Las Américas Film Network is a media-arts organization that promotes and distributes high-quality, award winning, documentary, feature and experimental films that explore the diversity and richness of Latin America.
NEW RELEASES FROM SOUTH AMERICA:
Brazil has released a number of internationally acclaimed films in the last few years; we are pleased to present a few of the award winners. From three very different aspects of Brazilian life, these new titles offer an insider’s view of contemporary Brazilian society.
First, MANDA BALA, winner of the 2007 Sundance Best Cinematography and Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, delivers a gut wrenching appraisal of politics, crime and corruption in this often stereotypical paradise. As the tagline for the film goes, “When the rich steal from the poor, the poor steal the rich.”
Next from Superfilmes and Figa, multi-award winner, ALICE’S HOUSE, brings us a side of Brazil rarely depicted on screen – the middle class. Called a “gem” at Berlinale, this film has won many top awards including Best Film, Best Actress and Best Screenplay at some of the world’s top festivals.
Finally, the documentary THE PRISON AND THE STREET brings an intimate portrait of three women in a Porto Alegre women’s prison. Shot in varieté style, the director does a tremendous job of capturing their most private moments. “In a unanimous decision, the Jury awards the Kikito for Best 35mm Full Length Documentary Film to ‘The Prison and the Street’, directed by Liliana Sulzbach, for the originality of its view of its subject, the sensitivity of its treatment of the characters, and its narrative structure.” - Gramado Festival 2004
We are very excited about two releases available in late August only from Las Américas Film Network. Both films focus on Cuba and deliver very personal and powerful stories. These films will be available late August, but if you would like to reserve your copy for the fall, contact us now.
THE MAN OF TWO HAVANAS
DOS PATRIAS: CUBA Y LA NOCHE (TWO HOMELANDS: CUBA AND THE NIGHT)