Film
Power of Our Stories: Unseen & Singing Our Way to Freedom
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM2nd Annual Film Symposium 4:30 pm Screening Unseen 6:00 pm Dinner Break 7:00 pm Screening Singing Our Way to Freedom 8:30-9:30 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Set Hernandez & Paul Espinosa NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event. Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job in his field, and support his family. As he finally (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Los Bilbao
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here: Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo The young director Pedro Speroni debuted in feature-length documentaries with Rancho (2021), where he already demonstrated his sensitivity in approaching the very delicate reality of people who are incarcerated. The personal relationship he established with Iván, a prison inmate, in that first film allowed the filmmaker to accompany him on his life journey after leaving prison and reuniting with his family and his life. Currently, (more...)
Power of Our Stories: Salt of the Earth (1954), Chuy Martinez & Jesus Quinones
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM2nd Annual Film Symposium 2:00 pm: Doors open 2:30 pm: Screening- Salt of the Earth (1954) Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Chuy Martinez & Jesus Quinones & Special Guests Free Community Event. At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas), with a similar unfairness. When an injunction (more...)
2024 AfroMundo Festival: Historic Rebel Women
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM3:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. 2024 AfroMundo Festival: Historic Rebel Women. Screening of Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess. Directed by Roy T Anderson, 2015, 59 min This film documents the military genius of Nanny of Jamaica, one of the most successful yet least recognized heroines of slave rebellions. The screening is followed by a panel discussion of (more...)
2024 AfroMundo Festival: Black Farmers: Modern Maroons (Sold Out)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NMNOTE: This event is sold out. Tickets will be released on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 7:10 pm. 7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. Screening of Documentary Farming While Black Directed by Mark Decena, 2023, 75 min Farming While Black examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their (more...)
2024 AfroMundo Festival: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NMNOTE: A limited number of tickets are available for this event. 7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity: For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, of cultural retention, and innovation. Come join in this culinary discussion with Angelica Mena: Afro-Columbian Chef and Founder of San Francisco’s Sukulentas; (more...)
2024 AfroMundo Festival: World Premier: Sterling’s Silver
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NMNOTE: A limited number of tickets are available for this event. 7:00 pm 2024 AfroMundo Festival Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA April 12 - 20, 2024 Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. An enhanced Reader’s Production of a play by Karen Jones Meadows. “In the 1800s a 150-year plan fueled by war, vision, passion, naïveté, rage, secrets, entrepreneurship, and African-American sweat, fashion a clandestine community determined to leave a living legacy of sovereignty (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Light Falls Vertical
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here: Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo Efthymia Zymvragaki receives a proposal from a man who confesses to abuse in order to investigate the vision of the perpetrator of violence. With the courage to tell a story in the first person, the debut feature of this Greek director addresses the issue of violence that weighs so heavily in today's society with the intention of approaching it in a complex and intimate way. Synopsis: A (more...)
Film: The Human Zoo (Calafate, zoológicos humanos)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 pm Reception & Cash Bar 6:00 pm Doors 6:30 pm Director’s talk 7:00 pm Screening Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Toward the end of the 19th century, 25 people from four different Chilean indigenous groups were kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by a German businessman and taken to Europe to be exhibited as attractions in cities throughout the continent. THE HUMAN ZOO uncovers the history of this colonial spectacle, and follows the fallout into the present. (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: Querida Sara
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here: Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo The relationship between Patricia Franquesa, the director of this documentary, and Sara, the first cab driver in Afghanistan, is proposed to us as a story of friendship whose thread is united by the gaze in front of the camera, where we stand as spectators, but to which the protagonist of the documentary constantly speaks. All the material filmed in front of this strong and confident woman, who (more...)