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For Immediate Release
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO PRESENTS:
CIELO ABIERTO
Cielo Abierto: Rooftop Films at El Museo
Fridays, July 11, August 8, and Sept. 5, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Rooftop Films and El Museo del Barrio invite you to our summer outdoor screenings, which will highlight the work of independent films by emerging Latino filmmakers. El Museo’s top floor roof terrace will be open to the public to enjoy a selection of films as well as refreshments and live music. Admission: $9.
Please note: Space is very limited so we highly recommend ordering advance tickets at: http://tinyurl.com/5npj9r.
El Museo members may attend free, but must RSVP 24 hours in advance to: Nazira Handal at (212) 660-7143 or nhandal@elmuseo.org to reserve seats. Please bring your membership card to ensure preferred seating.
July 11:
We present two profound, accomplished documentaries that examine with unusual grace both the hard-fought joy and deep frustration experienced by some of Latin America’s most troubled citizens.
Live music before the films: 8:30 pm
Yerbabuena is composed of musicians, singers and dancers from the New York City area, who share an intense passion for the musical traditions of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. They describe their show as “a cross between a jam in the park, a spiritual ceremony and a family reunion.” Expect an uplifting, vibrant mix of bomba, plena and música jíbara.
Films begin at 9 pm:
THE CROWN/LA CORONA
In this pageant, the contestants are accused murderers, guerrillas, and thieves. The winner will be crowned Queen, but she won't be invited on a press tour as a role model for young girls. Instead, she will be escorted back to her cell.
Nominated for an Academy Award, La Corona documents the boisterous annual beauty pageants in El Buen Pastor, a women’s prison in Colombia. Every year the prison administration allows the various cellblocks to nominate one woman to represent them in the prison-wide competition, and the ensuing spectacle is so ostentatiously festive and irresistibly colorful that it is even covered by the national media. Colombian-born filmmaker Isabel Vega read about the pageants in an article and soon teamed with long-time collaborator Amanda Micheli to capture the uniquely Colombian event. Despite difficulties working with the warden, the filmmakers succeed in capturing the spirit of the affair and glimpses of the contestants’ complex motivations. Despite their hardships, the women rally around their nominees and show intense pride and loyalty to their cellblock communities, even in defeat.
Colombia, 2005, 45 min. Directed by Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega.
SOME KIND OF SADNESS/ALGUNA TRISTEZA
Beginning with ruminations on the Peruvian soccer team’s overturned victory in the 1936 Olympics, Juan Alejandro Ramirez’ mesmerizing documentary intertwines multiple themes—personal, political, historical and anthropological—and creates a uniquely magical tapestry, shaded in the hues of his native countryside. This group of seemingly unrelated vignettes are always intensely emotional in tone, and often center on questions of race, identity, and culture: the ill-feeling after the stolen victory (widely believed to have been decided on grounds of race); a moody cab driver's blind faith for a better future; the emptiness of a discovery that was never recognized; the alienation of an outsider in a remote Amazonian town; and the determination of a trio of waiters aboard a train that runs across the barren Southern Andean tundra. Taken together, these episodes run together like a narrated home movie exploring a culture and social conditions that have made sadness a way of life.
Peru, 2006, 41 min. Directed by Juan Alejandro Ramirez.
*In the event of rain, the show will be held indoors at the same location.
SAVE THE DATES OF AUG. 8 AND SEPT. 5 FOR OUR OTHER ROOFTOP FILMS--TITLES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
CIELO ABIERTO: Cine en los Jardines de El Barrio / Outdoor Programs Summer 2008 / El Museo del Barrio
In collaboration withNew York Restoration Project, El Museo del Barrio presentsCIELO ABIERTO: Cine en los Jardines de El Barrio, three nights of films for families. The screenings, held in East Harlem’s community gardens, are the perfect excuse to enjoy great films and mingle with friends and neighbors. BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR! Please note: all films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
En colaboración con New York Restoration Project, El Museo del Barrio presenta CIELO ABIERTO: Cine en los Jardines de El Barrio, tres noches de cine en español para la familia. Las proyecciones, en distintos jardines comunitarios de East Harlem, son la excusa perfecta para disfrutar de películas en compañía de vecinos y amigos. TRAIGA SU PROPIA SILLA!
