-national traffic of
ideas and images traversing the continent since the early sixties.
Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras: 20 Years of
Latin Canadian Cinema is a special two-day retrospective
presentation showcasing the creativity and achievements of
independent Latino-Canadian filmmakers from the 1980s to
2000s, highlighting their integral contributions to the artistic
identity of the Canadian cultural landscape.
Encompassing more than 20 films of all genres and formats,
Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras will be presented at
the Royal Cinema on June 1st and 2nd, 2016. This is the first
time such a retrospective will be presented on Latin Canadian
filmmaking, as Latino-Canadian media artists are not widely
represented in the larger Canadian arts and culture milieu.
As the foremost organization advancing Latin Canadian
filmmaking and supporting the presentation of works by Latin
diasporic artists, aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival hopes
that Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras will open up a larger
platform for the appreciation of Latin Canadian filmmaking,
both past and present.
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts
CROSSROADS
(1980s)
CROSSROADS (1980s)
CROSSROADS (1980s)
Royal Cinema · 608 College St · General $10 · Students/Seniors: $8
Wednesday, June 1 · 7:00PM
Royal Cinema
Co-presented by:
Crucero / Crossroads
Tampon Thieves
Under The Table
1982 • Canada • 28’ • Fiction
1984 • Canada • 22’ • Experimental
1984 • Canada • 25’ • Documentary
This comic tour of Latino life in Toronto
centers on Verdecchia’s stage persona:
the Argentinian-born Toronto actor
Guillermo, and the inflated stereotype
of Wideload. Guillermo is caught
between fixed borders and alienating
cultures; he is displaced from his history,
his surroundings and himself. Wideload
ponders “Saxonian” attitudes, offers
comparative histories, examines myth
and mysticism, and provides lessons
in language and dancing. Based on
the play Fronteras americanas by
Guillermo Verdecchia.
Zena and Tita are due in court for
stealing tampons because they refuse
to pay for the privilege of menstruating.
They live in an abandoned warehouse
on the edge of Toronto and pay for
college by selling phone sex. Both are
struggling to deal with the impending
loss of their abuelas. Reflective and
insightful, Tampon Thieves gently
weaves reflections on family and love
amongst friends, to tell a rich story of
how women and gay men of color are
treated in a racist, homophobic culture.
Luis Garcia delivers a poignant
account of the life of illegal immigrants
in Toronto. Garcia stages their
testimonies as a means of bringing
home to the viewer their anguish, fear,
and loneliness.
Ramiro Puerta
Jorge Lozano
Luis Oswaldo Garcia
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WEDNESDAY· JUNE 01 · 7:00 PM
An eclectic crop of films by
pioneer filmmakers, Crossroads
is a tribute to the first LatinoCanadian artists that paved the
way for the next generation
of filmmakers. Encompassing
films from the 1970s and 1980s,
common themes that link these
films include exile, dislocation,
and the traces of memory lost
relatives, friends, dreams, ideals
and a place to call home. Each of
the films unfold along similar steep
social and work-related learning
curves, albeit in different personal
contexts and with varying degrees
of introspection.
WEDNESDAY· JUNE 01 · 7:00 PM
CROSSROADS (1980s)
Sin ataduras / Unbound
Claudia Morgado
CROSSROADS (1980s)
Unbound is a docudrama in which
sixteen women of different nationalities,
races, and ideologies free themselves
from societal definitions, stereotypes,
and the prison of the bra. In the act of
unbinding, they speak directly to the
camera with humour and insight, about
the significance of their breasts in their
lives and diverse cultures. Presented
as a series of brilliantly colored vibrant
tableaux, which are take-offs on wellknown works by Da Vinci, Caravaggio,
Velázquez and Kahlo, the film breaks
through the constraints of traditional
filmmaking and the censorship of
women’s bodies. Unbound has been
invited to over 100 film festivals and
purchased by the video archives of
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thirty universities.
Awards / Selected Screenings:
Best Foreign Short Film, Créteil International
Women’s Film Festival, 1997; Teddy Award
(Best
Documentary),
Berlin
International
Film Festival, 1996; Isabella Liddell Award for
Best Women’s Issues Film, Ann Arbor Film
Festival, 1996; Jury ’s Award, Northwest Film
and Video Festival, 1995; Certificate of Merit,
Chicago International Film Festival, 1995.
SUSPENDED
MEMORIES
(1990s)
WEDNESDAY· JUNE 01 · 9:00PM
SUSPENDED MEMORIES (1990s)
Wednesday, June 1 ·
9:00PM
Royal Cinema
Co-presented by:
Cuentos de mi niñez
/ Tales From My
Childhood
Francisca Duran
1991 • Canada • 9’ • Fiction •
Experimental documentary
In 1973, General Augusto Pinochet
launched a violent coup in Chile that
overthrew elected president Salvador
Allende.
Thousands
were
killed,
tortured, imprisoned, and exiled as a
result. Duran’s family was among the
many that were exiled in Canada.” In
this experimental, autobiographical
film, a young woman remembers and
recounts difficult childhood memories
of the 1973 coup in Chile when her
family was forced into exile.
Lotería / Lottery
Roberto Ariganello &
Federico Hidalgo
Lotería
is
an
impressionistic
documentary comprised of a series
of interviews with street vendors,
lottery officials, and the children
responsible for drawing the winning
numbers. These children are referred
to as “gritones” and they literally
shout out the numbers, are employed
because their innocence is considered
incorruptible.
Rather than taking a conventional
reportage approach, Lotería presents
Mexico’s lottery as a visual and auditory
phenomenon. The illusionary quality of
the lottery as a part of Mexico’s cultural
history is represented
through the textured layers of the film’s
sound and photography. Shot on both
colour and black and white, Super 8
and 16mm, with optical visual effects as
well as music recorded on the streets
of Mexico City, Lotería eschews the
traditional expository documentary
form, offering instead an imaginative,
observational approach.
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SUSPENDED MEMORIES
Suspended Memories focuses on
a historical and contextual reading
of the similarities and differences
between
South
and
North
American territories. Exploring
figurative borders and linguistic
barriers, the films presented in this
program overcome limitations in
genre and form, including but not
limited to experimental, animation,
documentary, and drama.
