NCLAFF: La Historia Oficial | The Official History
Date: October 9, 2020 Time: 7:00pm
Directed by Luis Puenzo Country: Argentina Year: 1985 Length: 115 minutes
Description: Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the “junta militar” that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a successful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter.
The 2020 NCLAFF celebrates the festival’s 35th anniversary with an innovative format, a virtual synchronic model. We will start with NCLAFF Conversations | A mini Web Conference: Latin American and Caribbean Film in the Era of Neoliberalism (1985-2020)on October 9 and 10, 2020. We will follow with ten days (October 9 to 18), of screenings/streaming. The films were selected from the hundreds of films shown during the past 35 years of the NCLAFF. The NCLAFF is a great way for students to engage with Latin American history, cinema, and current topics!
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Directed by Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson Country: USA Year: 2006 Length: 53 minutes *Director in Attendance*
Description: On a hot, soggy day on a farm in North Carolina, 12 men sit on a porch watching the rain wash away another day’s work, another day’s wages. One of those men, 66-year-old Candelario, has been coming to the United States for 40 years, harvesting our crops and trying to provide for his family. Without benefits, without retirement, he battles against the elements, his own age, and the backbreaking work, returning to this farm year after year as, The Guestworker.
The 2020 NCLAFF celebrates the festival’s 35th anniversary with an innovative format, a virtual synchronic model. We will start with NCLAFF Conversations | A mini Web Conference: Latin American and Caribbean Film in the Era of Neoliberalism (1985-2020) on October 9 and 10, 2020. We will follow with ten days (October 9 to 18), of screenings/streaming. The films were selected from the hundreds of films shown during the past 35 years of the NCLAFF. The NCLAFF is a great way for students to engage with Latin American history, cinema, and current topics!
To see more about NCLAFF click on the Read More button below!
“Maestra” Film Virtual Discussion for UNC School of Education Students
Speaker: Corin Estrera Zaragoza and Audrey Fulton
Date: September 8, 2020 Time: 7:00pm
From September 1-8, the UNC School of Education and the Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies will be streaming the short film “Maestra.” This 33-minute documentary examines the impact of Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign, which sent 250,000 young people to teach over 700,000 of their fellow Cubans to read and write. UNC students are invited to join us on September 8 at 7 pm for a discussion of the film, the power of literacy, and the impact of teachers in society.
Sanctuary & Solidarity: Resisting the U.S. War on Refugees and Migrants
Speaker: Jennifer M. Chacón, Nicole Elizabeth Ramos, Brendan Cassidy, Hope Angelique Alvarado and Juan B. Mancias
Date: August 28, 2020 Time: 3:00pm
This convening brings together critical legal scholars, immigration attorneys, Indigenous leaders, and anti-deportation activists to offer analysis of the crisis imposed on refugees at the U.S. Mexico border and the human rights violations at ICE detention facilities. Centering Indigenous and migrant-led mobilizations against U.S. border imperialism on stolen land, it foregrounds pro bono assistance, accompaniment, shelter provision, and detention resistance in solidarity with asylum seekers as sanctuary practices that prefigure decolonial and abolitionist possibilities.
Speakers
• Jennifer M. Chacón, Professor of Law and Critical Race Studies, UCLA School of Law
• Nicole Elizabeth Ramos, Director, Border Rights Project of Al Otro Lado
• Brendan Cassidy, Member of Detention Resistance
• Hope Angelique Alvarado (Dine’ and Mescalero Apache), The Red Nation Tiwa
Territory (ABQ) Freedom Council Chair and the Co-Chair for the Beyond Borders Caucus
• Juan B. Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas
Moderated by
Veronika Zablotsky, Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Co-Sponsored with the UNC Law School and the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy-Sawyer Seminar
NCLAFF Conversations | A mini Web Conference: Latin American and Caribbean Film in the Era of Neoliberalism (1985-2020)
Date: October 9, 2020 – October 10, 2020 Time: 4:00- 5:30pm
The 2020 NCLAFF celebrates the festival’s 35th anniversary with an innovative format, a virtual synchronic model. We will start with NCLAFF Conversations | A mini Web Conference: Latin American and Caribbean Film in the Era of Neoliberalism (1985-2020) on October 9 and 10, 2020. We will follow with ten days (October 9 to 18), of screenings/streaming. The films were selected from the hundreds of films shown during the past 35 years of the NCLAFF.
Latin American and Caribbean Film in the Era of Neoliberalism (1985-2020)
This web-seminar is divided in three headings: Globalizing Latin American Cinema; Indigenous, Afro, and other Cinemas; and Teaching Latin American Cinema, giving an overall review on Latin American and Caribbean film production in the past three and a half decades.
Globalizing Latin American Cinema
Sophia A. McClennen | Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature. Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. McClennen is a professor of international affairs and comparative literature and the founding director of Penn State’s Center for Global Studies, a Title VI FLAS Center, and has ties to the departments of Spanish and Women’s Studies. She has published eleven books and has two in process. Her most recent monograph is Globalization and Latin American Cinema: Toward a New Critical Paradigm (Palgrave 2018). Sophia is a Duke Ph.D. (1995) who worked closely with the Latin American Film Festival while a student at Duke.
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky | Assistant Professor. University of Chicago.
Aguilera works on Latin American cinema and media; nonfiction cinema and media; Third Cinema; cinema and labor; race and representation; useful cinema. She got her Ph.D. From the University of Pittsburgh. Her most recent monograph is The Process Genre: Cinema and the aesthetics of labor (Duke 2020)
Manuel Sanchez Cabrera | Romance and Communication Studies. UNC-CH
Sanchez Cabrera works on issues of representation of central American subjects via fictional and documentary films. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill where he also teaches courses on language, culture, and cinema studies.
