NUEVO PROGRAMMA ESPANOL-INGLES EN TRIANGLE, STRATOS AND SKY TVA PARTIR DEL 12 JUNIO .
Los invitamos a disfrutar este nuevo programa de television llamado LA BUENA VIDA producido por Franklin Silva y su equipo de produccion.
Sera un programa interesante donde se retratara la vida de nuestra comunidad y la contribucion que los Latinoamericanos hacen en este pais.
We invite you to celebrate the Latinamerican community through a new television programe in Triangle, Statos and Sky TV.
THE GOOD LIFE LA BUENA VIDA
The programe will be launched on Friday June 12th at 8pm
programa en espanol-Ingles
LA BUENA VIDA-THE GOOD LIFE
TRIANGLE TV: 12 DE JUNIO 8 PM.....ES UN VIERNES.
STRATOS TV: 12 DE JUNIO 8:30 PM.
SKY TELEVISION 89: 12 DE JUNIO 8:30 PM
Triangle-Stratos-Wellington Television, New Zealand
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Something to keep in mind
Hey guys,
Due to copyright reasons, we just want to let you guys know that we have been explicitly warned by the AV Library subject librarian that AV Library films are only to audience's of University of Auckland students. LAIFS is a student group and advertising and spreading of the word is to be done ONLY to University of Auckland students and staff.
Sorry to be such hard arses about this, but they are really cracking down this year. Your enthusiasm is very much appreciated, but please keep this in mind when publicising the group.
Thanks for your cooperation with this.
See you soon,
Sarah, Amy and Fiona
Due to copyright reasons, we just want to let you guys know that we have been explicitly warned by the AV Library subject librarian that AV Library films are only to audience's of University of Auckland students. LAIFS is a student group and advertising and spreading of the word is to be done ONLY to University of Auckland students and staff.
Sorry to be such hard arses about this, but they are really cracking down this year. Your enthusiasm is very much appreciated, but please keep this in mind when publicising the group.
Thanks for your cooperation with this.
See you soon,
Sarah, Amy and Fiona
Lucio (27/5/09): Some more info
Latin American and Iberian Film Society (LAIFS) film screening
Wedesday the 27th of May at 6.00 in Arts 2, Room 519 (Level 5, 18 Symonds St, on the Corner of Symonds St and Grafton Rd). Please come along and bring a dollar membership fee if you wish to join the Society and haven't already. For any questions or inquiries please write to Sarah (sste072@aucklanduni.ac.nz).This week we will be watching:
LUCIO 2007 Spain (Documentary)
Running time 93 minutes
DIRECTORS: Aitor Arregi, José María Goenaga
PRODUCER: Xabier Berzosa
PRODUCER: Xabier Berzosa
Meet Lucio Uturbia — anarchist, bank robber, forger, fugitive, and above all, a bricklayer. Lucio’s life is the stuff of legend.
As an activist in 1950’s Paris, he counted André Breton and Albert Camus amongst his friends, worked with anarchist guerrilla Francisco Sabate to bring down Franco’s fascist regime and carried out numerous bank robberies to fund the struggle to free Spain. In 1977, he successfully forged US$ 20 million dollars of Citibank travellers cheques to fund guerrilla groups in Latin America, bringing the bank to its knees in the process. His motivation was not his own gain, but to dent confidence in this powerful financial institution. Lucio was arrested for this and ended up in prison, but soon got back on his feet.
He also helped organise the kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie from his hideout in Bolivia, aided the escape of Black Panthers from the US and not surprisingly was targeted by the CIA.
The story of how this bricklayer with a skill for forgery brought down powerful institutions without resorting to violence is riveting. His sensibility is pure and enchanting: fight power altruistically without ever aspiring to hold power.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
COCALERO
Latin American and Iberian Film Society (LAIFS) film screening Wedesday the 20th of May at 6.00pm, but mate rituals will begin around 5.30 (5.00 if your name is Leandro) in Arts 2, Room 519 (Level 5, 18 Symonds St, on the Corner of Symonds St and Grafton Rd). Please come along and bring a dollar membership fee if you wish to join the Society and haven't already. For any questions or inquiries please write to Sarah (sste072@aucklanduni.ac.nz).
This week we will be watching:
COCALERO 2006 Bolivia (Documentary)
An Aymara Indian coca leaf grower named Evo Morales (a figure Washington has branded a narcoterrorist) travels through the Andes and Amazon in jeans and sneakers, leading a historic bid to become Bolivia’s first indigenous president. The filmmakers capture the intimate moments of Morales’ rise to power.
Running time 94 minutes
DIRECTOR: Alejandro Landes
PRODUCERS: Julia Solomonoff, Alejandro Landes.
SITE: http://cocalerofilm.com/home.
See you there!
Sarah
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Our Road to El Dorado
Last Wednesday's screening was great. But I must confess, from the beginning of the film I was struggling to keep the water inside my eyes from trickling down my cheeks.
