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This year, the Cine Gay Showcase returns to the big screen with more diversity than its previous two incarnations. The universal theme of acceptance covers films throughout the presentation.
“Throughout the past fifteen years, the festival has always embraced diversity in independent film, which certainly included LGBT Films, but the continued success of the Cine Gay Showcase really put a face on the community and how it thrives in cultures as diverse as those found in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the US, “ said Cine Gay Curator Patric Stillman. “It was equally exciting to see the showcase bring about dialogue between members of the greater Latino Community both straight and gay. It was profound.”
Mirroring the larger festival, this program gets to present some amazing talent to San Diego audiences. This year, the festival will introduce audiences to one of Mexico’s greatest directors Arturo Ripstein (El Lugar Sin Limites & El Carnival de Sodom) and one of Spain's rising directors Eusebio “Use” Pastrana (Spinnin’).
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Special thanks to our Cine Gay Community Partners:
Bacchus House
Diversionary Theater
El Nuevo Latino Link/
Que Pasa San Diego
FilmOut San Diego
Greater San Diego Business Association
LGBT Community Center
CELEBRATE CINE GAY ALL WEEK LONG
In honor of our anniversary, our Community Partner Bacchus House are allowing audience members of the festival to celebrate at their club with “no cover” during the festival run for anyone with a film stub from our screenings at UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center. Check out why Latino nights at Bacchus House continue to bring the community together!
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This year, we have FOUR POWERHOUSE FEATURE FILMS - if you see only four films this year, these are serious contenders!
XXY - Lucia Puenzo (Drama from Argentina)
8:30 PM - Saturday, March 15
1:30 PM - Sunday, March 16
Argentina is the festival's focus country for this year's film festival and we have an astonishing, critically acclaimed feature that explores the painful search for gender identity of a teenage who is born a hermaphrodite, and upon entering adolescence and is pressured by parents to "choose" an identity. Handled with great sensitivity, this extraordinary film has won film accolades all over the world, including coveted awards at last year's Cannes Film festival. Argentina's Official Selection for 2008 Oscars. Stars acclaimed actor, Ricardo Darin. Presented in Spanish with English Sub-titles.
Itty Bitty Titty Committee – Jamie Babbit (Dark Comedy from the US)
8:30 PM - Saturday, March 8
9:45 PM - Thursday, March 13
10:30 PM - Friday, March 14
But I'm A Cheerleader and D.E.B.S. Director Jamie Babbit returns with a romantic comedy with an edge; a lesbian rock and roll romp. Rising Latina star Melonie Diaz (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) stars as a young, shy all-American girl in search of herself as she pursues the woman of her dreams, a politically radical feminist. This non-profit female powered film was nominated for a Teddy Award in Berlinale, and grabbed the Jury Prize for Best Feature before tearing up countless gay and lesbian film festival audiences around the globe with its intelligent humor and punk rock sass. Also starring Guinevere Turner (Go Fish), Daniela Sea (The L Word), and Leslie Grossman (Running With Scissors). Presented in English.
Spinnin' (Indie Film from Spain)
Co-presented by FilmOut San Diego
10:30 PM - Friday, March 7
8:30 PM - Thursday, March 13 * CENTERPIECE FILM - Special Performance *
9:45 PM - Sunday, March 16
An audience favorite throughout Spain's film festival circuit and most recently Australia's Marti Gras, this art house film is a first from Spain as it positively explores a modern gay couple's thoughts on having a child together. The film's universal themes of family and love are humorously celebrated as the audience is treated to 101 kisses as this entirely independent film spins its unique inter-related stories. Presented in Spanish with English Sub-titles.
Combo Film and Gala Tickets may be purchased for Centerpiece Screening
* Note: Join us again on April 12 t the Ken Theater when we will co-sponsor the films Boystown (Spain) along with the short Something Like That (Brazil) at the 10th edition of FilmOut San Diego
El Luga Sin Limites/ Hell Has No Limits – Arturo Ripstein (A historic film that you probably never saw from Mexico - 1978)
6:30 PM - Sunday, March 16 - One Screening Only
Director Arturo Ripstein brings to San Diego his 1978 classic groundbreaking classic Mexican film based on the international best selling novel by Chilean José Donoso about an aging transvestite who lives in a brothel run by his daughter. The film's frank dealing with homosexuality was decades ahead of its time. A bittersweet dissection of machismo and homophobia in Latin America, Arturo Ripstein won the Golden Ariel Award from the Academy Awards of Mexico, with Roberto Cobo receiving the Silver Ariel for Best Actor for his portrayal of La Manuela. Presented in Spanish with English Sub-titles.
