Film: Hidroalcohólico
2022-07-15 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
In Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Hidroalcohólico, two boys on a blind date discuss the problems, occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, of coming into physical contact with another person. Between comedy and paradox, the short film explores the surreal situations that this new reality has unleashed.
2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Yo soy una niña
2022-07-19 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Richard Zubelzu’s Yo soy una niña documents the reality of transsexuality in childhood, while emphasizing the important role of grandparents and their unconditional love for their grandchildren.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Abriendo ventanas
2022-07-22 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Vicky Calavia’s documentary Abriendo ventanas is a story told in seven voices, in which seven women share their affective, sexual, and gender diversity, as well as the discrimination and violence that they have suffered in their lives.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 30 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: (A) Normal
2022-07-26 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Leo, Juan, David, and Lucio meet in the gym locker room—four people with four different views on issues such as masculinity. Miguel Parra’s (A) Normal demonstrates, through the debates that ensue, that “normality” is as personal as each individual’s particular essence and prejudices.
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 12 minutes; not rated.
Free cummunity event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Better Days
2022-07-29 | Virtual
12:00 pm (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Fran Herrero Ansoleaga’s Better Days presents the testimonies of five people who have fled harassment in their home countries because of their gender identities and have sought asylum in Spain. Before the director’s camera, they share their fears, doubts, and certainties, as well as their belief that “everything gets better.”
2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated.
Free community event

Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political activism helped enact Spain’s same-sex marriage law, has selected seven works that reflect the life stories of people of all ages, and especially those who have had to flee their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Most of the films presented in this cycle, Encuentros diversos: Cortometrajes LGTBIQ+/Diverse Encounters: LGTBIQ+ Short Films, are documentaries; two feature films are directed by recently deceased filmmaker Roberto Pérez Toledo. His prolific career was committed to the theme of the cycle, which serves as a tribute to him. Additionally, the program has the support of Exterior es Diverso, the platform created by LGTBI personnel of the Spanish Foreign Service, as well as their partners and families.

Film: Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile)
2022-08-12 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:30 pm to 6:15 pm – Chilean folkloric music performed live
6:15 pm to 6:45 pm – “Violeta Parra in context” historical presentation by Dr. Carson Morris
7:00 pm – Film Screening
Andrés Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile’s national hero, and interweaving key set pieces from Parra’s life to capture the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities, and passions. Loosely based on Ángel Parra’s memoirs of his mother, the film offers a multi-faceted and lyrical portrayal of an influential figure in world music and complex cultural icon of Chile’s history. Violeta Parra’s revival of Chilean traditional music galvanized a socially and politically committed pan-Latin American folk music movement—“nueva canción“—and became a reference for other Latin American artists committed to their national legacies.
2011; Spanish with English subtitles; 110 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series

Writing Workshop by Emma Pérez: “Emotional Truths: A Queer Chicanx Approach”
2022-09-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
10:00 a.m.
Join us for a writing workshop led by author Emma Pérez: “Emotional Truths: A Queer Chicanx Approach”
You have an idea for a story. How do you begin? What can you use from your own life experiences to tell your story and bring your character to life?
In this workshop, we will experiment with scenes that tap into your emotional truths to write your story. Touching, sincere honesty provides readers with feelings they may link to their own lives even if the story is unfamiliar. Much of Dr. Pérez’s work focuses on queer Chicanx characters who are not represented in fiction, films, and other media. In doing so, she attempts to show love, or greed, or revenge that may resonate for any reader, just as she does when she writes white cis-male characters that she doesn’t embody. By tapping into emotional truths, writers can write stories with a diverse group of characters. In other words, getting to the core of a character is often through a journey of truths that feel real. Let’s have fun while we write a few emotional truths together.
Free community event. Please register here.

Dr. Pérez earned a PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2017, she joined the University of Arizona as a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center and a Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays, and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Pérez’s first novel, Gulf Dreams, was published in 1996 and is considered one of the first Chicanx queer/lesbian novels in print. Her second novel, Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009) earned awards including the Isherwood Writing Grant (2009). Her novel, Electra’s Complex (2015), is a mystery set in a college with a history professor as protagonist. A collection of previously published essays and poems, Queering the Border, is forthcoming in December 2022 and Chronicle of a Shifter is forthcoming in 2023.
Generously supported by: United Way