SUSPENDED MEMORIES
WEDNESDAY· JUNE 01 · 9:00PM
SUSPENDED MEMORIES (1990s)
City of Dreams
Jorge Manzano
A Hunter Called Memory
Alejandro Ronceria
City of Dreams is the story of Marcel
“Bambi” Commanda, an Ojibway man
from Rama First Nation. Marcel sits
in a prison cell, reciting a passage
from his life. The film touches on his
marginalization and displacement in
the urban environment, the loss of
culture, language and traditions, and
his attempt to regain what he has
lost. A poet, performer, drummer and
emerging film and video maker, Marcel
passed away in 1994 just after filming
was finished.
Sundance
Film
Festival,
USA,
1999;
International Festival of New Latin American
Cinema, Cuba, 1996;
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Figueira da Foz International Film Festival,
Portugal,
1996
Mediawave:
Another
Connection Visual Arts Festival, Hungary,
1996. Awarded Best Documentary, Ottawa
New Frontiers Independent Film Festival,
Ottawa, ON, 1995
The urban backdrop takes a different
meaning in A Hunter Called Memory,
as a mud-caked hunter stalks across
a post-urban wasteland like a refugee
from the Neolithic age, performing a
ritual to recall primal space and time.
Official selection at the Toronto International
Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival,
Clermont – Ferrand and Sheffield.
NOMADICITY:
WHEREVER
YOU GO (EARLY
2000s)
Thursday, June 2 · 9:00PM
Royal Cinema
Co-presented by:
Saudade Memory
Petunia Alvez & Marik
Bourdreau
2001 • Canada • 16’ • Essay
Reliving and reworking childhood
memories of African-Brazilian religious
traditions, the directors return to
northern Brazil to document the
February 2nd celebrations of Yemanja,
goddess of the seas. Yemanja is the
mother of the orishas (gods and
goddesses) in candomblé religion
and protector of those Africans who
crossed the Atlantic in the Middle
Passage. Offerings, dance, music,
trance states and textual meditations
merge together in a celebratory visual
poem.
Unknown
Promised Land
2001 • Canada • 2’50” • Experimental
Julieta Maria
Unknown is a visual exploration of
the self through video. It is a physical
and emotional investigation that uses
the camera as a mirror to attempt to
access and understand the mystery
of being alive. Subtly and desperately
at times, the video touches on issues
like feminine identity, death and the
unconscious. It is filled with visceral
reflections that cannot provide any
answers, but are doomed to follow a
circular path with no resolution.
Marcos Arriaga
Documentary
Mixing the personal and the political,
Promised Land follows the story of
Arriaga’s family in Peru, from the
middle of the last century through to
the present day. The story is told from
a personal point of view in relation
to the political developments taking
place throughout the Latin American
continent. This film weaves together
various viewpoints, forming a unique
perspective on memory, history and
identity.
Official Selection, 2002 Hot Docs Canadian
International Documentary Festival.
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THURSDAY· JUNE 02 · 9:00PM
The films in this program provide
a glimpse into themes such as
exile, migration and, identity, and
class structures with the shift in
cultural variables, moral values
and systems of power around
the borders of the Americas. The
approach to filmmaking during
this period is varied from flyon-the-wall vérité and found
footage manipulations to more
obvious subjectivity on display in
experimental hybrids.
MOMADICITY: WHEREVER YOU GO
NOMADICITY: WHEREVER YOU GO (EARLY 2000s)
Memory
Cecilia Araneda
Entre piernas /
Between Legs
Gricel Severino
Drama
2005 • Canada • 7’ • Music Video
A woman sleeps in her bed of memories,
dreaming of precious childhood
moments. In her subconscious mind,
she travels back to the present again,
where these memories transform
themselves into a faded photography
– isolated and alone, and something
that blows with the wind. Memory is
processed and painted by hand.
Entre piernas is a playful music video.
Through the music the narrative
unfolds the seduction between Alba,
a transgender who identifies herself
as a lesbian, and Papi who is a drag
king. The video describes the notion of
gender and plays with sex roles, as well
as sending up both queer Latin culture
and sexuality. Who is the he, who is the
she? Does it really matter?
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Cycle
Lina Rodriguez
An examination of infidelity as a
doorway, attractive and dangerous at
the same time.
Through Your Eyes
Guillermina Buzio & Eva
Urrutia
Through Your Eyes tells the story
of Maria; a young Latin-American
woman, whose parents were
detained and disappeared by the
military dictatorship when she and
her siblings were children. Risking it
all to uncover the mystery that was
destined to remain buried. Guiding us
through her fragmented memories,
Maria will recount her history. It is a
history that struggles to stay alive in
a society which attempts to silence
it. This film is an attempt to educate
people throughout the world about
the human rights violations that haunt
Latin America, especially from the
point of view of the children who
experience that repression themselves.
Juana Awad
Documentary
“My father died four years ago. Over a
period of 16 years, he wrote me several
letters that he never gave me and that
I got when I went back to Colombia to
bury him. I’ve kept the letters but have
not been able to read any of them.
So I asked Lorena to read them to me
while I videotape her.”
I’ve Got a Headache
Ulysses Castellanos
“A video of my mother immersed in a
drug-induced trance, while hospitalized
as a result of a stroke, just before she
died.”
Seam-stress
Julia Iriarte
Bordes/Borders
Alexandra Gélis
2009 • Canada • 3’ • Art Video
The Seam-stress is a dark comedy
about a girl called Mirna who is sexually
repressed and psychologically abused
by her sick mother and her struggle to
liberate herself. The movie expresses
how fear and negativity stand in the
way of this character struggling with
her own limitations to find happiness.
“A masterpiece of multi-screen bodily
decomposition, Bordes offers a ninescreen
collective
portrait,
made
entirely out of photographs. Inviting
six of her queer feminist housemates
who identified as women for a suite of
portrait sessions, the artist pictures the
borders of skin, and by recombining
them into a grid creates an always
shifting composite body that floats
between genders. The soundtrack is
created out of the spaces between
words, the beginnings of sentences,
the pauses and hesitations, where the
unconscious lives.” – Mike Hoolboom
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Regresando / Time
Remapping
al
v
ReOriented in São Paulo
Sojin Chun
2010 • Brazil • 5’ • Experimental
Re-Oriented in São Paulo takes a lighthearted look at the complexities of
immigration and cultural integration.
