NCLAFF: Branco Sai, Preto Fica | White Out, Black In

Date: October 21, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Address: Chelsea Theatre

Book launch (at 6:30pm) Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil. Cinematic Archives of the Present (2019), and introduction to the film by author Professor Gustavo Furtado.

On March 5, 1986, in a run-down disco on the outskirts of Brasilia, a group of cops used a drug raid as an excuse to severely beat everyone present in the dive; all of those beaten were black. The policemen were heard shouting, “White out, black in.” Marquim and Sartana, two victims of the event, remember that terrible day; the former lost a leg and the latter remains paralyzed. However, remembrance is not all they want. Partially following the wishes of his protagonists, Adirley Queirós chooses to register the mysterious everyday life of these characters in the present instead of recreating their past while allowing them to stage a fantasy to exorcise this bygone event. The staging includes time travelling and an imaginary attack against the capital city, Distrito Federal. A potential historic and political documentary becomes a rebellious and therapeutic piece of fiction.

Preceded by short film: Mãtãnãg: The Enchanted Woman.
Dir. Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 2019. 12 min. Introduced by director Charles Bicalho. Mãtãnãg, an indigenous woman, follows the spirit of her husband, killed by a snake, to the village of the dead. Together they overcome the obstacles that separate the earthly world from the spirit world. Once in the land of the spirits, things are different: other ways govern the supernatural. But Mãtãnãg is not dead and her soul must return to the living ones. Back in the village, reunited with their relatives, new vicissitudes during a ritual will provide the opportunity for the living and the dead to reconnect once again. With the script based on research on the indigenous oral tradition, the film is spoken in the Maxakali language and subtitled. The illustrations for the film were made in a workshop at Aldeia Verde (Green Village), in the municipality of Ladainha, in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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Cinematic Archives Reading Group

Date: October 21, 2019
Time: 5:30pm
Address: 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

CINEMATIC ARCHIVES Reading Group
In preparation of the launching of the book Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil. Cinematic Archives of the Present (2019) by Gustavo Furtado (Oxford University Press) the NCLAFF, The Chelsea Theatre, The Duke Brazil Initiative, and Screen Society invite to a fun and intellectually stimulating reading group!!!

*The first 5 people to sign up will get a copy of the book the day of the launching!!! Another 5 books will be giving away the day of the launching.

Participants of the CINEMATIC ARCHIVES Reading Group will meditate and converse on the selected chapters of the book that help us to think through some of the most avant-garde films during the consolidation (or not) of the Brazilian democracy after 1985. Brazil’s highly unequal society, witnessed in this period the rise of film and documentary production to unprecedented vitality in quantity, quality, and diversity.

A limited number of copies of each text are available in advance by RSVP to:
mlr34@duke.edu (Subject CINEMATIC ARCHIVES) | sing until October 4.

Join us on October 21, 5:30 pm at SPECIAL TREATS (next to the Chelsea Theatre), before the launch of Professor Gustavo Furtados’s book to have a lively discussion with the Autor. Followed by a formal presentation of the Book at 7:00pm.

Location: “SPECIAL TREATS” Next to the Chelsea Theatre: Local cinema showing indie & art house films on 3 screens. Timberlyne Shopping Center
Address: 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Check for directions HERE
Time: 5:30pm.
* (Pizza and wine for reading group participants)

(followed by the screenings of:)
Monday. October 21 | Chelsea Theatre Art Cinema, Chapel Hill. Timberlyne Shopping Center
Address: 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 | Check for directions HERE

Mãtãnãg: The Enchanted Woman. Shawara Maxakali & Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 2019. 12 min. (Animation)
Maxakali language with English subtitles.

Introduced by Director Charles Bicalho.

White Out, Black In | Branco Sai, Preto Fica. Adirley Queirós. Brazil. 2015. 89 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.