FRIDAY JULY 18:
FAMILIA RODANTE (Rolling Family)
Friday, July 18, 2008, 8:30- 10:30 pm FREE ADMISSION
Location: 103rd Street Community Garden, 105 East 103rd Street, El Barrio.
Emilia, la abuela de la familia, vuelve a su pueblo natal para ser madrina de boda de una sobrina lejana. Su familia decide acompañarla emprendiendo travesía a bordo de una casa rodante donde los sentimientos de cuatro generaciones se expresan a flor de piel. Precedida por ‘Emilia’, una historia que habla del amor incondicional que una pareja siente por su hija de seis años.
When a grandmother returns to her homeland to be the matron of honor at her niece’s wedding, she brings her whole family along. Four cramped generations set off on a cross-country journey in a modest RV . Along the way, their true feelings come to the surface. Preceeded by Emilia, a story about the unconditional love a couple has for their six-year-old daughter.
Familia Rodante, (Rolling Family) Dir. Pablo Trapero (2006, Argentina, 95 min, Spanish with subtitles)
Emilia, Dir. Carla Valencia (2006, Ecuador, 7 min, silent)
FRIDAY AUG. 15:
VIVA CUBA!
Friday, August 15, 2008, 8:30 – 10:30 pm. FREE ADMISSION
Location: Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden, 437 East 114th Street, El Barrio.
Malú y Jorgito, dos niños que se han prometido amistad para toda la vida—a pesar de que sus familias se detestan—deciden iniciar un viaje al interior de Cuba en busca del padre de Malú. Precedida por Emilia, una historia que habla del amor incondicional que una pareja siente por su hija de seis años.
Malu and Jorgito are best friends despite the feud between their families. They embark on a rollicking odyssey from the streets of Havana across the Cuban countryside in search of Malu’s father. Preceeded by Emilia, a story about the unconditional love that a couple has for their six-year-old daughter.
Viva Cuba! Dir. Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti (2005, Cuba, 80 min,Comedy, Spanish with Subtitles)
Emilia, Dir. Carla Valencia (2006, Ecuador, 7 min, silent)
FRIDAY AUGUST 29:
PERICO RIPIAO
Friday, August 29, 2008 8:30 – 10:30 pm FREE ADMISSION
Location: 103rd Street Community Garden, 105 East 103rd Street, El Barrio.
Tres hombres que, sin planificación alguna, tienen la oportunidad de escapar de una cárcel dominicana, utilizando como únicas armas una güira, una tambora y un acordeón. Los tres se embarcan en un disparatado viaje en el que se ven forzados a usar sus instrumentos para volver a casa con sus familias. Precedida por Camión de Carga: Precedida por Camión de Carga: Manteniendo en secreto su enfermedad terminal, una madre soltera inicia un peligroso viaje a Estados Unidos con su único hijo en busca de una cura para su enfermedad.
Three convicted criminals escape from a Dominican prison carrying only a güira, a drum, and an accordion. During their journey they cross paths with a bunch of unusual characters, and are forced to use their instruments to get them home to their families. Preceeded by “Camión de Carga” (“Cargo Truck”): Keeping her terminal illness a secret, a single mother decides to embark on a dangerous trip to the United States with her only son in search of a cure to her illness.
Perico Ripiao,Dir. Ángel Muñiz (2003, Dominican Republic, 100 min, Comedy, Spanish with Subtitles)
Camión de Carga Dir. Juan Sebastian Jacome (2007, Ecuador, 9 min, Spanish with Subtitles)
This program is made possible by The Altman Foundation, Time Warner, The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, The Wallace Foundation. Public Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Senator José M. Serrano, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The New York State Council on The Arts, a State agency.
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