To be ReOriented in São Paulo, for
the Korean community portrayed
in this video, signifies re-adaptation
and cultural transformation. The
narrative is told whimsically, through
the perspective of a Korean-style hot
dog walking through Bom Retiro, a
Korean neighbourhood. In its journey,
the hot dog encounters, and interacts
with locals, revealing the diversity of
characters that live and work together
in this area.
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aluCine 2016 Curatorial Statement - Official Selection
Following last year’s luscious Quinceañera celebration, aluCine is back with another edition of our renowned annual festival in which
we celebrate the most exciting ideas and images put on film from across the hemisphere. Let’s put it this way, if our Quinceañera
was a blast, then our Sweet Sixteen will be unforgettable.
We, as Latin Americans, are defined by our intimate connection with nature. The landscapes of our countries have profoundly
shaped our identities. Most of us have enjoyed swimming on a deserted beach, running downhill in the snow, or hiking through
the dense jungle. For us our environment is both a blessing and a curse. It defines who we are, and who we will be. Gold, tobacco,
silver, pearls, furs, oil, sugar cane, cotton, coca plant, cacao beans; these have made people rich,the have made people poor. They
defined our lifestyle and our geography. We are nature.
This year we invite our audiences to reflect on the current state of the environment. Globally, there is an ongoing debate with
respect to what to do to avoid future damage – or more simply, how to fix the damage we’ve already caused – to la Madre Tierra
(Mother Earth). At aluCine, we feel it is important to be part of the conversation. With aluCine 2016, we are putting a magnifying
glass on the current state of our relationship to nature and how our lands and peoples are being impacted by changes in our
planet. As such, we will have a program dedicated to presenting films that intend to create awareness of the dangers of our abusive
relationship with nature.
In this edition of aluCine we also want to continue celebrating our cultural wealth. For hundreds of years this hemisphere – both
North and South – has welcomed various waves of immigrants that have blended, resulting in a diverse and complex culture.
Following our artistic vision of inclusion, we chose to offer programs that are not constrained by traditional labeling, and to present
works that explore, question and challenge fundamental issues around immigration, gender, sexual orientation, and politics.
Get ready to enjoy and celebrate our cultures! And as always, we will dance at some point, because, that is also who we are.
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FRIDAY· JUNE 03 · 7:30PM
LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA
LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA
Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West · General $15
La tierra y la sombra / Land and Shade
César Augusto Acevedo
2015 · Colombia · 97’ · Drama
Canadian Premiere
Astonishingly beautiful and overwhelmingly moving, César Augusto Acevedo’s
masterful debut concerns a rural family struggling with illness, labor exploitation
and longstanding emotional wounds. The actors give arresting performances,
while the use of locations—from the colossal banyan tree to the apocalyptic burning fields—infuse La tierra y la sombra / Land and Shade with an air of myth.
Ten years in the making, this contemplative, meticulous and overwhelmingly
moving debut by director Cesar Augusto Acevedo has won him praises around
the world. La tierra y la sombra was awarded with the prestigious Camera d’Or at
last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and since, it has been collecting accolades in San
Sebastian, Jerusalem, Munich and Sao Paulo film festivals, just to mention a few.
Co-presented by:
the leap manifesto
A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
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FRIDAY · JUNE 03 · 18:30
Vida: vivir y morir
en Latinoamérica.
Life: To Live & Die
in Latin America.
Saturday, June 4 · 5:00PM
Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of
Ontario
We might argue that the circle
of life is the same for all humans,
but that isn’t true. Depending on
where you are born, your life will
take very different routes and
shapes. If you were born, raised,
and grew up in Latin America your
experience will mirror, whether we
like it or not, our cultural mélange.
In a region marked by social
differences, religion, machismo,
and constant changes. The circle
of life can be very bumpy. Join us
to discover a collage of stories that
tell us what it is like to live - and
die - in beautiful Latinoamérica.
Co-presented by:
Neverson
Xavier
2016 · Venezuela · 11’30” · Drama
2015 · Brasil · 14’ · Drama
To be born in the outskirts of society
in the poor slums of Venezuela, or
any other country in Latin America,
is definitely a risk both for mother
and child. In a society that doesn’t
understand the concept of family or
motherhood the same way it would be
understood by the middle classes in
other parts of the world, impoverished
people in the Americas suffer a lifelong cycle of abandonment, abuse, and
anxiety. Director Raul Simao shows us
this reality in a very concise manner
through the story of an older woman
facing yet another birth in her already
broken family.
Nicolas notices that his eleven year
old son Xavier spends his time not
only playing drums, but also paying
attention to a certain type of boys. This
tender short by director Ricky Maestro
is full of kindness, love, and a little bit
of music.
Raul Simao
Ricky Mastro
El sabor que nos queda /
The Aftertaste
Monica Bravo
2015 · Colombia · 14’20” · Drama
Being a teenager is tough; insecurities
join angst, anxiety and the awakening
of adult sexual desire. At this point in
life we seem to be understood only by
our peers. In this film, director Monica
Bravo follows a pack of boys and
girls while they enjoy an after school
getaway through the woods while they
flirt with alcohol, danger, drugs, and
each other.
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SATURDAY · JUNE 04 · 5:00PM
LIFE: TO LIVE OR DIE IN LATIN AMERICA
Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West · General $10 · Students/Seniors: $8
LIFE: TO LIVE & DIE IN LATIN AMERICA
SATURDAY· JUNE 04 · 5 :00PM
Tremulo / Tremulous
Irene
2015 · México · 20’ · Drama
2015 · Costa Rica · 27’42”· Drama
The first adult love usually hits you like
a gunshot to the heart. It can happen
anywhere at anytime. Director Roberto
Fiesco sets his film in a busy Mexican
city where two young men meet
randomly in a barbershop where they
end up spending a night of laughing,
conversing, and dancing together. They
don’t know it yet, but their paths were
meant to cross.
Once adulthood sets in, responsibilities
start to pile up, and it doesn’t help if
you are a single mother with a nosy
mother and an empty bank account.
With wit, honesty and certain charm,
director Alexandra Latishev tackles the
period of life in which we want to live
our lives on our own terms, just to be
reminded that life has plans of its own.
