4th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival » Press http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1 Atlanta GA, June 11th to the 14th Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:50:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Thank you to our 2009 LACFF Sponsors http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1/2009/06/09/thank-you-to-our-2009-lacff-sponsors/ http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1/2009/06/09/thank-you-to-our-2009-lacff-sponsors/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:17:28 +0000 Administrator http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1/?p=72 Sponsors are a crucial part of the Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival, they not only sustain the Festival, but also provide the community at large with the opportunities to view films throughout the year.  This year’s Festival Sponsors include:

Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Washington DC

Latin American and Caribbean Community Center

Malcom X Grassroots Movement

US Human Rights Network

SisterSong

Afrisalsa

Mundo Hispanico

Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights

WRFG 89.3.

]]> http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1/2009/06/09/thank-you-to-our-2009-lacff-sponsors/feed/ 0 Atlanta’s Fourth Annual Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival Presents Films From 15 Countries in June http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1/2009/05/26/atlanta%e2%80%99s-fourth-annual-latin-american-and-caribbean-film-festival-presents-films-from-15-countries-in-june/ http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1/2009/05/26/atlanta%e2%80%99s-fourth-annual-latin-american-and-caribbean-film-festival-presents-films-from-15-countries-in-june/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 17:10:19 +0000 Administrator http://lacfilmfest.org/blog1/?p=5 LACFFFAtlanta – Organizers today announced the final program of the fourth annual Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival. From Thursday, June 11, through Sunday, June 14, 2009, nineteen recent films from across the Americas and the Caribbean will be screened at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, 101 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30303.

The documentaries and dramas to be screened at the Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival feature the themes of culture and the arts, labor and immigration, grassroots media, and the spirit of resistance around the hemisphere. Highlights include Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (Corrugated Films), about the power of community radio in popular struggles in Oaxaca, Mexico; Morristown: In the Air and Sun (Anne Lewis) about industrial decline and immigrant workers in Morristown, Tennessee; Rap de Saia (Janai Na Oliveira), about young women rappers in Brazil; The Price of Sugar (Bill Haney) about the plight of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic; Soy Andina (Mitch Teplitsky), about a New York dancer’s search for her Peruvian cultural roots; and Play Jankanù, Play (Oliver Green), about the culture of the Garifuna people in Belize. All films produced in Spanish, Portuguese, Kreyol, and indigenous languages are subtitled for English-speaking audience members. For more information and the screening schedule, see www.lacfilmfest.org.
Each day of the festival a panel discussion will illuminate issues raised by the films. Invited panelists include film director Oliver Green, International Black Docufest Director Lydia Odenat, and film producer Simone Pierre, to name just a few. For further details, see www.lacfilmfest.org.

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The twofold objective of Atlanta’s Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival is to bring to light through film and video the realities and histories of Latin American and Caribbean countries, with a special emphasis on African-descended and indigenous peoples, and the stories of their diasporic and immigrant communities elsewhere. For more information, please visit www.lacfilmfest.org.

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