Film
Family Film: Selena (1997)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Celebrate the life of the talented and beloved Tejana singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in this biopic featuring Jennifer Lopez and Edward James Olmos. Recommended for ages 10 and up. Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas.
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque: Film Series: El astronauta
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné Javier Aguirre El astronauta takes place in a village in southern Spain, a group of friends awaits the arrival of man on the moon, broadcast by the bar's television set. One of the parishioners warns (more...)
Film Screening: Free CeCe (2018)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Afro Mundo & the NHCC present Free CeCe. This film confronts the culture of violence surrounding trans women of color. It is told through the voices of Laverne Cox and CeCe McDonald. On her way to the store with a group of friends, Chrishaun Reed "CeCe" McDonald was brutally attacked. While defending her life, a man was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a men's prison in Minnesota. An international campaign to free CeCe garnered significant support from media and activists, including (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque Film Series: La grieta
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné A NATO mission dives to a crevice 15,000 meters deep where an experiment seems to have caused strange mutations in the creatures that inhabit it and where a submarine has been lost, which the latter (more...)
Pláticas Para Cambio: Virtual Film Panel
Virtual5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Please join us for a virtual panel discussion with Hispanic, LatinX, Chicana & Indigenous filmmakers regarding representation in the film industry. A 2-hour dialog with leading cultural producers, academics & media artists explores how storytelling and representation shape our cultural identity, career opportunities, and societal perceptions. We examine the transformative power of authentic stories to create new narratives, increase access, and build deeper understanding and connection with Jaelyn DeMaria, Marcella Ernst, Alex Ontiveros, Aubrey Trujillo and moderated by shiloh burton, NHCC Film (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: La Chana
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo La Chana reveals the story of a mythical dancer who rose to stardom and then plunged into anonymity. The profound gaze of director Lucija Stojevic - who has recently returned to portraiture with her documentary Pepi Fandango (2023) - follows her protagonist to understand how the artistic vocation of a woman like her could survive and be recreated throughout her life. Synopsis: A self-taught dancer, (more...)
Power of Our Stories: In the Pit & Chicano Movement Music
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM2nd Annual Film Symposium 5:00 pm Food Trucks (Cubish) & Cash Bar 6:00 pm Chuy Martinez Songs of the Chicano Movement 7:00 pm Screening Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Chuy Martinez & shiloh burton, NHCC Film Coordinator NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event. Please register below. Using state of the art digital filmmaking, "gorgeous time lapse sequences" (NY Newsday), and a "terrific soundtrack" (Time Out) made of a "magical montage of found sounds" (Chicago Sun-Times), Juan Carlos Rulfo's In the Pit (more...)
Power of Our Stories: Building the American Dream & Campesinos: America’s Unsung Heroes
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM2nd Annual Film Symposium 2:00 pm Screening Building the American Dream 3:30 pm Screening Campesinos: America’s Unsung Heroes 4:00 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Chealse Hernandez, Alex Ontiveros & shiloh burton NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event Across Texas, an unstoppable construction boom drives urban sprawl and luxury high-rises. Its dirty secret: abuse of immigrant labor. BUILDING THE AMERICAN DREAM captures a turning point as a movement forms to fight widespread construction industry injustices. Grieving their son, a Mexican family campaigns for (more...)
Power of Our Stories: Crow County: Our Right to Food Sovereignty, Adios Amor, & Mayors of Shiprock
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM2nd Annual Film Symposium 6:00 pm Doors 6:30 pm Screening Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty 7:00 pm Screening Adios Amor 8:00 pm Screening The Mayors of Shiprock 9:00 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A to immediately follow with Ramona Emerson, Laurie Coyle, Tsanavi Spoonhunter NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Free community event. Crow country: Our Right To Food Sovereignty is a 20-minute documentary that enlightens its audience to one tribe’s struggle to retain food security. The Crow Indian Reservation is the largest reservation in Montana, encompassing 2.2 million (more...)
Power Of Our Stories: Lupe Under the Sun & Team Meryland
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM2nd Annual Film Symposium 12:30 pm: Doors open 1:00pm: Screening- Lupe Under the Sun 2:30 pm: Screening- Team Meryland 3:15 pm: Panel Discussion and Q&A to immediately follow with Gabriel Gaurano and Rodrigo Reyes moderated by Deborah Blanche as Emma Tenayuca Free Community Event. Lupe Under the Sun is a neorealist film following an aging migrant worker living in California, who longs to return to Mexico before it is too late. Featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors, real farmworkers and authentic locations, Lupe Under the Sun tackles (more...)