Irene still wants to fall in love, to go out,
and to live new adventures, but a son
and bills to pay keep keeping her away
from her dreams.
Roberto Fiesco
Alexandra Latishev
Vida eterna / Eternal
Life
Ivan Lowenberg
2015 · México · 7’ · Dark Comedy
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There is only one thing certain in life:
we are all going to die. In this clever
piece of dark comedy, director Ivan
Lowenberg introduces us to a fictional
company that will take care of you, and
your grave, long after you are gone.
Join a short tour through a cemetery
where a very resourceful saleslady will
show you the services offered by this
unique organization.
The State of the
Environment
Saturday, June 4 · 7:00PM
Ontario
Co-presented by:
the leap manifesto
A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
Santa Cruz del Islote
Riding Bull Cart
2015 · Colombia · 19’ · Documentary
2015 · Trinidad & Tobago· 10’26” ·
Canadian Premiere
Documentary
Luke Lorentzen
Director Luke Lorentzen brings us
to the dream-like islet of Santa Cruz.
Located off the coast of the Caribbean
in Colombia, this tiny piece of land
harbours a relatively large population
making it the most densely populated
island on the planet. We are invited
to discover a little bit of their lifestyle
through the eyes its people just to
discover that their carefree lives are
on the brink of collapse due to the
disappearance of fish shoal of which
the inhabitants of the island depend on
for feeding and trade. Beautifully shot,
this film could be read as a cautionary
Rhonda Chan Soo
tale of what it is to come if we don’t
take the environmental problems
seriously.
Canadian Premiere
As a homage to lost traditions, director
Rhonda Chan Soo brings us a timecapsule-moment that could have
been taken from the colonial past of
the Caribbean. The symbiotic and
pure relationship between human and
beast working together may seem like
a ludicrous thought for some people
nowadays, but it was the basis of
society until only a couple of centuries
ago. Come along for the short ride that
takes this duo through the busy streets
of the city in reminiscent of lost times
when man and beast were one.
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SATURDAY· JUNE 04 · 7:00PM
Environment is defined as the
conditions and circumstances
that surround us. Environment is
everything that exists, everything
we have known and everything we
will come to know. Our air, land, and
water are under constant assault
from the ever-growing ravages of
man-made pollution generated
chiefly by industrialized societies.
Radical action is required to insure
our basic survival as a species.
With this selection of films we
reflect on the intimate relationship
between
humans
and
their
surroundings, challenging the way
we think about the natural world.
THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Ciclo 7X1 / Cycle 7X1
Gil Baroni
In their daily routine on the quest
for garbage Luana and her children
ruminate about life and soccer, and at
the same time are silent and invisible
witnesses of a society that has long
forgotten about them. Other people’s
waste becomes these people’s
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El enemigo / The
Enemy
2014 · Argentina ·15’ · Documentary
Canadian Premiere
2015 · Cuba · 26’08” · Documentary
Canadian Premiere
Fourteen years ago, the government
of Buenos Aires offered land to poor
people right by one of the country’s
largest waste landfills with the promise
of the closure of the dumps. Time has
passed and trash keeps coming and
with it diseases and the vanishing
dream of a better life. Director Sofia
Quiros documents the life of this small
community that could be used as a
metaphor of the world problem of our
over-production of waste and how
tricked and forgotten people deal with
it with only three tools, hard work, hope
and a smile.
In the Tropics mosquitoes are being
feared as a silent and ever-present
threat. Director Aldemar Matias’
The Enemy explores the efforts of
Cuba’s government to educate the
population about the dangers of this
small insect while it tries to eradicate
them from people’s houses. Being
Cuba, this effort is highly influenced by
revolutionary values and merits based
on performance. We follow our unlikely
heroine while navigating a fight against
the ever dangerous mosquito.
Sofia Quiros
2015 • Brazil • 30’ • Documentary
Canadian Premiere
The backdrop is the recently celebrated
World Cup in Brazil - one of the most
passionate countries in the world whe
it comes to their national sport, soccer.
Parties and protests clash in the city. It
is in this context that director Gil Baroni
documents the life of a young single
woman who lives in the favelas with her
six children and makes a living out of
collecting and pushing around the city
cardboard boxes to be recycled.
Al otro lado / The
Other Side
wealth. Who is doing the right thing?
The ones cheering every time there is
a goal, the ones protesting about the
waste of money hosting these large
events, or the poor people that wake
up every morning to work a little bit for
the planet and for their families?
Aldemar Matias
Impronta / Mark
Gil Baroni
2015 • Brazil • 30’ • Documentary
Canadian Premiere
An experimental animated short by
director Eduardo Brenes that talks
about the invisible damage that we are
causing to the world’s oceans and the
likely repurcussions humanity will face.
Join the conversation!
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Mathew Ramirez Warren
2015 · United States · 97’ · Dodumentary
We Like It Like That is a feature-length documentary film about Latin boogaloo, a
colorful expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of New York City.
Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon and Pete Rodriguez,
We Like It Like That explores this lesser-known, but pivotal moment in Latin music
history through original interviews, music recordings, live performances, dancing
and rare archival footage and images.
Borrowing the title of the famous song by Pete Rodriguez, director Mathew
Ramirez presents us with the unlikely story of the birth, rise, and apparent death of
a sound that redefined a generation hungry for change, a product of New York’s
melting pot, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx and Brooklyn.
Influenced by the great Cuban composers and musicians that achieved worldwide
fame in the 40s and 50s and by the explosion of African-American music
sensations fostered by the record label Mowtown, a whole generation of LatinAmerican kids went psychedelic and created what would be the base of Salsa
music, the Boogaloo. From its origins to its recent resurgence in popularity, We
Like It Like That tells the story of a sound that redefined a generation and was too
funky to keep down.
Although it only flourished for a few years during the late ‘60s, Latin boogaloo
was a fun and funky transitional sound connecting mambo and cha cha cha to
salsa. Young Nuyoricans gobbled up boogaloo’s groovy blend of Afro-Cuban
rhythms, R&B, pop, and soul. Songs like Ricardo Ray’s coaxing “Lookie, Lookie”
and Joe Bataan’s locomotive “Subway Joe” gave Latin dancers a chic new sound
all their own. The soundtrack to Mathew Ramirez Warren’s documentary easily, and
thrillingly, justifies both boogaloo’s brief heyday and its 21st-century resurgence.
