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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Buy VIP All-Access Pass ($85) | Buy Festival Weekend Pass ($30)
Buy Awards Dinner Ticket ($65)
| Free Matinee Screenings Sponsored by Target
(10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) |
| 10a.m. |
San Antonio Student Film Showcase
Co-Sponsored
by Avenida Guadalupe Association
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Skye
Dir. Yoomi Park, 30 min., USA, 2009
Premio Mesquite Award Winner Emerging Artist
Free Youth Screening |
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Life as a teenager is tough. It gets a little tougher when Skye
begins to question her sexuality. Follow Skye’s journey of self-realization
as she comes out to her friends and family. Can she handle
the changes of living as a gay teenager?
Director Yoomi Park will be in attendance for a post-screening
Q&A session. |
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Participating student programs include GCAC
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AGA's Cine En El Barrio, Say Sí, Cinema North East,
Film School of San Antonio, and the Mustang Cinema Club. |
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| 12p.m. |
Latino Genius: Locos, Dreamers and Visionaries
Dir. Ray Santisteban, 18 min., USA, 2009 |
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This documentary explores the events that occurred when “Los MacArturos”, a collective of Latino/a MacArthur Fellows, met in San Antonio in October of 2007 to host community dialogues seeking innovative solutions to issues facing the Latino community. |
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Stages
Dir. Meerkat Media Collective, 83
min., USA, 2009
Co-presented by the Esperanza Peace and Justice
Center |
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In New York City’s changing Lower East Side, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, evolution, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by the liberating power of their own stories. Collaboratively directed by twelve people, Stages is the Meerkat Media Collective’s first feature-length film. Meerkat Media has also produced over twenty short films, which have been featured in film festivals and screenings nationally and internationally. Through skill sharing and collective authorship, Meerkat Media strives to create works with a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative process. Director Ray Santisteban, and members of the Meerkat Media Collective will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A session. |
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| 2-4p.m. |
Free Professional Development Panels
Co-presented
by Cine Studio San Antonio |
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New Muslim Cool
Dir. Jennifer Maytorena Taylor,
55 min., USA, 2009
Premio Mesquite Award Winner: Best Documentary |
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Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Muslim. Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through his uncompromising music as part of the hip-hop duo M-Team. Raising his two kids as a single dad and longing for companionship, Hamza finds love on a Muslim networking website and seizes the chance for happiness in a second marriage. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post- 9/11 world, and challenge himself. He starts reaching for a deeper understanding of his faith, discovering new connections with people from Christian and Jewish communities. Hamza follows his spiritual journey to some surprising places — where we can all see ourselves reflected in a world that never stops changing.
Director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A session. |
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6p.m.
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CineFestival Premio Mesquite Awards Dinner
(Buy awards dinner ticket.) |
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| 8p.m. |
Clumsy Sky (Limited tickets may be available on stand by.)
Dir. by Jim Mendiola, 3 min., USA, 2007
Produced by Faith Radle |
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Shot on location at Lerma’s Night Club, the legendary San Antonio
conjunto bar, this music video imagines a cross-generational
appreciation of local band Girl in a Coma. Cameos by local artists
L.A. David and Cruz Ortiz. The video has been broadcast nationally
and is featured in, American Sabor, the traveling exhibit of
Latino music curated by Seattle’s Experience Music Project. |
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Tijuaneros (Limited tickets may be available on stand by.)
Dir. by Paul Bobadilla, 20 min., Mexico/USA, 2009
Premio Mesquite Award Winner: Best Short Film |
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Pedro is an aspiring photographer who must choose between
his camera or a gun when he photographs the death of his best
friend. |
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La Mission (Limited tickets may be available on stand by.)
Dir. Peter Bratt, 118 min., USA, 2009
Premio Mesquite Award Winner: Special Jury Award
Co-presented by Cine Studio San Antonio |
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Set in the colorful, seedy streets of the San Francisco district
that bears its name, La Mission is a story of redemption imbued
with the curative power of Aztec tradition. Feared, yet respected,
as the baddest Chicano on the block, Che (Benjamin Bratt), a reformed
inmate and recovering alcoholic, resorts to violence and
intimidation to get what he wants. A bus driver by day, Che lives
for his beloved son, Jesse, his lifelong friends, and his passion
for lowrider cars. Che and the “Mission Boyz” salvage junked
cars, transforming them into classics. Che’s macho world is
crushed when he discovers that Jesse’s been living a secret life.
In a violent rage, Che pummels Jesse and throws him but of the
house. Lena, an attractive neighbor and a force to be reckoned
with, is a woman with a few secrets of her own. Mutual attraction
percolates as Lena challenges Che to reconcile the life he thought
he had. CineFestival veteran Peter Bratt (Follow Me Home) returns
with a powerful second feature. Propelled by commanding
performances from Jeremy Ray Valdez as Jesse and Erika Alexander
as Lena—and featuring an exceptional turn by Benjamin
Bratt—La Mission is a haunting story of healing and transformation:
the healing of a broken man, of a father’s relationship with
his son, and of a neighborhood struggling to break the chains of
violence.
Directors Peter Bratt, Paul Bobadilla, Jim Mendiola, and Producers
Benjamin Bratt and Faith Radle will be in attendance for a
post-screening Q&A session. |
Buy VIP All-Access Pass ($85) | Buy Festival Weekend Pass ($30)
Buy Awards Dinner Ticket ($65)
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