¡Cine Magnifico! The Last Movie (USA)
2022-09-13 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
5:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.- Film Screening
6:45 p.m. Talk with journalist Fietta Jarque
Dennis Hopper’s second feature film after making his directorial debut with Easy Rider. The Last Movie (1971) was shot in Peru and edited at the artist’s home in Taos (New Mexico).
Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without a Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern. The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman Kansas, remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production – with Kansas as their sacrificial lamb.
1971; 108 min; Color; English, Rated R
Free Community Event
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening.
Among the most storied productions of the New Hollywood Era, Hopper was given carte blanche by Universal for his next directorial feature after the tremendous commercial success of Easy Rider. The writer-director-star took the money and ran – literally – staging The Last Movie in Peru at farthest remove from the Hollywood machine, with an on-screen entourage in tow that included Kris Kristofferson, Julie Adams, Stella Garcia, Peter Fonda, Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil, Russ Tamblyn, Michelle Phillips and director Samuel Fuller.
After the movie, talk with the Peruvian journalist and writer based in Spain, Fietta Jarque, author of the book “Where Dennis Hopper lost his poncho”, which tells the story behind The Last Movie.
Jarque began working in cultural journalism at Oiga magazine and El Observador newspaper. She has lived in Spain since 1984 and in the same year she was hired as editor of the Culture pages of the newspaper El País, where she remained until 2013. She has published the books Entrevista con los ángeles (1995), co-authored with journalist Rosa Rivas; the novel Yo me perdono (1998); and the interview book Cómo piensan los artistas (2015).

¡Cine Magnifico! Canción Sin Nombre (Peru)
2022-09-14 | NM
6:00 p.m.
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
2019; directed by Melina León; Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles; Not Rated
Free Community Event
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening. This film is the first half of a double feature that includes a screening of Pizarro at 8:00 p.m.

¡Cine Magnifico! Pizarro (Colombia)
2022-09-14 | NM
8:00 p.m.
This is a story about the burden of family heritage. It begins when María José, in exile in Barcelona, realizes that – no matter how far she runs – she cannot escape the ghost of her father, Carlos Pizarro, an M-19 commander assassinated on April 26, 1990 after signing a successful peace treaty with the Colombian government. Pizarro is an iconic figure of war and peace in Colombia. Twenty years after his assassination, she returns to her country to understand the causes that led to this murder and to discover a forgotten chapter of the country’s history, silenced by violence and fear.
2016; directed by Simón Hernández; 82 minutes; Not Rated
Free Community Event
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening. This film is the second half of a double feature that also includes Canción Sin Nombre (Song Without A Name) at 6:00 p.m.

¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
2022-09-21 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Single mother Hanna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster, and how to picture war through fiction. For Hanna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
2020; Written and Directed by Iryna Tsilyk; 74 min; Russian, Ukrainian with English subtitles, not rated
Free community event. Please register in advance here:

¡Globalquerque!: Free Global Headphone Dance Party + Concert
2022-09-22 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm gates open
¡Globalquerque!’s Free Opening Headphone Dance Party + Concert kicks off the weekend and this year will feature New Mexico DJs spinning global grooves and a special LIVE performance by México City’s Son Rompe Pera.
¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s 18th Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture is one of the premiere festivals in the Southwest and is recognized around the country and the world for its adventurous programming. ¡Globalquerque! is committed to presenting and exploring our world through music and the arts, bringing people together to reflect on our similarities, celebrate our differences and consider and revel in what makes our experiences unique and what makes them shared.The Festival offers an eclectic, wide-ranging global exploration with a diverse program of dance, film, crafts, food, educational workshops and activities – and, of course, a myriad of exciting and surprising live musical offerings! From the legendary to up-and-coming, from the traditional to the cutting edge, year to year,¡Globaquerque! presents of the best of what our planet has to offer.
Free Community Event
Reserve your free tickets HERE

¡Globalquerque!: Free Global Fiesta
2022-09-24 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:00 am to 3:30 pm
Join us for a fun-filled international journey packed with educational workshops, inter-activities, film, panels, food demos, performances, and much more – with offerings for all ages! – created in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Department of Education! There will be interactive art activities inspired by the music and global cultures visiting the festival to multilingual poetry readings to International Dance Lessons to the NY International Children’s Film Festival Viva Kids Flicks to International Food Demo & Tasting to a presentation on New Mexican History Through New Mexican Traditional Music to workshops from visiting artists from Haiti, Israel, Taos Pueblo, and Malawi and so much more! The ¡Globalquerque! Free Gobal Fiesta is a day filled with exploration and discovery for all ages!
This community event is free, but ticketed.
Please register in advance HERE.

¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s 18th Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture is one of the premiere festivals in the Southwest and is recognized around the country and the world for its adventurous programming. ¡Globalquerque! is committed to presenting and exploring our world through music and the arts, bringing people together to reflect on our similarities, celebrate our differences and consider and revel in what makes our experiences unique and what makes them shared. The Festival offers an eclectic, wide-ranging global exploration with a diverse program of dance, film, crafts, food, educational workshops and activities – and, of course, a myriad of exciting and surprising live musical offerings! From the legendary to up-and-coming, from the traditional to the cutting edge, year to year, ¡Globaquerque! presents of the best of what our planet has to offer.

¡Cine Magnifico! & ¡Globalquerque!: ¡NYICFF Kid Flicks!
2022-09-24 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
11:00 a.m.
¡NYICFF Kid Flicks! celebrates the best Spanish-language short films from around the globe. This program includes seven short films for children.
Free Community Event
Presented as part of the free ¡Globalquerque! Global Fiesta and International Cinema Series
Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening.

11:40 (Argentina)
When Damián gets a watch for his birthday, he and his little brother Matias can’t stop checking it, anxiously waiting for 11:40 to arrive.
2018; Live Action, directed by Claudia Ruiz; 12 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
3pies (3feet) (Colombia)
Get your (soccer) kicks on the way to school with Gonzalo as he hilariously tries his very best to keep things clean and stay in the game.
2018; Live Action, directed by Giselle Geney; 14 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Ailin en la luna (Ailín on the Moon) (Argentina)
A mother and daughter’s love is orbited by joys and challenges.
2018; Animation; directed by Claudia Ruiz; 5 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Duermevela (Doze) (Colombia)
Growing up is never easy, especially since Daniel must navigate some of it alone—until support turns up in an unexpected form.
2019; Live Action, directed by Alfonso Acosta, 7 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Mi hermano Luca (My Brother Luca) (Mexico)
When an imaginative little girl discovers that her brother might have superpowers, she sets out on a quest to make sure everyone else sees him as she does.
2019; Animation; directed by Carlos Algara & Catalina Serna; 9 minutes
The Size of Things (El Tamaño de las Cosas) (Colombia)
Diego and his dad live a life of simple means in the forest, so when Diego comes across an unexpected find, its magnitude grows curiouser and curiouser.
2019; Live Action; directed by Carlos Felipe Montoya; 12 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
Lessons Learnt by the Sea (Cuba)
Eleven-year-old Alejandro surfs off the coast of Havana every afternoon, learning lessons of resilience from the ultimate teacher, the sea.
2018; Documentary, directed by Néstor Kim Enríquez; 5 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles

¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: Zombi Child
2022-09-28 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Zombi Child is a 2019 French drama film directed by Bertrand Bonello. It is based on the account of the life of a supposed zombified man in Haiti, Clairvius Narcisse. It was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
2019; Written and Directed by Bertrand Bonello; 103 min; French with English subtitles, not rated
Free community event. Please register in advance here:

Film: Bless Me, Ultima
2022-09-30 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
7:00 pm
Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation in partnership with the English department of the University of New Mexico. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico, and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to the wonders of the spiritual realm. As the entire world is plunged into war and Antonio Marez grapples with the harsh realities all around him, his life is forever changed by the sudden arrival of Ultima, a curandera who inspires him to see the world from a new perspective.
2011; Carl Franklin; English; 102 minutes; rated PG-13.
Reception at 6:00 pm & Pre-film Talk by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez at 6:30 pm.
Free ticketed event. Please make a reservation here, or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
The Bank of America provides generous support for this film series.

2022 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, featuring Erika L. Sánchez
2022-10-06 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
“CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that the 2022 Anaya Lecture has been cancelled upon the request of the speaker. Please join us for a film screening of Carl Franklin’s Bless Me, Ultima at the NHCC on Sept. 30 with a pre-lecture introduction by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez. Reception at 6pm, pre-lecture introduction at 6:30, and film screening at 7pm. The film screening is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Free ticketed event; visit https://nhccdev.wpengine.com/event/film-bless-me-ultima/.”