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LGBT SHORT FILMS - Bringing the whole community together!
3:00 PM - Sunday, March 9
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Please take note that all shorts will be presented in Spanish with English Sub-titles except for Historia de Amor con Final Anunciado, which will be screened last.
Cowboy Forever (Brazil / France)
Director Jean-Baptiste Erreca takes us on a journey through the southern dense forests of Brazil with two real world young, handsome gauchos (cowboys) as they explore the meaning of friendship and tolerance.
Les Travestis Pleurent Aussi (Ecuador/ France)
U.S. PREMIERE Director Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva looks at the life of Ecuadorian, Latin transexual immigrants working as prostitutes in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. An honest, forthright documentary that captivated audiences at the recent Havana Film Festival!
Historia de Amor con Final Anunciado (Nicaragua)
A personal look at Gay life in Nicaraguay. This sweet film takes on added importance as Nicaraguay's Gay and Lesbian community celebrate the repeal of anti-gay laws this month (March 2007) for the first time in that country's long history of persecution of its LGBT community. Presented in Spanish with no subtitles.
Also screening EDDIE (US), FLORES EN EL PARQUE (SPAIN) and MILONGA GAY (ARGENTINA)
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The 15th Anniversary San Diego Latino Film Festival also includes special guests and other films with LGBT connections that may be of interest to members of the community, including:
Meet Actor Lázaro Ramos
Besides having a huge fan base in his home country of Brazil, he is considered the best actor of his generation appearing on stage, television and film. Internationally, he is probably most remembered for his 2003 performance of notorious gay performer and transvestite in the bio/pic Madame Satã though he has over 12 Best Actor Awards under his belt for his performance in a mere 25 films. Last Fall, San Diego Latino Film festival brought his film Lower City to San Diego.
Onde Andara Dulce Veiga (Brazil)
9:45 PM - Sunday, March 9
8:30 PM - Wednesday, March 12
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE - Based on the international bestselling mystery by Caio Fernando Abreu. A journalist is haunted by images of a beautiful singer/actress who mysteriously disappeared years ago and becomes obsessed with her daughter, a rising punk rock celebrity. A stunning "neon-realistic" film by the internationally awarded director Guilherme de Almeida Prado. Expect odd appearances of glamorous movie stars, punker Lesbians, and an occasional man in a bad wig in this modern noir. Presented in Portuguse with English Sub-titles.
Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo (Mexico)
10:00 PM - Saturday, March 8 * A late night thriller
Supernatural events frighten the residents of an all-girls' psychiatric hospital in this modern re-imagination of a 1968 Mexican classic horror film starring Martha Higareda and Danny Perea (Duck Season). For fans of the original film, look for Alicia Bonet, the heroine of the original film, and now playing the role of the main character's Mother. Presented in Spanish with English Sub-titles.
La Nave de los Monstruos (Ship of Monsters) and
El Planeta de las mujeres invasoras (Planet of the Women Invaders)
8:00 PM - Friday, March 7: TRIBUTE SCREENING to Lorena Velazquez - IN PERSON w/ "EL Planeta"
10:00 PM - Saturday, March 15 - "Ship"
RESTORED CAMP SCI-FI CLASSICS - In an effort to restore fading classics from Mexican Cinema, two 50/60's cult Sci-Fi classics have been restored to glorious black and white. Both films star Lorena Velazquez, who reigned as the quintessential vamp of B Movies for nearly three decades. Think Zsa Zsa Gabor in Queen of Outer Space and you'll quickly get the mood of these bathing-suit clad women-as-aliens films; complete with ridiculous looking monsters, singing cowboys, evil queens bent on taking over the Earth, and of course, a love story to set things right. Both films are great fun. Meet Lorena Valezquez at the screening of El Planeta when the festival will honor her body of work! Presented in Spanish with English Sub-titles.
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San Diego Latino Film Festival 2008 is presented by State Farm Insurance.
Sponsors for San Diego Latino Film Festival '08 include Bank of America, State Farm Insurance, AT&T, City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture, National Endowment for the Arts, County of San Diego, Nickelodeon, Macy's, MTS, Coke Cola Bottling Co. of Southern California, Sauza Tequila, CVS Pharmacies, Latino Public Broadcasting, California State University San Marcos, Exy Chic Greek Restaurant, Univision KBNT, Telemundo 33, Uniradio Group (Pulsar, La Invasora), Riviera Magazine, El Latino Newspaper, El Mexicano, El Sol de San Diego, San Diego Union-Tribune, Nostika Magazine, Enlace, Magic 92.5, Radio Latina, Brazilian Pacific Times, NBC 7/39, Mi San Diego, and Azteca America San Diego.
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