Film
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...)
Film Prize Jr. NM Awards Ceremony
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM10:00 am - 12:00 pm NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre Join the Film Prize Junior team Sunday morning, to enjoy a light breakfast and refreshments. We will be celebrating all of your accomplishments and announce the winners of Film Prize Junior NM 2024! Doors open and refreshments will be served at 10:00 am. The awards ceremony will begin at 10:30 am. Free Community Event. About Film Prize Junior: Inspired by Louisiana Film Prize, Film Prize Junior New Mexico is a student short film competition for middle and (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...)
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...)