Indigenous, Afro and Other Cinemas
Amalia Córdova | Latino Digital Curator | Smithsonian Center for Folk Life & Cultural Heritage.
Amalia Córdova co-directs the Mother Tongue Film Festival, a project of the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative, and is currently the Center’s Chair of Cultural Research and Education. She has co-curated various festivals and showcases of Indigenous film and co-curated two On the Move immigration and migration programs for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She began her career at the Smithsonian in 2001, as a Latin American specialist for the Film + Video Center of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. She has taught courses on Indigenous film at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and served as assistant director of New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in cinema studies from New York University. She is from Santiago, Chile.
Emil Keme (Emilio del Valle Escalante) | Associate Professor, Romance Studies. UNC-CH
Emil Keme is a Guatemalan/K’iche Maya professor and researcher in Indigenous literatures and cultures and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent books deal with issues of nationalism in indigenous nations: Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity, and Identity Politics. Emil won the 2019 Casa de las Américas award on indigenous literature.
Gustavo Furtado | Associate Professor, Romance Studies. Duke University
Gustavo Furtado is Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Latin American Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University where he teaches classes on Latin American literature and cinema. His recent book: Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (2019) deals with alternative documentaries from Brazil. He is working on a new book on cinema from the Amazon.
Teaching Latin America and the Caribbean (with/through) Film.*
Antonio Gómez | Associate Professor and Interim Director of Graduate Studies. Department of Spanish and Portuguese.Tulane University.
Antonio Gómez’s research interests include narratives of dislocation, especially from Cuba and Argentina, new poetics of documentary in Latin American, and the writing of recent history in a postnational context. He is the author of Escribir el espacio ausente. Exilio y cultura nacional en Díaz, Wajsman y Bolaño (Cuarto Propio, 2013). He teaches courses and seminars in Latin American literature, cinema, and cultural studies. He is co-editing the volume “Teaching Latin American Film” with professor Ana López.
Ana M. López | Director – Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, Professor. Tulane University.
Professor López is one of the most important Latin American film scholars to date. Her most recent co-edited volume with Marvin D‘Lugo, Ana Lopez, and Laura Podalasky, The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema (Routledge, 2018), shares the latest research on Latin American film. She is working with Antonio Gómez on the volume “Teaching Latin American Film.”
Liliana Paredes | Director of Spanish Language Program. Duke University. Professor of the Practice of Romance Studies.
Paredes has worked for decades on second language acquisition of vocabulary, language, and culture. She also works on curricular implications of low, mid, and high stakes activities to understand writing in a second language; development of intercultural competence; and assessment. As director of the Spanish Language Program she has led strategies and best practices on the use of films for language and cultural acquisition.
(*) A second part of Teaching Latin America and the Caribbean (with/through) Film will take place on October 17 with a K-14 Teacher Training Workshop. With participation local Film Maker Scott Temple, Charlie Thompson, and NCLAFF director Miguel Rojas Sotelo.
Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education book launch
Speaker: Kia Lilly Caldwell and Emily Chávez
Date: July 30, 2020 Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm Address: Virtual
Join us in a virtual launch for a new book, Engaging the African Diaspora in K through 12 Education on Thursday, July 30th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm EDT. Please view below for the list of confirmed speakers!
Speakers:
Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Professor of History, Norfolk State University
Hasan Jeffries, Associate Professor of African American History, The Ohio State University
Christopher Busey, Assistant Professor, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida
Elizabeth Milligan Cordova, History Teacher, High Tech Early College, Denver
Holly Jordan, Teacher, International Baccalaureate, Hillside High School, Durham
Ronda Taylor Bullock, Lead Curator, weare, Durham
Moderators:
Kia Lilly Caldwell, Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Emily Chávez, Director of Equity and Justice, Duke School, Durham
To view more information on the book, click the Read More button below.
Why are Latinx communities in North Carolina disproportionately impacted by the current COVID-19 pandemic?
Join Building Integrated Communities and UNC World View for a Twitter chat on Wednesday, 1pm EDT to discuss and learn about resources to support our neighbors. Be sure to use the hashtag #WorldViewChats
Prepare for the chat ahead of time with: suggested readings
Everyone is welcome to participate, especially educators!
NC teachers earn CEU/PDCH for participating. For more details on getting the credit click here.
Ayudantes Escolares Volunteers will be attending this training on Behavior Management Skills for online education, specifically targeted towards elementary-aged children.
Ms. Shelley Gilmore, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years of experience specializing in outpatient therapy techniques with children and adolescents. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, she has switched from interactive play and art therapy inventions to doing online virtual therapy sessions since March 2020 with children and has experience and training in how to best work with children and the distractions at home.
Our virtual tutoring program, Ayudantes Escolares, will be having a group training workshop with Kat Rangel, a DL/ESL Lead Teacher at the International Welcome Center via Chapel Hill and Carrboro County Schools. Additionally, the incoming assistant principal of Frank Porter Graham Bilingual Elementary School will be attending.
Join us for the first of two webinars focusing on Brazil. Session One will explore The Choices Program’s curriculum unit Brazil: A History of Change. This curriculum draws students into an often surprising and overlooked history of the largest country in South America by giving students an overview of Brazil’s past and tracing its legacies through the present. Session Two (date TBD) will feature an expert from the Duke Brazil Initiative to deepen content knowledge of the country.
Participants who attend the webinar will receive a free digital or print edition of the Brazil: A History of Change curriculum. Space is limited to the first 25 high school teachers who register. CEUs available! Email Corin Zaragoza Estrera to register: czaragozaestrera@unc.edu
Session one will be led by Mimi Stephens, Director of Professional Development, The Choices Program at Brown University.
