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Todd P and NRMAL announce Festival NRMAL lineup

February 20, 2013 By Austin Vida Staff

Mexico's Leading Independent Music and Arts Festival Returns to Monterrey, Mexico, March 6-10

Brace yourselves; Festival NRMAL, one of Mexico’s leading independent music and arts festival, is returning this spring to Mexico’s second-largest city: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Since its creation in 2010, Festival NRMAL has become the go-to festival for artists that for some reason can’t come to Austin for South by Southwest. Now into their fourth year, the festival has a lineup of more than a hundred emerging bands and artists from all over the world. Organizers Nrmal and Todd Patrick. announced that among the artists will be Ariel Pink’s Haunted Grafitti, Trash Talk, Brujería , Mac DeMarco, Pierced Arrows (formerly Dead Moon), Twin Shadow, Physical Therapy and many, many more

In addition, Festival NRMAL will host an arts festival within the festival. This will include art galleries, on-site installations by graphic and industrial designers, photographers, illustrators and urban artists, and its own design and arts& crafts market.

The festival will take place from Mar. 6- 10 in Monterrey, Mexico. Tickets are now on sale for $25 via Ticketfly. More information about the festival can be found at the official website http://FestivalNrmal.net.

See the complete lineup below.

Sat. Mar. 9

ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFITTI * BRUJERIA * TWIN SHADOW * DANIEL MALOSO * DIIV * SKY FERREIRA * MYKKI BLANCO * MORTUARY * BANDA DE TURISTAS * NGUZUNGUZU * SAN PEDRO EL CORTEZ * LAS ROBERTAS * PROTISTAS * 60 TIGRES * RITES WILD * TRASH TALK * MAC DEMARCO * MANIQUI LAZER * PIERCED ARROWS (DEAD MOON) * YO! LINARES * MILK MUSIC * MUERAN HUMANOS * KING TUFF * APOCALIPSIS * JAVIER ESTRADA * SOLAR YEAR * FEAR OF MEN * MALIGNO * ROGELIO SOSA * THRONE * EPTOS UNO * RUN DMT * BOCANEGRA * MAIN ATTRAKIONZ * THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE * MARÍA Y JOSÉ * DOOMSDAY STUDENT * PUNCH * DANIEL HIGGS (LUNGFISH) * WHITE NINJA * DUSTIN WONG (PONYTAIL) * PARQUET COURTS * A LIFE ONCE LOST * PC WORSHIP * HACIENDO EL MAL * DOPE BODY * DICKPIC (PICTUREPLANE + DJ DOG DICK) * BRUNO DARÍO * EAGULLS * AKÛMA * SANTOS * TONSTARTSSBANDHT * STALAKTOS * MATILDA MANZANA * CALAFIA PUTA * AVE NEGRA * THE DREEBS * CAPULLO * BABY NELSON & THE PHILISTINES * JUAN PABLO VILLEGAS

Mar. 6-10

LAUREL HALO * GEPE * ALGODÓN EGIPCIO * SUN ARAW * LAS ARDILLAS * KITTY PRYDE * ALEX ANWANDTER * SELMA OXOR * SOLEDAD * LITTLE ETHIOPIA * TOTAL FREEDOM * LAO * FAKUTA * PICTUREPLANE * MENEO * SIETE CATORCE * SIMPSON AHUEVO * HUSKY * GRAND RESORT * TOM BLACKLUNG AND THE SMOKESTACKS * TEEN FLIRT * LOS BLUE DEVILS * SLONK DONKERSON * MENUDA COINCIDENCIA * TINO EL PINGUINO * ULISES ZARAZUA * TOCADISCOS TREZ * ALBERTO ACINAS * MKRNI * VERANO PELIGROSO * PHYSICAL THERAPY * VAMPIRE SLAYER * ZUTZUT * DJ SLIINK * DJ WEIRD MAGIC * AL LOVER * DR. DUDE * LOS VIGILANTES * VEGAN CANNIBAL * CUCHILLO * NO SOMOS MARINEROS

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Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival returns to East Austin

January 30, 2013 By Piper LeMoine

February 1-3, the Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival returns for its second year. The 3-day festival will again return to the Moose Lodge in east Austin, showcasing nearly two dozen different conjuntos from all over Texas, including legendary performers, red-hot up and coming bands, and the stars of tomorrow.

The current list of performers, may be subject to change:

Friday (2/1/13):
8 p.m. – Conjunto Volcan – San Antonio, TX
9 p.m. – Noel Hernandez – Fort Worth, TX
10 p.m. – Ricky Ruiz y Los Escorpiones – Laredo, TX
11 p.m. – Susan Torres y Conjunto Clemencia – Austin, TX
Midnight – Baraja De Oro – Midlothian, TX

Saturday (2/2/13):
1 p.m. – Los Morales Boyz – Dallas, TX
2 p.m. – Conjunto Calidad – Seguin, TX
3 p.m. – Conjunto Kidz – Victoria, TX
4 p.m. – Tina White y Grupo Tormenta – San Antonio, TX
5 p.m. – Randy Garcia y Conjunto Estrella – Refugio, TX
6 p.m. – Crystal N Crew – Pasadena, TX
7 p.m.– Special Recognition honors for Agapito Zuñiga and Austin legends
8 p.m. – Rene Ramirez y Poder de Tejas w/Pico Ramirez – San Diego, TX
9 p.m. – Mando y La Venganza – Corpus Christi, TX
10 p.m. – Los Enmascarados – Kingsville, TX
11 p.m. – Smiley y La Fuerza Musical – Refugio, TX
Midnight – Los D Boyz – Kingsville, TX

