por el Carla Selman
Cine en blanco y negro en México
The fi lm series “Going South: American Noir in Mexico” will take place in Pacifi c Film Archive from Friday, July 1 until Friday, July 29. In cinema, Mexico is a welcoming haven where the hoodlum can disappear into the disorder of daily life, aided by corrupt officials serving a sanctioned demimonde of privacy and plunder. Throughout the forties and fifties, fictive fugitives headed toward the border in desperate flight from apprehension. For some noirs, such a s R i d e t h e P i n k Horse (1947) or Where Danger Lives (1950), the border is all, a lawless endpoint in a long fl ight from justice.
For others, the interior lays bare its promise of shelter and either foils fl ight, as in The Hitch-Hiker (1953), or reveals unanticipated dangers, as in His Kind of Woman (1951) and Kansas City Confidential (1952). And then there is lurid love, lost or found below the borderin Out of the Past (1947) and The Great Flamarion (1945), torrid and most often terminal. 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.
Patricia Castañeda is honored with the “Latino International Book Awards”
Colombian writer and actress Patricia Castañeda was awarded the “12th Latino International Book Awards” for her book Virginia Casta in the category Fiction, for Best Romantic Novel in Spanish. Authors from all over the world participated in this festival, which is supported by the well-known actor Edward James Olmos. Virginia Casta is the love story around the romantic adventures of a 30 year-old girl from Cali, when she is supposed to fi nd “the love of her life”. And she most likely fi nds him, although he happens to be the wrong man.
Latino Literacy Now hands every year the “Latino International Book
Award”, with which acknowledges the excellence of more than a hundred works written or published by Latin- Americans all over the world.
At least 35 theater companies will participate in the International Theatre Festival in Puerto Rico
The Ministry of Culture and the National Theater confirmed that at least 35 national and foreign theater companies will participate in an International Theater Festival, which begins June 16.
This seventh edition of the festival will present for the first time foreign plays with companies from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, United States, Mexico, Israel, Peru and Venezuela, said actress and national theater director Karina Noble. Companies like Teatro Factoría (Spain), Teatre de l Homme Dibuixa and Kulunka Teatro (Argentina), Tibia Teatro (Brazil), Oco teatro (Chile), and Teatro Inmigrante (Colombia) are scheduled to perform in the festival, which ends June 26.
Actress Eva Longoria joins efforts to protect child farmworkers
Actress and activist Eva Longoria joined Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) and other child advocates today in announcing the introduction of “The Children’s Act for Responsible Employment” (CARE), legislation which ensures adequate protections for children working in our nation’s agricultural fields. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard said agriculture is the only industry governed by labor laws that allow children as young as 12 to work and that leads them to drop out of school at four times the national dropout rate.
Exposing the hardships of child farmworkers, The Harvest /La Cosecha, a new film by Shine Global, U. Roberto Romano and Executive Producer Eva Longoria, examines the day-to-day lives of child migrant laborers. Eva Longoria said, “Using my voice to help Shine Global and U. Roberto (Robin) Romano raise awareness about the plight of farmworker children in agriculture has been…one of the most important issues I have had the opportunity to work on.”