7:00 pm
Join us for the the 2022 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, featuring New York Times bestselling author Erika L. Sánchez. This program is in collaboration with the University of New Mexico’s English Department.
The English Department is excited to host Sánchez as this year’s featured speaker in the annual lecture series that Mr. Anaya established. Sánchez is a Lobo alumna and graduate of the English Department’s MFA program, and she penned the foreword to the Penguin Vitae fiftieth anniversary edition of Anaya’s canonical novel, Bless Me, Ultima.
Please register for this event here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Sánchez, a Lobo alumna, is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist whose work pays tribute to Anaya’s novel and its significance to Southwest literature and culture.
Sánchez’s debut poetry collection, Lessons in Expulsion (Graywolf Press 2017) was released alongside her Young Adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf 2017), a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. The novel also won the 2018 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award for Older Readers, and it is currently in production to become a feature film. Her third book, Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir, was just released to critical acclaim (Viking 2022). Sánchez’s poems have appeared in Poets.org, Vinyl Poetry, Guernica, diode, Boston Review, Paris Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine, and her non-fiction in Al Jazeera, ESPN.com, the Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Salon, and Cosmopolitan for Latinas, where she was the sex and love advice columnist.

Erika L. Sánchez Poetry Workshop: “Negative Capability and the Imagination”
2022-10-07 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
“CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that the 2022 Anaya Lecture has been cancelled upon the request of the speaker. Please join us for a film screening of Carl Franklin’s Bless Me, Ultima at the NHCC on Sept. 30 with a pre-lecture introduction by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez. Reception at 6pm, pre-lecture introduction at 6:30, and film screening at 7pm. The film screening is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Free ticketed event; visit https://nhccdev.wpengine.com/event/film-bless-me-ultima/.”

11:00 am
Following Erika L. Sánchez’s reading, head back to the Center for her poetry workshop: “Negative Capability and the Imagination.” This event is in collaboration with the University of New Mexico’s English Department.
This is a free, ticketed event. Please register here.
Sánchez, a Lobo alumna, is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.
Sánchez’s debut poetry collection, Lessons in Expulsion (Graywolf Press 2017) was released alongside her Young Adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf 2017), a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. The novel also won the 2018 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award for Older Readers, and it is currently in production to become a feature film. Her third book, Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir, was just released to critical acclaim (Viking 2022). Sánchez’s poems have appeared in Poets.org, Vinyl Poetry, Guernica, diode, Boston Review, Paris Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine, and her non-fiction in Al Jazeera, ESPN.com, the Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Salon, and Cosmopolitan for Latinas, where she was the sex and love advice columnist.
Please register in advance here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

NHCC Signature Event: Hector Galán Director Talk and Screening
2022-10-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm- Pre-film reception in Salón Ortega
7:00 pm- Screening begins in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre
Join us as we celebrate Hector Galán, the first documentary filmmaker to be inducted into the prestigious Texas Film Hall of Fame, to cap off our Hispanic Heritage Month celebration! Galán will be hosting a director’s talk and screening of his documentary Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement.
Free Community Event, sponsored by United Way. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

As one of the most prolific documentary filmmakers working today, Hector Galán has contributed over forty hours of programming to major television series such as PBS Frontline and American Experience, to cable networks, and to PBS primetime. Galán has produced many critically acclaimed and award-winning independent films through his company Galán Inc. Television/Film which was founded in 1984 in Austin, Texas.
Galán theatrically released his feature documentary, Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads in 2006. Most recently, Galán completed production in the Middle East and Europe on a six hour series, The Road from Christ to Constantine, a remarkable journey into early Christianity and completed production on Children of GIANT, a documentary feature set in the West Texas town of Marfa, that explores social issues throughout history, weaving a scenic exploration of the Academy Award-winning film, George Stevens’ Giant, with contemporary interviews.

Día de los Muertos: Catrina en el Museo
2022-11-02 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Please join us for screenings of short films from Mexico, a cash bar, and a live Catrina en el Museo styled by BBLex Productions. Participate in our community ofrenda while you celebrate Día de los Muertos at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Special thanks to the Consul de Mexico for their support of this event.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Acequias: The Legacy Lives On
2023-01-28 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 to 8:30 pm
Opening Reception in Cayetana Romero Lobby: 6:00 pm—6:45 pm
Film Screening: 7:00 pm—8:00 pm
Panel discussion: 8:00 pm—8:30 pm
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 tribute to acequias’ past, present and future.
Free Community Event. Please register here or or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

With funding from UNM’s Center for Regional Studies, the film unfolds through a series of storylines including the acequias’ current challenges, such as climate change and water rights transfers, their important role in the development of local food sheds, and the economic opportunity they provide for members of rural communities. Further, in an arid state where every drop of water is studied and tracked, it has been shown that acequias provide recharge to our groundwater systems as water seeps into the earth beneath the flow. For over 400 years, Acequias have been in continuous use and remain important to an understanding of New Mexico’s acequia heritage and the continuing relevance of these water democracies.
The trailer for the movie is available here.