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Pedro X. Molina on the Art of Resistance

Date: October 8, 2019
Time: 5:30pm
Address: Fed Ex Global Education Center, Fourth Floor

Pedro X. Molina will speak on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, on the fourth floor of the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at 5:30 p.m. https://www.facebook.com/events/1382765928557211/

In 2017 Pedro X. Molina was a prolific participant in the #FreeNseRamon campaign demanding freedom for fellow illustrator and political cartoonist, Ramón Nsé Esono Ebale, who was imprisoned for his work criticizing the government of his own country, Equatorial Guinea. Esono Ebalé’s work and Molina’s contributions to the #FreeNseRamon campaign are both featured in The Art of Resistance exhibition on display throughout the FedEx Global Education Center until December 13, 2019. Come hear/see Molina share his work in Nicaragua and his efforts to support freedom of expression everywhere.
Pedro X. Molina, also known as “PxMolinA,” is an internationally acclaimed political cartoonist, illustrator and journalist from Nicaragua. In December 2018, when the offices of news media outlet Confidencial were taken over by government forces, Molina fled his country during a national crackdown on journalists and government critics. He and his colleagues continue to publish daily in Confidencial.com.ni, either from exile or from other locations in Nicaragua. In summer 2019, Molina won the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Award in international journalism from Columbia Journalism School. In 2018, Molina won the Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award from Cartoonists Rights Network International, as well as the Excellence in Journalism award from the Inter American Press Association.
Sponsors
This event is sponsored by the Humanities for the Public Good Initiative, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Global Relations, Center for Media Law and Policy, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Department of Romance Studies and UNC Global.

Event Contact
Angela Stuesse, associate professor of anthropology and global studies at the UNC-Chapel Hill, astuesse@unc.edu
About the Exhibition
The Art of Resistance showcases artwork Ramón Esono Ebalé created prior to and during his imprisonment and original artwork created for the exhibition, as well as the art by those who advocated for him during his imprisonment. The exhibition touches on themes of human rights and freedom of speech, as Esono Ebalé’s story and art implore audiences to see the right of expression as an essential human right. His work illustrates the dangers often faced by those who speak out against injustices.

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Theatrical Translation as Creative Process: A conference Festival II

Date: October 14, 2019 – October 14, 2019
Time: Various Times: Schedule can be found on the website: https://the-mercurian.com/theatrical-translation-as-creative-process-a-conference-festival-ii/

The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, in collaboration with the Process Series, the Department of Dramatic Art, the Department of Romance Studies, and UNC Global, at the University of North Carolina, and the Language Acts and Worldmaking project at King’s College, London, will hold a conference/festival on theatrical translation as creative process. Staged readings of translated material with the translators in attendance will be presented, open space will be provided for discussion of theatrical translation, as well as cold readings of portions of new translations, among other events. More information to come at a later date, but put October on your calendar and let us know if you plan to attend!
The event will be held in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from October 10-13, 2019. For any questions and to let us know about your plans to attend, please get in touch with Adam Versényi at anversen@email.unc.edu.
To register for the event, please complete this registration form. For information about Chapel Hill, check out this helpful guide. For any questions about logistics, please feel free to reach out to Sarah at skbooker@live.unc.edu.
Note on Cold Reading: We have made space on Saturday afternoon for cold readings of excerpts from translations by the conference participants. If you would like to have an excerpt of one of your translations done in a cold reading by actors that afternoon, please let Adam Versényi know what you would like to do and what the casting requirements would be.

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NCLAFF: Low Hanging Fruit

Date: October 24, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Address: Fed Ex Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium, Chapel Hill

