10 am (screenings at 11 am & 2 pm) Free screenings of the documentary film Willie Velasquez Your Vote Is Your Voice and voter registration drive, presented in partnership with New Mexico PBS. The film introduces viewers to the man who led the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project and launched 1,000 voter registration drives […]
7 pm This British-American film is based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 novel of the same name, parodying Jane Austin’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. In 19th century England, the five Bennet sisters, all trained in weaponry and martial arts, must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies. […]
7 pm A gang of thieves on the run from Madrid after the robbery of a pawn shop stop to rest in the border village of Zugarramurdi, inhabited and controlled by witches, and find themselves the guests of a family who are preparing for an ancient ritual. The visually inventive film builds toward a jaw-dropping […]
7 pm Since pre-Hispanic times, death has played a fundamental role in Zapotec life. The traditional celebration of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, in the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico focuses on the importance of family and extended family relations. The celebration includes family-based observances and altars, and […]
7 pm The celebration of Todos Santos in Candelaria, a small farming and weaving community in the southern Andes of Bolivia, is the Yampara culture’s version of Day of the Dead, when the souls of the deceased return to visit their families and partake of the feast celebrated in their honor. Todos Santos serves specific […]
7 pm With the rallying cry of “su voto es su voz” (“your vote is your voice”), Mexican American activist Willie Velasquez launched a grassroots movement that changed the nation’s political landscape forever. Through the nonpartisan Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (SVREP), Velasquez launched over a thousand voter registration drives in 200 cities, creating […]
7 pm A musical drama film based on Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical of the same name, Evita follows the life of Eva Perón, from her humble beginnings through her rise to fame, political career, and death at the age of 33. A B-picture actress, Eva Duarte eventually became the wife of […]
7 pm Drawn from the real-life journals of two young Argentines, Alberto Granado and Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, Diarios de Motocicleta traces their eight-month, 8,000-mile road trip across South America in 1952. What begins as a lark turns into a profound journey of discovery, as their aging motorcycle carries the two farther and […]
7 pm In a small Spanish town, an impoverished truck driver, in danger of having his vehicle repossessed, becomes involved in an annual Christmas charity drive that opens his eyes to the problems of others. Plácido takes a satirical look at charity from the head—the cold, calculated kind—as compared to charity from the heart. Directed […]
7 pm The Wisdom Archive presents the world premieres of Monica Sosaya, Maestra de Tradición and Una Tarde Íntima de Música con Antonia Apodaca y Cipriano Vigil. The screening will also include Monica Sosaya: The Colcha Lesson and an excerpt from a work-in-progress, Cipriano Vigil: Cantautor de la Gente. A new Santa Fe based 501(c)(3) non-profit, The Wisdom Archive is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of […]