Navajo Star Wars Intergalactic Night
2023-03-10 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Art Activities, Music, Food Truck, & Cash Bar – 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Fronteras del Futuro Exhibition open – 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Prefilm Talk with Manny Wheeler – 6:00 pm
Film Screening – 7:00 pm
Join the NHCC for a special screening of Star Wars: A New Hope in Navajo. Manny Wheeler, who was instrumental in getting this version of Star Wars made into an official dub, will give a pre-film talk about the importance of access to cultural resources in the Navajo language and equitable representation for native nations. Arrive early to tour the NHCC Art Museum exhibition, Fronteras del Futuro, to find other Star Wars connections while you enjoy artmaking, music, food trucks, and a cash bar. If you are lucky, you might spot a stormtrooper or two!
Free Community Event. Please register HERE or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Generous support for this event provided by Bank of America. © & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Used Under Authorization.

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Iberia (2005)
2023-03-24 - 2023-03-26 | Virtual
12 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Don’t miss the latest online film series from Instituto Cervantes, focusing on the life and work of the internationally renowned director Carlos Saura. Saura’s 2005 film Iberia traces a series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz’s “Iberia” suite. The film received the Goya Award for Best Cinematography/Mejor Fotografía in 2006.
2005 | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 1 hour 39 minutes | Not Rated
Free Community Event

This documentary film, Saura continues in his line of work, which uses contemporary flamenco to make his contribution to Spanish musical cinema, accompanied by unquestionable artists such as the dancers Sara Baras, Antonio Canales, José Antonio Ruiz, Aída Gómez and Patrick de Bana, the musicians Manolo Sanlúcar, Gerardo Núñez and Jorge Pardo and the singers Enrique Morente and his daughter Estrella.
This film also initiates a more ambitious stage that will lead Saura to investigate the folkloric tradition of other environments, approaching them directly, as he will demonstrate in two of his later films: Fados (2007) and Zonda, folclore argentino (2015).
Synopsis: Based on Iberia, the musical piece by Isaac Albéniz, this documentary follows the rehearsals and performances of dancers, choreographers, musicians and singers, all great artists in the world of contemporary flamenco.

Feature Film: Backstreet to the American Dream
2023-04-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories
Feature: Backstreet to the American Dream (2021) directed by Patricia Nazario
6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar
7:00 pm: Film Screening Followed by Director’s Q&A
Backstreet to the American Dream is a modern-day look at the classic American Dream done through the quintessential 21st Century entrepreneurial endeavor – food trucks! This deep dive into the birthplace of the $2 billion dollar global industry, Los Angeles, profiles two trucks and juxtaposes the experiences of American entrepreneurs and Mexican immigrants. Indeed, these are very different operations in the same city: the gourmet burger truck, Grill ‘Em All, is the first season winner of The Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network in 2010, and El Pescadito, a mariscos lonchera (seafood truck), that has been parking at the same swap meet in an immigrant neighborhood since 1982.
Through rich and vibrant stories of everyday Americans, this powerful 90-minute feature takes the audience on a journey waved from intimate moments. You’ll consider pop culture and family traditions, formal and informal economies, and the unifying quest for the American Dream. Additionally, a four-minute animated open (in English/Spanish/and the indigenous Náhuatl language), scored with native sounds from handmade instruments, traces street food from South L.A. back to Ancient Mexico and reveals many Náhuatl names still used for food to this very day.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
2022 | Documentary | Spanish with English Subtitles | 71 minutes | not rated

Feature Film: What We Leave Behind
2023-04-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories
Feature: What We Leave Behind (2022) directed by Iliana Sosa
6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar
7:00 pm: Film Screening followed by Director’s Q&A
What We Leave Behind is a 2022 documentary film. It’s a portrait of director Iliana Sosa’s grandfather, Julián Moreno, as he starts building a house in the Mexican state of Durango. As a younger man, Julián had spent decades living between the United States and Mexico, first working as a bracero and later traveling by bus to visit his children and grandchildren in the Southwestern United States. In the film, Julián revisits this past with his granddaughter as the two forge a tighter bond together. Voiceovers from the director punctuate the film and pair with imagery of the local landscape; the soundtrack features an a cappella song by the Cardencheros de Sapioriz, who are also from Durango.
The film received development, production, and post-production support from several institutions, including the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, the Sundance Institute, the IDA, the Austin Film Society, the True/False & Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, the Jacob Burns Film Center, the Gotham Documentary Lab, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
2022 | Documentary | Spanish with English Subtitles | 71 minutes | not rated