Dir. Kaley Clements. Mexico/USA/China. 2019. 50 min.
Low Hanging Fruit follows avocados as a commodity in Michoacán, the only state in México allowed to export the product into the USA. Through this seemingly monopolistic practice, Low Hanging Fruit uncovers the social conflicts and environmental problems spurring the ongoing genocide of the Indigenous Purepecha People, the devastation of forests and other public lands, and connects it to migration into the US. Thus exposing the multifaceted layers created by the structure of a globalizing economy that allows for 80 percent of the world’s supply of avocados to come from a region notorious for being controlled by the drug cartels now known as the green cartels.
Preceded by the short:
Konagxeka: The story of the Maxakali’s Flood
Director: Isael Maxakali e Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 2016. 13 min.
Language: Maxakali (English subtitles)
Director Charles Bicalho will be present to discuss the film. Konãgxeka in the maxakali indigenous language means “big water.” It’s the maxakali version of the great flood. As a punishment because of selfishness and greed of men, the yãmîy spirits send the “big water.” One of the directors is representative of the Maxakali indigenous people in the state of Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. The illustrations for the film were made by indigenous Maxakali during workshops held at Aldeia Verde (Maxakali Green Village).

Parking available in parking garage for $1 for the evening.

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NCLAFF: Todos Saben | Everybody Knows

Date: November 19, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Address: Fed Ex Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium, Chapel Hill

Asghar Farhadi. France, Spain, Italy. 2018. 132 min. English

Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Ricardo Darín star in the new psychological thriller from Academy Award®-winning director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman).

The story follows Laura (Penélope Cruz), a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, who returns with her children to her hometown outside Madrid for a wedding. The mood is festive, and many faces from the past are present for the nuptials, including Paco (Javier Bardem), a longtime friend of the family. When Laura’s daughter goes missing, and text messages arrive asking for ransom, the happy reunion takes a hard turn into nightmarish territory, bringing secrets into the open. With Everybody Knows, Farhadi skillfully directs his most overtly suspenseful piece to date, keeping the screws turning while sacrificing none of the layered drama surrounding family and class for which he is known.

Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Among other awards, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for his films A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (2016), making him one of the few directors worldwide who have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film twice, along with such noted directors as Akira Kurosawa and René Clément. In 2012, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

Trailer:https://youtu.be/L68mUxKuAnA

*Parking available in parking garage for $1 for the evening.

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NCLAFF: Invasión | Invasion

Date: November 4, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Address: Fed Ex Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium, Chapel Hill

Dir. Abner Benaím. Panama. 2014. 94 min. PRAGDA Series. Spanish with English Subtitles

The invasion of Panama by the U.S in Christmas and New Year of 1989 – when American troops deposed dictator Manuel Noriega, killing an unknown number of civilians in the process – serves as an example to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order re-define their identity and become who they are today. Invasion documents the collective memory utilizing a combination of reenactments and interviews of the 1989 U.S. Invasion: Defense forces who fought symbolic battles, politicians who justify their actions, friends of the church, from civilians to former General Noriega. Did the “gringos” bring democracy or destruction? Was Noriega a victim or a villain? Was he an anti-Imperialist or a CIA accomplice gone rogue? Was it about drug trafficking or arms dealing, or perhaps neither? Or does it really just boil down to the fact that the U.S. wasn’t ready to relinquish control of the Panama Canal? These questions, many of which go intentionally unanswered, constitute the first Panamanian attempt to reconcile with a national trauma that many Panamanians have been all too eager to forget.

Trailer:https://youtu.be/wf3u8MRmv2g

*Parking available in parking garage for $1 for the evening.

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NCLAFF: Caiga quien caiga | All Can Fall

Date: October 25, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Address: Fed Ex Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium, Chapel Hill

Eduardo Guillot. Peru. 2018. 98 min.

*At 6:30pm, Duke professor Orin Starn and UNC-CH professor Miguel La Serna will discuss their most recent book, The Shining Path: Love, madness and revolution in the Andes (2019). Following the film there will be discussion with Peruvian film scholar Pablo Celis-Castillo from Elon University.*

Vladimiro Montesinos, head of Peru’s secret police and former president Alberto Fujimori’s closest adviser, spun a tight web of illegal activities. That web began to untangle when a video showing Montesinos attempting to bribe a congressman became public. Based on lead prosecutor José Ugaz’s memoir, Eduardo Guillot’s fast-paced thriller depicts his investigation as a cat and mouse game between a wily political operative and a straight arrow determined to bring him down no matter the consequences.