Full Cast: Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon, Pete Rodriguez, Ricardo Ray, Joey Pastrana,
Harvey Averne, Larry Harlow, Aurora Flores, Felipe Luciano, Jimmy Sabater, Tito
Ramos, Bobby Marin, Benny Bonilla, Orlando Marin, Bobby Sanabria, Eliot Rivera,
Nicky Marrero, Sandra Maria Esteves, Henry “Pucho” Brown, The Abakua Afro-Latin
Dance Company, Oliver Wang, Bobbito Garcia, DJ Turmix, Alex Masucci and Daisy
Rivera.
Recently the film was nominated for a Cinema Tropical Award in the Best U.S.
Latino Film category.
This documentary not only will fill the gap in your Tropical music history lesson; it
will also make you want to dance until the sun comes up! Let’s Boogaloo!
Co-presented by:
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WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT
WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT
Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West · Film $15
SHORTS FOR SHORTIES
Shorts for Shorties
SUNDAY · JUNE 05 · 2:00PM
For
some
people,
dreams
mean the opposite of reality
and responsibility; they are a
distraction. At aluCine, we believe
that dreams are the opposite
of that. They give us direction,
meaning,
challenges,
happy
moments, something to hold on
to. Dreams are born and fed in
our childhood. They start with
imagination and create a world
of infinite possibilities when we
barely know how to count or to
read, and they stay with us forever.
SHORTS FOR SHORTIES
Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West · Adults $10 · Children: $8 · Siblings: $6
Sunday, June 5 · 2:00PM
Ontario
Join us for a journey into the
dreams of a series of artists that
use their imagination to create
pieces for children and childrenat-heart using a variety of
animation techniques.
Co-presented by:
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Mateo y el cine / Mateo
and Cinema
Luis Felipe Hernández
Alanis
Doña Ubenza / Mrs.
Ubenza
La máquina / The
Machine
2015 · Argentina · 3’29” · Animation
2015 • México • 4’02” • Animation
Argentinian director Juan Manuel Costa
brings to life the folkloric “copla” Doña
Ubenza sung by folk artist Mariana
Carrizo. The song tells the story of a
day in the life of the title character and
her sheep while they sing, walk, and
dance across the all-mighty Andes, all
rendered in gorgeous stop-motion.
Seasoned Mexican director Rene David
Reyes brings his expertise to this
fun short about a son that opens his
inventor father about the consecuenses
of abusing our planet’s resources.
La máquina is a reminder that we’re
not islands; everything we do affects
everything and everyone else.
Juan Manuel Costa
David Reyes
2015 · México · 3’28” · Animation
Using very simple forms director Luis
Felipe Hernandez tells the story of how
Mateo’s family helped him transform his
beautiful drawing into moving images.
Masks Battles
2014 • Brazil • 2’35” • Animation
This magical short by director Iuri
Araújo takes us back in time and to the
present again to illustrate the origins
of the masks festival celebrated in
the Brazilian city of Pirenópolis. This
celebration recalls the confrontations
between Christians and Muslims in the
Middle Ages.
.
El trompetista / The
Trumpet Player
Aguacero / Downpour
En-sueño / Reverie
2015 · Ecuador/Canada · 4’40” ·
Paula Bartning & Gabriel
Gonzalez Gedoviu
2014 · México · 10’ · Animation
Animation
2015 • México • 7’49” • Animation
Music and animation are the tools that
Mexican director Raúl Robin Morales
uses to tell the story of a sweet officer
in the military that refuses to let the
system stop him from playing his own
tunes.
An old couple fights the never-ending
rain that threats to destroy their house.
Director Bernarda Cornejo uses waterinspired stop-motion to share her
thoughts about miscommunication
and loneliness.
Directors Paula Bartning and Gabriel
Gonzalez
use
water
color-style
animation to tell the story of a writer
that confronts a creative block and is
forced to dive into his imagination to
find the lost inspiration he needs to
keep going.
Raúl Robin Morales Reyes
Bernarda Cornejo Pinto
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SUNDAY· JUNE 05 · 2:00PM
Iuri Araujo
SHORTS FOR SHORTIES
SHORTS FOR SHORTIES
SHORTS FOR SHORTIES
SHORTS FOR SHORTIES
Zimbo
Rita Basulto
2015 · México · 10’30” · Animation
Gorgeous CGI is the resource that
Mexican director Rita Basulto uses
to convey the tale of a puppet that
dreams with the freedom to see the
world.
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Viagem na chuva /
Journey in the Rain
Historia de un oso /
Bear Story
2015 · Brasil· 12’55” · Animation
2014 • Chile • 10’ • Animation
When the arrival of a circus coincides
with the rainy season in a small town
in Brazil a father and his son are swept
away by magic and water and start a
beautiful adventure in this short by
Brazilian artist Wesley Rodrigues.
In this absolutely magnificent feat of 3D
animation, blending multiple textures
and strongly evoking a StopMotion
aesthetic. It is inspired by director
Gabriel Osorio Vargas’s grandfather,
Leopoldo Osorio, who after the Chilean
coup d’état was imprisoned for two
years, and then forced to live in exile
for the duration of the dictatorship.
A beautifully told story within a story
about a bear who is captured by goons
working for the circus and loses his
family. Though a children’s story, the
film works on many levels and evokes
deeper political metaphors.
Wesley Rodrigues
Gabriel Osorio Vargas
2016 Oscar Winner for Best Short Film
(Animated) “Best Animation” Palm Springs
Shortfest, 2015 *Academy Award Qualifying
“Grand Jury Prize” Nashville Film Festival,
2015
*Academy
Award
Qualifying
“Best
Animated Short” RiverRun Film Festival 2015
*Academy Award Qualifying “Best Animated
Short” CIFF, Cleveland Ohio, 2015 *Academy
Award Qualifying “Best Animation” DCIFF,
Washington DC, 2015 “Best International
Film”, Little Big Shots, Australia, 2015 “Best
Animation”
AluCine
Latin
Film
Festival,
Canada 2015 “Junior Audience Award” HAFF,
Holland, 2015 “Audience Award” Klik! Festival,
Amsterdam, November “Grand Prize” Kuandu
International Festival.