Directors’ Talks with Iliana Sosa, Patricia Nazario, & Aracely Chapa
2023-04-15 | NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
On April 15th, participate in Director’s Talks and question and answer sessions with filmmakers Patricia Nazario, Iliana Sosa, and Aracely Chapa from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm in Salón Ortega. A full schedule of events is available below.
This is event is part of the 1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

1:00 pm – Iliana Sosa: Ethics and Challenges in Making a Personal Documentary. Sosa discusses the ethics and the many challenges of the 12-year journey and production with film clips, stories and images. Over these years, Sosa filmed her grandfather’s work, gently sifting through Julian’s previously unspoken memories brought up by the construction project to reveal both the daily pragmatism and poetry of life. The personal documentary unfolds as a love letter to her grandfather and an intimate and insightful exploration of her own relationship with her grandfather and his homeland.
2:00 pm – Aracely Chapa: A Behind the Scenes look at the making of the film, Acequias – The Legacy Lives On. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Aracely “Arcie” Chapa, Acequias is an hour-long, visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico’s enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, parciantes and more. Chapa recounts an oral history of the films 5-year production with film clips and archival pictures.
3:00 pm – Patricia Nazario: How to Finish a Documentary Film on a Shoestring Budget. Learn about the experience of a non-traditional filmmaker and resources used to maximize your budget. The talk will empower anyone, regardless of their educational level, to compose a sequential film timeline. I will share concepts, shortcuts, and links that helped me get started. I went to journalism, not film school. So, my learning curve was steep! Learn some tips and tricks of how to make a documentary film without going to film school.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Afro-Indigeneity
2023-04-17 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Screening of film “Garifuna in Peril” (2012), 99 mins.
Produced and Directed by Alí Allié y Ruben Reyes
Latin America has traditionally treated Indigenous and Afro peoples as separate. Yet the fates and identities of both have been intertwined since the arrival of Africans to the Americas. The film Garifuna in Peril delves into the Indigenous and Afro roots of the Garinagu, also known as the Garifuna.
Panelists include: Garifuna Scholar Pablo Jose Lopez Oro; San Ilefonso Tradition Bearer and Healer Tauz Tamu Povi; Afro-Latinidad and Afro-Indigeneity Scholar Dr. Sheryl Felecia Means; and Big Queen of the New Orleans Washitau Nation, Ausettua AmorAmenkum.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Folk Medicine: Healing & Spirituality
2023-04-18 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Screening of short film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” (2022), written and directed by Cara Lawson, 15 mins.
Savannah’s moss-covered forests are alive to Bertie Bee Hooks, a gifted granddaughter of a midwife. With the wisdom of folk medicine, Bertie Bee depends on mystical connections to the spirit world as she becomes exposed to the tragedies of a wounded American past.
Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & Healer Tauz TamuPovi; Ausettua AmorAmenkum who since the 1980s has engaged incarcerated women with performance & spiritual arts.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

AfroMundo Festival: Resistance & Creativity: Inclusive Narratives
2023-04-20 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
Screening of short documentary film “Rising Voices” (2022), by Kwanza Gooden, 8 mins.
This short documentary explores the importance of investing in and sharing stories created by Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and storytellers.
Panelists include: Mel Adún, Writer and Cofounder of Editora Ogums Publishing Collective; Ausettua AmorAmenkum, founder of New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Resident Group; The Gradates—a performance group comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; and Josie Lopez, PhD, Head Curator at the Albuquerque Museum.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

Día de Familia: Tierra Hermosa
2023-04-22 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
11:00 am–3:00 pm
3:00 to 4:30 pm: Screening of Boy & The World (Brazil, 2013)
Celebrate Earth Day at the NHCC with art activities, music, film, and poetry for all! Take a stroll along the Bosque and honor our beautiful earth through the arts. Guests will explore bats with RD Wildlife and native seeds with the U.S. Forest Service. Everyone is encouraged to bring their bike for minor repairs! Story Riders will host a bike clinic.
Express your love of the earth through poetry and take a poetry walk with the New Mexico Poetry Society. Art activities include plein air painting on the bosque and other nature-inspired projects that connect art and science. Tierra Adentro Charter School Dance Ensemble will present a flamenco pre-film performance. Then, finish out the day with a free film screening of the award-winning Brazilian animated children’s film, Boy & The World.
Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
Generously supported by PNM. Film screening courtesy of Bank of America.
