We hope you are enjoying the summer as much as we are. This month's newsletter introduces some new titles including Hartos Evos aquí hay (Plenty of Evos Here), Apaga y vamonos (Switch Off) and Seres extravagantes (Odd People Out); a new traveling Latin American documentary film festival that features the best new docs from the region including En el hoyo (In the Pit), El telón de azúcar (Sugar Curtain), Tocar y luchar (To Touch and To Fight), and more; and a look back on our first year in business!
Please read more below.
Best regards,
Brian Knighten
Director, Las Américas Film Network
Section links:
- New Titles Available
- New Traveling Documentary Film Festival
- One Year Retrospective of Las Américas Film Network
- Current LAFN films on tour
- Immigration Film Series
These new titles are available now from Las Américas Films. Click the links below to visit their websites and learn more about these new films.
Available Now:
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Apaga y vamonos (Switch Off) |
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Hartos Evos aquí hay (Plenty of Evos Here) |
TRAVELING DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
This spring and summer Las Américas staff traveled to some of the best festivals in the U.S. to bring you high quality, engaging and well-researched films. In September we will release our second traveling documentary film festival featuring some of the most internationally renowned titles to come out in recent years. Titles include: En el hoyo (In the Pit), El telón de azúcar (Sugar Curtain), Tocar y luchar (To Touch and To Fight), La otra copa (The Other Cup), Oscar, Amando a Maradona (Loving Maradona), Apaga y vamonos and more.The festival will feature ten documentary films, allowing hosting organizations to select four or more titles for their particular series to be screened as a public performance. Included in the rental agreement will be donation of the films to your organization(with the exception of El telón de azucar), poster and postcards advertising the event and a URL for each location to post details of their screening. More information on this year’s film series will be available in August or you may contact Brian Knighten to get more information now.
Las Américas Film Network was founded one year ago and since then we have made some impressive strides that we would like to share with you. Check out the stats we’ve built during our first year of business.
- We have returned over $20,000 to filmmakers!
- Unique daily visitors to our website average 20 per day (165 was our highest after a feature on Media Rights.org)
- Our Favela Rising curriculum written by Teacher’s College has been downloaded 873 times.
- Our Immigration Film Festival series screened in three cities last spring with one more this summer and two in the fall.
- The curriculum guide for immigration film series has been downloaded 81 times.
These numbers don’t compete with Miramax, but they put a smile of our face. Thank you all for making this possible.
UPCOMING LAS AMÉRICAS FILM SCREENINGS
Favela Rising:
Queens Museum of Art (NYC), July 12, 2007
Sambarchitecture exhibition (Sweden) July 15, 2007
People in Peril (Slovakia), July 21, 2007
Hanover Festival (Germany), July 22, 2007
Global Visions Film Festival (Edmonton, Alberta), August 1-4, 2007
Columbia University Outdoor Screening (NYC), August, 2007
Kansas State University (Kansas, US) August 26, 2007
Perspektive Festival (Germany), October 1-10, 2007
With the current debate and precarious situation of immigrants in the US, there has never been a more critical time to engage your community in this discussion. Las Américas Film Network is pleased to present a four-part, feature-length documentary film series on immigration, exposing sides of the immigration debate you may have never seen. These films go beyond the rhetoric of policy and take an in-depth look at what it means to be migrate and to be an immigrant – whether legal or illegal. Titles include: El Inmigrante, De Nadie, Wetback and Guestworker. Collectively these films have won awards at Sundance, CineQuest, Chicago Latino Film Fest, Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival, and many more..
Rental of the festival includes posters and postcards advertising the festival, as well as a curriculum guide for each movie. Each festival sponsor will be given space on the website <www.immigrationfilmfest.org> to post information about their screenings. This URL will be printed on all promotional materials. The festival can be screened for audiences as free and open to the public or with a requested donation as a fund raiser. Directors may also be available for screenings at your site. Special discounts for K12 schools are available.
How the festival works:
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Rental of the festival includes donation of each DVD to your organization.
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Each festival comes with posters and postcards advertising the event at your location, as well as 26 page discussion guide developed by Breakthrough (a New York based human rights organization).
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Each rental is given web space at www.immigrationfilmfest.org in order to advertise the details of your particular screening.
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Once the festival is rented, the films can be shown whenever you wish, as many times as you wish.
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Each screening can be free and open to the public. No tickets can be sold, but donations can be requested.
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In some cases, the directors may be available for a visit, but this is not included in the rental and negotiations with the directors will be your sole responsibility.
Upcoming series screenings:
Tulane University, (Louisiana, US) July 12-16, 2007
Ohio State University (Ohio, US), Fall 2007
Johns Hopkins University (Maryland, US), Fall 2007
Organizations in DC, Dallas and New York are currently looking for co-sponsors to present this series. If your organization is based in these areas and are interested in a partnership, please contact us.