VENEZUELAN CINEMA/CINEMA VENEZOLANO--10/1 AND 10/2--free and open to the public!

Starting tomorrow!

 

 

 

VENEZUELAN CINEMA/CINEMA VENEZOLANO—PART 1

The Cinema of Venezuela 1995-2015 | El cine que hemos hecho en estos años. 1995 – 2015 

INVITED SPEAKER: Haydeé Chavero González (Chair of the Cinema and Communications Department Universidad Central de Venezuela. Founder Caracas Filminuto and President Fundación Audiovisual FACIL)

 

Panel discussion with Pitt Hispanic Languages and Literature faculty:

John Beverly and Juan Duchesne  

(In Spanish with English translation) 

 

Date: Thursday October 1, 2015

Reception: 6:30pm (light refreshments will be provided)

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium –UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

For more information: Karen Goldman at kgoldman@pitt.edu

Free and open to the public

 

For more information about the movies listed below go to: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/ven_cine

NOSTALGIA. Gustavo Rondón / 18 min / Venezuela / 2010 

LA MULA MUERTA | DEAD MULE. Rafael Velásquez / 12 min / Venezuela / 2011

COLMILLO | FANG.  Albi Abreu / 19 min / Venezuela /  2010  

I WANNA SHINE. Prakriti Maduro / 8 min / Venezuela / 2011  

Sponsored by: El Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía de Venezuela (CNAC).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS at the University of Pittsburgh, the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Ch and Duke University, and the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 

PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS: VENEZUELAN FILM WITH HAYDEE CHAVERO—Part 2

Date: Friday October 2, 2015

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall (4^th Floor, Wesley Posvar Hall)

For more information: Karen Goldman at kgoldman@pitt.edu

 

PAPITA, MANI, TOSTON. Luis Carlos Hueck / 90 min / Venezuela, 2013 | Spanish with English subtitles

Andrés (Jean Pierre Agostini) is a fan of Los Leones del Caracas one of the main baseball teams of Venezuela. Julissa (Juliette Pardau) is a fan of Los Navegantes del Magallanes, the rival team. One day Andrés gets tickets to see the game in Magallanes' VIP Zone. He meets Julissa and her dad who is not only fan but one of the team's managers. Andres and Julissa will fall in love and will have to pretend to be fan of the other's team. But soon trouble will arise.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/U4Gqb2BzI6Y

 

Sponsored by: El Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía de Venezuela (CNAC).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS at the University of Pittsburgh, the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Ch and Duke University, and the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.