| ACCD
News & Events
SAC
involved with CineFestival
For
Immediate Release
November 10, 2005
Contact: Deborah Martin, San Antoino College, Public
Relations
(210) 733-2149
dmartin@accd.edu
The
San Antonio College Film Societywelcomes CineFestival
the country's oldest running international Latino
film and video festival, and a project of the Guadalupe
Cultural Arts Center to the college campus on
Friday, November 18, for a 1 p.m. screening of "Residencia,"
a Chilean-made film that follows the Dogme95 film
manifesto.
According to the Official Dogme95 website at www.dogme95.dk/,
the films are meant to challenge the conventional
film language in order to make authentic films,
in search of the truth, using no props, no additional
sound and so forth. The Dogme95 rules are intended
to inspire and raise a debate about film in general
and feature films in particular.
Artemio Espinosa directs the 80-minute film, which
is in Spanish with English subtitles. It features
Nello Torino, a 17-year-old man who goes to the capital,
Santiago, to begin his studies at a university. He
gets accepted at the "University Residence Santiago"
where he becomes friends with Cartulino, an older
and more experienced fellow, who guides him and teaches
him how to survive in the city. The city with all
its charm, fears and temptations will make many fail
only the strong survive and live with
the burden that labels them to be "The Hope of
the Family" and, thus, go back to their towns
and villages to prove to the people who wanted to
see them fail, that they really did make it.
The SAC Film Society will show "Residencia"
on Friday, November 18, at 1 p.m. in LRTF 101. The
event is free and open to all SAC students, and the
public. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. Seating is limited.
No reservations accepted -- admission is first-come,
first-served.
Additionally, CineFestival will show the short film
³Eavesdropping,² produced by SAC student
Roberto Flores as a Film Production class project,
on Friday, November 11, 6 p.m. at the Guadalupe Theatre.
The three minute-40 second film is about two people
having two different conversations on a cell phone.
The audience is first led to think one thing, but
then learns something different, demonstrating how
eavesdropping happens everywhere at work, at
school, in lines for stuff and sometimes just standing
around busy areas.
CineFestival will be held November 11 19, 2005
at the historic Guadalupe Theater and the new Guadalupe
Visual and Media Arts School and Galeria Guadalupe,
as well as at various college and university campuses.
The nine-day event provides an important regional
forum for viewing a, representative sampling of works
produced by and about the Chicano/Latino/Indigenous
people. CineFestival encourages the discussion and
critique of timely issues in the media arts. Parallel
panels, workshops, retrospectives and Sidebar programs
offer timely perspectives on issues pertinent to the
Chicano/Latino/Indigenous community. For more information,
visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/ mediaarts/cine2k4.htm
|