My experience from living in NZ is that people here have a constant feel (even though they try to hide it) of superiority towards people from the developing world. I would go as far as saying that this would be the main reason why NZ wants to remain recognised as a western nation as opposed to a pacific one. "We, the western world have got it right, therefore we must guide you". This feeling I have has been reinforced after I worked for an NGO who's got strict guidelines about the images it wants associated with them. For instance, the film I've made for them won't be promoted because it does not fit into the structure that exploits non-western people's misery. I, jokingly said to my colleague, our film would have been seen by thousands if we showed an African boy, with no shoes and clothing, running around the dessert looking for a drink of water.
El Camino de San Diego deeply shows the adversities which the people of El Dorado have to struggles with on a daily basis, but Dir. Sorin never takes away their dignity and that is why I think this film is so good. It tells the moving story of man's treasure and his enduring journey towards a selfless deed. Our hero (Tati Benitez) will give away his most precious possession to his idol (Diego Armando Maradona) and wont even seek recognition.
And as we follow Tati on his trip to Buenos Aires we subtly learn about Argentina and its economic flaws. For instance, 150,000 Brazilian chickens are entering Argentina by truck; clashing, on a road block, with the local producers. And who wins? The huge Lula-look-alike, Brazilian truck driver.
Anyway, those tears I had at the beginning of the film remained locked inside my eyes, El Camino de San Diego is too funny for anyone to cry. And it subliminally shows what are the treasures that are hidden in the legendary town of El Dorado: its people.
El signatario:
Julio Marx Panoff
My experience from living in NZ is that people here have a constant feel (even though they try to hide it) of superiority towards people from the developing world. I would go as far as saying that this would be the main reason why NZ wants to remain recognised as a western nation as opposed to a pacific one. "We, the western world have got it right, therefore we must guide you". This feeling I have has been reinforced after I worked for an NGO who's got strict guidelines about the images it wants associated with them. For instance, the film I've made for them won't be promoted because it does not fit into the structure that exploits non-western people's misery. I, jokingly said to my colleague, our film would have been seen by thousands if we showed an African boy, with no shoes and clothing, running around the dessert looking for a drink of water.
El Camino de San Diego deeply shows the adversities which the people of El Dorado have to struggles with on a daily basis, but Dir. Sorin never takes away their dignity and that is why I think this film is so good. It tells the moving story of man's treasure and his enduring journey towards a selfless deed. Our hero (Tati Benitez) will give away his most precious possession to his idol (Diego Armando Maradona) and wont even seek recognition.
And as we follow Tati on his trip to Buenos Aires we subtly learn about Argentina and its economic flaws. For instance, 150,000 Brazilian chickens are entering Argentina by truck; clashing, on a road block, with the local producers. And who wins? The huge Lula-look-alike, Brazilian truck driver.
Anyway, those tears I had at the beginning of the film remained locked inside my eyes, El Camino de San Diego is too funny for anyone to cry. And it subliminally shows what are the treasures that are hidden in the legendary town of El Dorado: its people.
El signatario:
Julio Marx Panoff
Monday, May 11, 2009
This week we will be watching:
El Camino de San Diego (The Road to San Diego) 2006 Argentina (Comedy)
Running time 98 minutes
DIRECTOR: Carlos Sorin
CAST: Ignacio Benítez, Carlos Wagner
PRODUCERS: Oscar Kramer, Hugo Sigman, Carlos Sorín
AWARDS: San Sebastián International Film Festival 2006, Havana Film
Festival 2006
SITE: http://www.elcaminodesandiego.com/
See you there!
A young Argentine learns that soccer star Diego Maradona is ailing in
a Buenos Aires hospital, and resolves to bring him a tree root he's
discovered.
a Buenos Aires hospital, and resolves to bring him a tree root he's
discovered.
Running time 98 minutes
DIRECTOR: Carlos Sorin
CAST: Ignacio Benítez, Carlos Wagner
PRODUCERS: Oscar Kramer, Hugo Sigman, Carlos Sorín
AWARDS: San Sebastián International Film Festival 2006, Havana Film
Festival 2006
SITE: http://www.elcaminodesandiego.
See you there!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
May is outlaw month for the Latin American and Iberian Film Society (LAIFS)
It's round the world I've travelled;
it's round the world I've roamed;
but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home.
-Woody Guthrie
it's round the world I've roamed;
but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home.
-Woody Guthrie
The outlaw in many popular representations is the champion of the people. When the law only seems to favour the rich, the figure outside the law steps in to assert popular rights. In countries where the state has used the law for oppression, the popular hero who takes social justice into his or her own hands becomes increasingly attractive. This month we will be exploring the figure of the outlaw in Latin American and Iberian film and culture. Who are these men and women? What makes them so dangerous? How do they become the obsession of nations?
This week’s screening:http://i4.photobucket.com/
Wednesday the 6th of May at 6:00pm (note the change in time) in Arts 2, Room 519 (Level 5, 18 Symonds St, on the Corner of Symonds St and Grafton Rd). Please come along and bring a dollar membership fee if you wish to join the Society if you haven't already. For any questions or inqui- ries please write to Sarah (sste072@aucklanduni.ac.nz).
Lampião - 2006 Brazil (Documentary)
Documentary about the life, death and legacy of Lampião, the most famous leader of the Cangaço band of outlaws who were loved and hated through the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920s and 1930s.
Running time 60 minutes
Hope to see you there!
Sarah
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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