*Parking available in parking garage for $1 for the evening.*

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NCLAFF: Special Selection of Short Films from the Chicago Latino Film Festival

Date: October 23, 2019
Time: 6:30pm
Address: Fed Ex Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium, Chapel Hill

At 6:30, we will have a special presentation of Three Decades of (programing) Latin American Film Festivals in the U.S.A., with Sharon Mújica, founding director of NCLAFF, and María López programer Chicago Latino Film Festival.

Only the Moon | Solamente la luna
Director: Maya Cueva. Peru / USA / 2018 / 9 min. English. Animation / Documentary.
Only The Moon is an animated documentary about my father’s immigration story from Peru to the U.S., which visualizes his dreamlike memories of transformation through the ’60s, and what it means to grow old as a Latino immigrant in the age of Trump.

Strength and Cunning | La astucia y la fuerza
Dir. Francisco Novick. Argentina / 2017 / 10 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles. Documentary.
On the commemoration of the military dictatorship that kidnapped and killed his grandparents, Vicente, a 15-year-old boy, joins his father in a massive demonstration in Buenos Aires. For the first time, Vicente will embrace a central role at the forefront of the march. A story about commitment transcending generations told from the heart of a collective cause. Trailer here: https://vimeo.com/235291277

A. Dir. Joe Houlberg. Ecuador / 2018 / 16 min. Comedy.
A world with only one letter. The earliest certain ancestor of “A” is aleph (also written ‘aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet (which consisted entirely of consonants; for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it from a true alphabet). In turn, the ancestor of aleph may have been a pictogram of an ox head in proto-Sinaitic script influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs, styled as a triangular head with two horns extended.

Fishes’ Recall | La memoria de los peces
Dir. Christian Mejía Carrascal. Colombia / 2018 / 15 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles. Drama.
Aníbal, an old fisherman, returns to Nueva Venecia, a town of pile-dwelling houses in the heart of Ciénaga del Magdalena, on the Colombian Caribbean coast, from which he ran away many years ago after a massacre. Sick and exhausted he must rediscover his past to reconcile himself with his memory of pain. Trailer here: https://vimeo.com/268690253

Palante
Dir. Wesley L Rodríguez. Cuba / USA / 2018 / 8 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles. Drama.
After winning “El Bombo,” the Cuban-US immigration lottery, Estrella and her grandfather, an impoverished Cuban family, prepare for a journey of a lifetime. One step at a time. Trailer here: https://vimeo.com/229077055

Maradentro
Dir. Christa Boarini. Guatemala / USA / 2018 / 12 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles. Drama/Fantasy.
A fantastic discovery gets out of hand when artisanal fisherman Nacho and his young nephew Pato accidentally catch a childlike mermaid in their net. Unsure whether to help her, sell her, or release her back into the ocean, the two of them, along with Pato’s overprotective mother Magda, must decide what to do when a bit of magic invades their world.

Top 10 Places to Visit in São Paulo / Top 10 Lugares em São Paulo Dir: Akira Kamiki. Brazil / 2018 / 14 min. Portuguese & Spanish w/ English Subtitles. Drama/LGBTQ
On a Sunday, two photographers tour São Paulo. Despite a language barrier, they find a way to connect with the city and with each other, slowly falling in love. Trailer here: https://vimeo.com/253780099

Our Ingredients: Corn | Ingredientes nuestros: Maiz
Dir. César Rodríguez. USA / 2018 / 7 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles. Documentary.
Food is a unifying force across our communities. In this short film, we share the stories of three Latinos – each from a different country but now living in the same American city – who come together to share flavors of their homeland, all of which include one central ingredient.

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NCLAFF: Master class with Pepe Vargas

Date: October 21, 2019
Time: 11:45am – 1:00pm
Address: Social Science Building Room 311, Duke

Master class with Pepe Vargas and Economics of Entrepreneurship class with Grace Kim.

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