Sur: El llamado de
la antártica
South: Antarctic
Calling
SOUTH: ANTARCTIC CALLING
The Spanish-speaking southern
part of our hemisphere stands out
all by its own. With a rich and varied
geography, this part of the world is
defined by having a diverse climate,
the mighty Andes, the Amazonian
jungle, and by unique peoples and
cultures.
People from Chile and Argentina
have thrived as autors, musicians
and of course as filmmakers even
under adverse circumstances. This
year, we at aluCine are proud to
honor those two countries with a
small sample of films that will give
us a sense of the peoples who truly
inhabit el sur.
Co-presented by
Actriz de Reparto /
Supporting Actress
Historia de un oso /
Bear Story
2015 · Argentina/Chile · 12’37” ·
2014 • Chile • 10’ • Animation
Roberto Doveris
Gabriel Osorio Vargas
Drama
A dangerous recipe, a handful of
actresses, some loud music, alcohol,
and a OUIJA session. Director Roberto
Doveris part-fantasy, part-comedy,
part-social commentary film excels on
cinematographic resources to create
a rare atmosphere in which a talented
cast shows us what happens in a wild
night in small apartment somewhere in
Argentina.
Every day, a melancholy old bear
takes a mechanical diorama that he
has created out to his street corner.
For a coin, passersby can look into the
peephole of his invention, which tells
the story of a circus bear who longs to
escape and return to the family from
which he was taken.
Historia de un oso / Bear Story It is
an absolutely magnificent feat of 3D
animation, blending multiple textures
and strongly evoking a StopMotion
aesthetic. Inspired by director Gabriel
Osorio Vargas’s grandfather, Leopoldo
Osorio, who after the Chilean coup
d’état was imprisoned for two
years was then forced to live in exile
for the duration of the dictatorship.
A beautifully told story within a story
about a bear who is captured by
goons working for the circus and loses
his family. Though a children’s story,
the film works on many levels and
evokes deeper political metaphors.
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Ontario
El Cumpleaños de
Darcy / Darcy’s
Birthday
Diego Frangi
2013 · Argentina · 6’45” ·
Documentary
Darcy is looking forward to celebrate
his birthday, and there will be a
surprise… for us! This candid short
documentary by director Diego Frangi
takes us somewhere in rural Argentina,
where a small town celebrates one of
its most beloved inhabitants, regardless
of what he likes.
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La once / Tea Time
Maite Alberdi
2014 · Chile · 70’ · Documentary
This Goya-nominated film by director
Maite Alberdi introduces us to the
beautiful world of a group of high school
girlfriends “who” have maintained their
ties for over sixty years. Now old and
with long lives to reminiscence about,
these ladies still meet once a month for
afternoon tea. With no frills - besides
the ones decorating the pastries,
cupcakes, and cakes - we witness
their candid and honest conversations
where they speak about their youth,
about their upbringing, their families,
their struggles, their ailments, and
their happy moments while keeping a
cheerful perspective on life. With the
kind of sisterly love that develops
after so many years of friendship,
the group could represent a sample
of a whole generation of middle-class
Chilean women that have been through
changes in society, life, and their
country, but who have always thrived.
You will never forget the ladies from La
once!
Invisible Predators
INVISIBLE PREDATORS
INVISIBLE PREDATORS
Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West · Film $15
Ontario
Tierra virgen / Virgin
Land
Giovanni Aloi
2014 · Peru · 10’ · Drama
Los reyes del pueblo
que no existe / Kings of
Nowehere
Betzabé García
2015 · México · 4’40” · Documentary
A small family of farmers is trying
to break its ties with the local drug
production lords, but bad habits
die hard, sometimes with fatal
consequences. This short film shows
director Gionvanni Aloi’s skills for
suspense, pace, and social commentary.
Three families live in a village partially
submerged by water in Northwestern
Mexico: Pani and Paula do not want to
close their tortilleria and spend their
spare time rescuing the town from
ruins; Miro and his parents dream of
leaving but can’t; Yoya and Jaimito live
in fear but have everything they need.
Premio del Público en SXSW,
Premio de Jurado at Full Frame Documentary
Festival,
Best Internacional Documentary at Zurich
Film Festival,
Best
Mexican
Documentary
at
Festival
Internacional de Cine de Morelia, Internacional
Jury Awards at This Human World Festival,
Co-presented by:
Los reyes del pueblo que no existe is
an award-winning documentary that
has been collecting accolades around
the world!
Nominated to Best Opera Prima for Cinema
Eye Honors 2016.
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SUNDAY· JUNE 05 · 6:30PM
It is a fact that some parts of
Latinoamérica have been plagued
by the horrors of illegal drug
production and trafficking. Under
the siege of organized crime,
average citizens must face the
dangers of this reality while trying
to survive and to live normal lives,
constantly afraid that this day, or
that day, could be their last. Sadly,
narcotraficantes remain very real
and dangerous invisible predators.
JUNE 1-5
OFF-SCREEN
Monarch Tavern
12 Clinton St.
CineCycle
129 Spadina Ave.
OPENING RECEPTION & DISCUSSION PANEL
“To be Latino is thus somewhat like directing a
loquacious orchestra without a score, to undergo
a seemingly endless negotiation of identity and
difference from both inside and outside a multifaceted
prism, and to be involved in a constant search for an
inter- and intra-community common ground.” - Elena
Feder
The issues and ideas discussed at the panel will
cover all aspects of the diasporic experience of the
Americas; Echoing the film screenings in which Latin
filmmakers works exhibit different foci and degrees
of concern with border-crossing issues and postnational diasporic identity formations.
In reflecting on the history of Latin Canadian
filmmaking, the panel aims to conceptualize what
evolutionary framework is needed to support
independent Latino-Canadian filmmakers in the
future. The on-going need for spaces for culturally
specific media arts exhibition and the relevance of
such spaces to future generations of independent
Latino-Canadian filmmakers is being questioned, and
it is this questioning that serves as the starting point
for the panelists’ discussion.
Opening Night Reception
June 1 - 10:00pm
Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton St, Toronto, ON M6J
2N8
The reception kicks off with a VIP cocktail at the
friendly Monarch Tavern and the celebration continues
with an array of delicious Latinamerican cuisine,
mingle and the celebration of the best of the Latin
Canadian cinema!
