(San Antonio, TX, November 10, 2005) The San Antonio College Film Society welcomes CineFestival the country¹s 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 ³Residencia,² 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 ³University Residence Santiago² 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 ³The Hope of the Family² 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 ³Residencia² 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
