[Author]Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff[/Author]
A 65-min documentary filmed in the U.S. and Mexico.
In the desolate borderlands of the American Southwest, hundreds of undocumented immigrants die every year while attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico.
In response, volunteers are caching water supplies along the migratory trails and others are imagining cell phones running geo-poetic trail-finding software promising to lead migrants to water. Through the voices of those who have crossed, those who have failed, and those who are trying to prevent more deaths, a complex picture of the immigration crisis emerges.
At the Bay Model located at 2100 Bridgeway in Sausalito on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014 at 6 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
East Side Story and Chicano Soul History: Lowrider photo exhibit and more
In conjunction with the Lowriding season MCCLA is thrilled to present featured artists: Yolanda López, Art Meza, Adolfo Arias, and Fern Balladares whose art work represent lowrider culture past and present. Join us at the opening reception to meet the artists, hear excerpts of Meza’s Lowriting book, view screening of Why I Ride, a documentary on 80s lowrider car scene in San Francisco, walk along the display of lowrider cars parked in front of the center, and listen to oldies by DJ Soulera. Be a part of reclaiming public space. Don’t miss out.
Exhibit runs through Sept. 12, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco.
6th Annual San Francisco Latino Film Festival
Cine+Mas SF celebrates its 6th year of the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, opening with our annual kick-off event sponsored by KPIX-CBS local at their studios (855 Battery St, SF) on Tuesday, September 16, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The SFLFF program includes award winning and critically acclaimed documentary, feature and short films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay, Guatemala and the USA. Local and visiting filmmakers from around the country and Latin America will be in attendance.
The festival is proud to open this year at the Brava Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District, recently designated as the Latino Cultural Corridor. The opening night celebration will be at Brick & Mortar in San Francisco. Additional venues include Opera Plaza Cinemas (SF); Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (SF); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF); Red Poppy Art House (SF); Eastside Cultural Center (Oakland), La Peña Cultural Center (Berkeley); Mexican Heritage Plaza (San Jose).
“The festival’s purpose is to build community through film, while educating, entertaining, and recognizing the work of Latin American, Spanish and US Latino filmmakers which otherwise may not be seen in San Francisco,” said festival director Lucho Ramirez.
Some of the Short Films include a documentary animation this year: Frontera! Revolt & Revolution on the Upper Rio Grande, (USA/San Francisco), directed by John Jota Leaños, about the seminal events and colonial entries that have shaped the deeply contested territories of the US-Mexico Borderlands. Native and Chicano narrators recall this living history through memory, play, humor and song. The film is a collaboration between Chicano and Native artists in New Mexico and California.
From September 19 through the 27 at different locations in the SF Bay Area, with extended locations. For more info http://www.sflatinofilmfestival.org or call 415-826-7057. For tickets visit www.brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.