Discussion Panel
20 Years in the Making: Independent Latin
Canadian Cinema
June 2 - 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton St, Toronto, ON M6J
2N8
Panelists include notable Latino-Canadian media
artists and programmers such as Ricardo Acosta,
Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Jorge Lozano, Alejandro Ronceria
and Sinara Rozo.
Co-presented by:
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PANELISTS
Ricardo Acosta
Eva-Lynn Jagoe
Ricardo Acosta immigrated to Canada from
his native Cuba in 1993. Before coming to
Toronto, he studied and worked with the world
renowned Cuban Film Institute in Havana. For
the past twelve years Ricardo has edited both
documentary and dramatic films, which have
been shown around the world.
Eva-Lynn Jagoe is an Associate Professor
of Latin American Cinema and Culture and
Comparative Literature at University of
Toronto.
His outstanding work has contributed to
the making of several award-winning films
including: Shooting Indians, A Journey
With Jeffrey Thomas directed by Ali Kazimi
(Genie Award nomination for Best Short
Documentary); Unbound directed by Claudia Morgado (Berlin Film
Festival Award for Best Short Film); Spirits of Havana produced by
the NFB (Genie Award nomination for Best Documentary); The Take
directed by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (Gemini nomination for The
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
& for Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series); and
Runaway Groom directed by Ali Kazimi (Gemini Donald Brittain Award
for Best Social/Political Documentary Program).
Ricardo was chosen to be a fellow by the Sundance Institute in 2006 for
the Documentary Film Editing and Story Laboratory. Herman’s House,
from Toronto’s Storyline Entertainment, edited by Ricardo Acosta won
Documentary Emmy in the outstanding arts and culture programming
category.
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She teaches experimental critical writing,
feminism, and Argentine and Mexican culture.
Her book, The End of the World as They
Knew It: Writing Experiences of the Argentine
South, examines representations of the South
in Argentine and English texts from the
nineteenth century to the present, arguing that
the narration of this space is formative in the
shaping of a collective memory and history of Argentina.
She is currently writing a book entitled Take Her, She’s Yours.” a series of
lyric essays on gender and sexuality. She has published in journals such
as Reviews in Cultural Theory, Cinemascope, Journal of Latin American
Cultural Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos and Revista
Hispánica Moderna.
PANELISTS
Jorge Lozano
Jorge Lozano has been working as a film
and video artist for the last 20 years and
has achieved national and international
recognition, His work has been exhibited at
the Toronto Film Festival, at the Sundance Film
Festival, and The Images Festival amongst
others. He has expanded his practice to
the production of improvised sound work,
the organization of cultural events and the
facilitation of self-representations video
workshops for marginalized Latin and nonLatin youth in Canada since 1991 Venezuela
2005 and Colombia 2005-2009.
Alejandro Ronceria
Alejandro Ronceria is an internationally
acclaimed and award-winning director,
choreographer, producer based in Canada
with an extensive and illustrious career in
multiple artistic disciplines. He has created
and produced large-scale productions both
nationally and internationally. Most recently,
he was a Director/Choreographer for
Almalgama, a new work commissioned by the
City of Toronto for TORONTO 2015 Pan Am
Games. As well, he also served as Director /
Co-Producer of the Opening Night Showcase
for the Aboriginal Pavilion held during the
TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games.
As well, Alejandro choreographed a segment of the Welcome from the
Aboriginal Peoples of Canada for the opening ceremony of the 2010
Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Alejandro is the co-founder/founding
artistic director (1996-2001) of the first Aboriginal Dance Program in
North America at The Banff Center for the Arts.
Alejandro was one of the pioneers of dancefilm as a unique medium in
Canada. In 1996, his dancefilm A Hunter Called Memory was an official
selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film
Festival, Clermont – Ferrand and Sheffield. In 2004, he was nominated
for a Dora Mayor Award for Best Choreography forThe Art Show. In 2010,
Alejandro was the first recipient to graduate with a Masters Degree in
Fine Arts from York University in Dance Dramaturgy and the first to hold
this degree from a Canadian university. He has since been the recipient
of numerous Canada Council for the Arts awards and has served on
juries for dance.
Sinara Rozo Perdomo
Sinara is a Toronto based arts administrator,
curator, a proud mother and an educator.
She is co-founder of annual aluCine Latin
Film+Media Arts Festival. aluCine has been
running for 15 years and is now entering its
16th festival year. Since it’s inception in 1997,
aluCine has grown from a much needed 3-day
film/video event that showcased works by
Latin American artists, into an ambitious 10day interdisciplinary media arts festival that
encompasses short and feature films of the
experimental, documentary and fiction genres
along with media arts exhibitions, performance
and music.
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PANELISTS
Sinara has been working in artist-run environments for over 18 years and
have many years experience in management capacities: as founder of
the first Latin-American film festival of Canada (Crossing Borders), the
Latin American Artists Network (LAAN), as well as over 10 years Board
experience on artist run centres. She has worked through strategic
planning processes with arts organizations including the Independent
Media Arts Alliance (IMAA), The Media Arts Network of Ontario/Réseau
des arts mediatiques de l’Ontario (MANO/RAMO), Latin-American Arts
Centre (LAAC).
In recent years, Sinara has deepened her investment in media arts
administration by taking part in several advisory and jury committees
for the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her
commitment and unbridled enthusiasm for strengthening the community
and the media arts sector is evidenced in her recent participation as a
board member for the Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO-RAMO),
for the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) and as advisory board
for The Latin American Arts Centre Collective (LAACC).
Her curatorial work has been featured at several festivals in Mexico,
Hungary, Colombia, Brazil, Germany US and Canada.
@imagineNATIVE
Facebook.com/imagineNATIVE
instagram.com/imaginenative
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Closing Night Party - Awards Ceremony + Performances
June 5, 2016 - 9:00pm
CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON M5A 1J7
After five days of excimentent, the 2016 edition of aluCine closes in a high note. One of the coolest venues in Toronto, CineCycle, is the space
in which winners, guests, artists and filmamkers gather to announce and celebrate the winners of our awards, aluCine Best Film, aluCine Best
Documentary Film, and Best Animated Film, aluCine Audience Award, and aluCine Best Children’s Choice Award.
aluCine’s festival awards exist to reward the talent, creativity and unique filmmaking capabilities of local and foreign artists and their ability to move
audiences with their innovative and inspiring work. We celebrate each of their distinct styles and the unique lens through which they view the world.
