Film
Film Screening: Bound by Honor
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm: Reception & Book Signing 6:00 pm: Pre-Film Talk with Jimmy Santiago Baca 7:00 pm: Film Screening Our Summer Film Series kicks off with a 30th anniversary screening of Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out) and special guest Jimmy Santiago Baca. Bound by Honor, an American epic crime drama, directed by Taylor Hackford, has become a cult-classic film within the Mexican-American community. Based on the true-life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on Chicano step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their biracial cousin (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: 150 i una grossa
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities The description of community life is not always easy for cinema, which tends to focus on characters. However, this film bets on making a collective story where the inhabitants of a village will have to make decisions that will radically change their lives. The choral portrait offered by this documentary is testimony to a common thread based on the commitment of a group of people from (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Los saldos
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities The transfer of knowledge between parents and their descendants was the only means by which rural families maintained their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies transformed their habits. Migrations also broke with this logic, although they never dispossessed the inhabitants of this ancestral knowledge. In Los saldos, a father and a son will have to face an evidence that work and coexistence are bringing to (more...)
Film: Acequias: The Legacy Lives On
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 – 7:00 pm: Food Trucks, Live Music & Cash Bar 7:00 – 8:15 pm: Acequias Screening 8:15 pm: Director Q&A following film screening The University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies and the NHCC present Acequias: The Legacy Lives On. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias: The Legacy Lives On is an hour-long, visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, practitioners, lawmakers, journalists, and members of the community. Chapa produces and directs an emotional and reverential (more...)
Film Screening: Boy and the World
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-303:00 pm Brazilian artist Alê Abreu’s Academy Award-nominated masterpiece is a riotous explosion of music and color, a breathtakingly original and vibrant cinematic experience that depicts the wonders and struggles of the modern world as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity as his small world expands. Entering (more...)
Film Screening: El Cantante
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Food Truck (T's Tynie Kitchen) 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live DJ Pancho Quinones & Pedro Turon | Salsa Dancing with Jessica Montoya 7:00 pm: Film Screening Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe (Marc Anthony) emigrates to the United States and becomes a pioneer of salsa music. In New York, he meets Puchi (Jennifer Lopez), who becomes Héctor's loving but fiery wife. Signing with Jerry Masucci's Fania record label, Lavoe teams up with trumpeter Willie Colón (John (more...)
Animal Humane New Mexico: Feline Film Festival 2023
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Pet Adoptions 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm VIP Reception 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm Film Screening 7:45 pm to 8:00 pm Film Awards/Winner Celebration Your mission if you choose to accept it... Join us for the epic return of Animal Humane's Feline Film Festival! Hosted by the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and sponsored by Garcia Subaru, this cat-tastic event will feature an incredible collection of cat-inspired cinema from around the world, food trucks, pet adoptions & MORE. Only the film screening & VIP event (more...)
Film Screening: The Motorcycle Diaries
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Food Trucks | Cash Bar | Pop Fizz | Motorcycle Show (ends 6:00 pm) 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Live Capoeira Performance 6:30 pm: Pre-Film Talk 7:00 pm: The Motorcycle Diaries Screening On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With this award-winning short film, Mel Arranz has managed to place himself within the interesting panorama of animation made in the Basque Country. His piece, colored in various shades of black and white, began to take shape during his artistic stay in Mexico and is a visual experiment: his short film manages to demonstrate a bodily intimacy through the detail shots of the touching of skins, hardly (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With a captivating work drawing on a black and white photographic image, director Adrian Garcia Gomez delves into memory to orient his imagination regarding identity and the past in the environment of the western and Mexican cinema of the 1940's and 50's. This short film follows its predecessor Mikveh (2016), and shares that film's sensitive attunement regarding its formality and concerns, which the Californian creator will continue (more...)