3rd Annual
Cine Nepantla
The concept of Nepantla refers to the experience of living in-between two or more cultures. Nepantla originated in the sixteenth century from Nahuatl, an Uto-Aztecan language, to describe the “in-between-ness” Mexicas (Aztecs) felt under Spanish colonization. The concept was further developed by Chicana theorists, most notably Gloria Anzaldúa who described Nepantla as a site of transformation where multiple and different perspectives come into contact. According to Anzaldúa, it is through the exchange of ideas, tenets, and identities that actual change in the world has the potential to occur. Building from this concept, Cine Nepantla aims to create a space in which meaningful dialogue among audiences of different socio-economic backgrounds, races, ethnicities, ages, abilities, genders, sexualities, nationalities, and religions can take place and effect change.
Ceniza Negra
September 22-26, 2022
Ceniza Negra
Director: Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Year: 2019
Country: Costa Rica
Duration: 1hr 20mins
Cenizas Negras premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and led the way for a whole community of female-directed Costa Rican films that are now taking the world by storm.
Cenizas Negras will be available for streaming September 22-26, 2022
About the film
Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles (LACLA) is pleased to present the next edition of Cine Nepantla featuring a virtual screening of the Costa Rican film Cenizas Negras. Cenizas Negras is a heartwarming coming-of-age story, written and directed by Sofia Quiros Ubeda and starring an all Afro-Latino cast, with breakthrough performances by Smashleen Gutierrez, Humberto Samuels and Hortensia Smith. The screening is part of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations.
Cine Nepantla showcases young and experimental Latin narratives from Afro-Latino Carribean Cultures in Central America and is curated by Guido Segal, a screenwriter and program manager at LACLA. Segal is best known for his film critiques and screenwriting. Using his talents, L.A based Segal offers his screenwriting prowess through his work as a professor.
For 25 years, the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles (LACLA) has been championing and screening feature and short films by LatinX filmmakers from all over the Americas.
About Cenizas Negras
Selva (13) lives in a coastal town in the Caribbean. After the sudden disappearance of her only motherly figure, she is left to take care of her grandfather who does not want to live. Between shadows and wild games, she must decide if she will help her grandfather die, even though that means going through her last moments of childhood alone. Selva discovers that when we die, we just shed our skin. We can turn into wolves, goats, shadows, or anything as long as your imagination allows it.
Review [Cannes]
https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/land-of-ashes-cannes-review/5139474.article
Review [ Hollywood Reporter]
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/land-ashes-review-1212491/
Review [ Variety]
https://variety.com/2019/film/markets-festivals/land-of-ashes-review-1203226359/
About the Director
Sofía Quirós Ubeda was born in Argentina in 1989 but lived most of her childhood in Costa Rica. In 2011, she directed her first short film, THE OTHER SIDE, which won the award for best documentary at the Argentinian Festival REC. In 2015, her second short, INSIDE LAND, was screened at a number of festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand. Her following short film, SELVA, selected as part of the competition of the 56th Semaine de la Critique. Since then, it was screened in more than 40 cities around the world, receiving awards in Biarritz and Guanajuato, among others.Her latest feature-length LAND OF ASHES (2019) had its world premiere at La Semaine de la Critique.
Register to watch
Register below to watch the film CENIZA NEGRA, followed by an exclusive interview with the writer director Sofía Quirós Ubeda by Guido Segal.
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Date & Time
September 22-26,2022
Meet the LACLA Program Manager
GUIDO SEGAL
Guido Segal
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Segal moved to Los Angeles to pursue his MFA in Screenwriting at UCLA in 2016. He has worked as a journalist and a film critic in Argentina and Spain and was a Jury Member at la Semaine de la Critique during the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Segal worked as a documentary filmmaker for History and Discovery Channel and has considerable experience as an assistant director and screenwriter in Argentine films. He co-wrote the films Leones (2012), and Kékzsakállú (2016), both of which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. He was staffed in three Argentine TV shows: Un año para recordar, La Asombrosa Excursión de Zamba and Siesta Z, which was selected for the Power to the Pixel conference in London. His screenplays have been nominated for two International Emmy awards and have won one Martin Fierro award. Segal has taught Screenwriting and Film Analysis at Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), TAMK University (Tampere, Finland) and UCLA, which selected him as a Telluride Film Festival FilmLab Fellow. In 2019, he was a fellow at the Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today program hosted by Hola Mexico and HBO. His feature films Curupira and Dark Star will premiere internationally in 2022. He is currently the Program Director for the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles (LACLA).
Meet The LACLA Technical Crew
Mariluz Gonzalez Vesper - Public Relations
Melina Rodriguez - Online Programming
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