The ceremony is followed by a performance by the Latino-Canadian collective Green Bunker headed by aluCine co-founder Jorge Lozano,
accompanied by Alexandra Gélis, Alvaro Girón and Edgardo Moreno.
Green Bunker’s performance is followed by erasure and dissensus, a sound-visual experiment-acción by Jorge Lozano and Omar Rivero,
accompanied by Ulysses Castellanos, Antonella Cavallaro and Julieta Maria.
With over twenty years of career, Lozano is a well-known film and video artist whose work has been shown at Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto
International Film Festival, and Images Festival. His efforts extend to the organization of cultural events, and since 1991, the facilitation of video
workshops for marginalized Latino and non-Latino youth in Canada, Venezuela, and Colombia. Jorge’s interest in the production of improvised
sound work brought him together with Omar Rivero aka Driftone, and together they have developed Green Bunker, an initiative based on the
experimental exploration of prerecorded sounds - computer made improv-noise mixed with traditional Latin mixed sounds.
Driftone also brings his individual performance erasure and dissensus, an interactive audiovisual instalation based on themes of cultural erasure,
systemic oppression, race and identity in the african/indigenous diaspora. Rivero work has been featured at Massive Party at the AGO and at the
Nature Nocturne night of art at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Following the performances, DJ Noloves will open up the dance floor to celebrate another year of great filmmaking and arts at aluCine Latin
Film+Media Arts Festival. DJ Noloves has prepared a bold and eclectic set for the Closing Night Party of aluCine 2016. Borrowing from his deepest
influences (he was raised in Colombia in the 80s and spent the last decade spinning between Toronto and Panamá), which range from his salsa
dura and boogaloo foundations to uncompromising and forward thinking electronica, his sound will appeal to discerning ears ready for a soulful
and sweaty night on the floor.
Co-presented by:
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PERFORMERS
Jorge Lozano
Jorge Lozano has been working as a film and video artist for the last 20 years and
has achieved national and international recognition. His work has been exhibited at
the Toronto Film Festival, at the Sundance Film Festival, and The Images Festival
amongst others. He has expanded his practice to the production of improvised
sound work, the organization of cultural events and the facilitation of selfrepresentations video workshops for marginalized Latin and non-Latin youth in
Canada since 1991 Venezuela 2005 and Colombia 2005-2009.
Jorge Lozano
Jorge Lozano has been working as a film and video artist for the last 20 years and
has achieved national and international recognition. His work has been exhibited at
the Toronto Film Festival, at the Sundance Film Festival, and The Images Festival
amongst others. He has expanded his practice to the production of improvised
sound work, the organization of cultural events and the facilitation of selfrepresentations video workshops for marginalized Latin and non-Latin youth in
Canada since 1991 Venezuela 2005 and Colombia 2005-2009.
Alexandra Gélis
Alexandra Gélis is a Colombian-Venezuelan, media artist based in Toronto with
a background in visual arts. She is a PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at
York University, she also holds an MFA degree from the same university, Toronto,
Canada. Her work predominantly involves photography, video, electronic and digital
processes. Gelis’ work addresses the use of image in relation to displacement,
landscape and politics beyond borders or culturally specific subjects. In her latest
works she has expanded her practice using electronics and programming for
interactivity.
Omar Rivero
Omar Rivero, also known as Driftnote, is a musician and multimedia artist whose
work is centered around improvisation, interactivity, and audio visual installations.
He is interested in themes of cultural erasure, systemic oppression, race and identity
in the African/Indigenous diaspora. Some of his interactive sound installations that
have been featured at Massive Party, an AGO yearly event; and Nature Nocturne,
night of art at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Edgardo Moreno
Toronto-based composer Edgardo Moreno was born in Santiago, Chile. He
specializes in film scores and contemporary dance and theatre. He is also an
educator and has worked as an Artist Leader for the Ontario Arts Education
Institute.
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Ulysses Castellanos
Ulysses Castellanos is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living
and working in Toronto. His work encompasses new media, film and video, music,
performance, painting, photography and sculpture-installation.
PERFORMERS
Antonella Cavallaro
Canadian soprano Antonella Cavallaro began her musical career at the age of
eight. Since then she has delighted audiences with her exceptional talent and
scintillating stage presence. She has performed under the direction of such noted
conductors as Peter Oundjian and Kerry Stratton, and in the Royal Alexandra
Theatre, Roy Thomson Hall, and other important venues. She has also worked
alongside such leading musical forces as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Julieta Maria
Julieta Maria is a Toronto based new media artist with an MFA from York
University. She works with a variety of media, including video, interactive video
installations and web. She has participated in several international screenings and
exhibitions, including Scope Basel in Switzerland in 2010, the Hemispheric Institute
of Performance and Politics in Colombia in 2009, and the Interactiva Biennale in
Mexico 2009, among others.
Alvaro Girón aka DJ Noloves
Although he’s been spinning records
in many different shapes and formats
since his formative years as a DJ back
in Bogotá and Cali, noloves (aka Álvaro
Girón) started working seriously on his
own sound after moving to Toronto some
10 years ago. Based on field recordings
that helped him navigate a new culture
and territory, and sampling a deep trove
of Afro-Latin pioneering sounds that were
engraved in his memory, noloves aims to
create playfully uncanny environments and
moments in which the familiar meshes or
clashes with the foreign, and textures can
overtake the experience of a sequence of
sounds.
He’s collaborated onstage with Lido
Pimienta at the Eclectic Electrics Festival,
where he was billed for the closing night
last year alongside his Green Bunker pals
Edgardo M. and J-Lo, had it not been for a
massive storm that shut down the majority of the acts of the open-air event. Noloves
has also been part of the ongoing Audiopollination series in Toronto, improvising with
renowned players in the local scene. Is that same vein of collaborative improvisation,
which informs his contribution to Green Bunker, a malleable interplay propelled by
recent additions to his ever-growing sound archive.
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aluCine Catalogue 2016 - aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival

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