Sunday (2/3/13):
1 p.m. – Conjunto Cats – Seguin, TX
2 p.m. – Los Pinkys – Austin, TX
3 p.m. – Conjunto X – Houston, TX
4 p.m. – Bernardo y Sus Compadres – Laredo, TX
5 p.m. – Austin’s Own Los Texas Wranglers with Roberto Pulido (Edinburg, TX)

The event will also feature a conjunto photo exhibit and sale by photographer Rolando Medina, and special recognition for Austin legends and conjunto pioneer Agapito Zuñiga. Nonprofit organization Emancipet will also be honored for providing affordable, accessible spay/neuter services and preventive wellness care to pets across seven counties in Central Texas.

Tickets are $15 at the door, or $12 per day presale, and $30 for a 3-day pass, available at Estrada’s Cleaners (2618 E 7th St), Turntable Records (1903 S 1st St), or online at ranchoalegretexas.com.

The Moose Lodge is located at 2103 E.M. Franklin Ave, east of Airport Blvd, north of MLK, in east Austin. For more information, visit ranchoalegretexas.com, and follow the Facebook event here.

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Festival Recap: Primavera Sound 2012

June 27, 2012 By Winston Rivas

Editor’s note: Earlier this month, Austin Vida contributor Winston Rivas was able to fulfill a long-time dream of traveling to Barcelona, Spain, for the international mega music festival Primavera Sound. The following is Rivas’ review of the festival.

Barcelona. Very few cities provoke such raw emotions. I’m not quite sure if it’s the Spanish wind or the fact that you know that all the vices—even the ones you just thought about for a split second—are just a fingertip away. A city which has been a nursery for the creative and social outcasts, always on the breaking point of the next trendy thing from gastronomy to photography. When it comes to the music scene Barcelona doesn’t play second fiddle to its European counterparts (London, Berlin). For the last decade, Primavera Sound has found a way to bring legions of music aficionados from all the European regions by combining bands of legendary status with your yearly buzz bands. A mind-boggling amount of people. Like a hipster Austin City Limits Fest times ten and next to the beach.

The list of bands in this year’s edition included more than 100 bands, among them the legendary The Cure and Pitchforkian faves Beach House. But as the festival took place in Spain there was no shortage of quality Spanish indie bands worth checking out.

On Thursday, the first band to take the stage was Pegasvs, the heralded synth connoisseurs composed of Luciana y Sergio recently debuted there first LP to high praise within the Ibero-american indie circles. With dueling Moog synths,  the duo provided a set that was as visual appealing as their glossy brand of synth-pop. Every song had sweeping progression that never failed to move the crowd, the duo worked their Moog machines like mad scientists, adjusting every knob possible. Luciana’s voice is as tender live as on record, providing the early and unfortunately smallish crowd with a reason to dance and be optimistic for the rest of the festival. A smashing set that was reaffirmation that Pegasvs is Spain’s finest export and Iberoamericas breakout band of 2012.

Friday showcased three of Iberoamerica’s prominent indie artists. First it was Bigott, the indie-folk singer-songwriter with enough charisma to spare. Perhaps it is the long beard and awkward dancing but there is incredible charm to Bigott . Not to mention the lovely brand of indie-folk pop that is even more engaging and playful live. The most sincere moment was during his song “Cool Single eeding” which had spanish couples swaying and embracing each other. Accompanied by a talented group of musicians, the set left the crowd on high spirits and everyone dancing (even to a song titled “Cannibal Dinner”). Bigott, who sings in English, is an artist well capable of making a crossover to American audiences.

Later that evening it was Joe Crepúsculo in a Rayban Unplugged session, plagued with sound problems for a good 20 minutes the avant-pop artist struggled to find a groove early on, but once he began to settle the small tent came to life with brimming techno-pop that had his legion of Barcelona hipsters packing in close and closer to his keyboard. Usually when I think “unplugged,” I think “lazy dude in chair with guitar” but this was more of an intimate house party full of pretty Barcelona indie girls dancing away. At times his music is diffcult to devulge yourself into but once the cerebral part is taken out and you simply swim in the flourishing rythums its easy to fall for Joe’s Music, his lyrics put it best “Despierta el robot que llevas dentro.”

One of the more anticipated sets on a Latin American level was Rebolledo and Matias Aguayo, part of the mipster and European-approved Comeme Crew. Rebolledo, the Mexican from the Beaches of Cancun who plays a dark, menacing “Oh shit, this beat is so heavy” brand of dance music that can be heard in any industrial German nightclub or in Cancun, Matias Aguayo is the tropical guru who provides the psychedelic trip though the amazons. As Rebolledo made his way up with a couple beats of his mipster anthem “Guerreo” playing, the crowd was already screaming “Soy un guerrero” but of course it was just a tease (a one-and-a-half-hour tease). Rebolledo set was a tale of two halves. The first half was difficult to swallow, songs that played too long and lacked any real cohesion and dance-ability. After 40 minutes, Matias Aguayo came to provide a spark of tropical rhythms and tribal vocals (some awsome bird chirps). Matias Aguayo was more commanding on stage and his music was generally more well received. Rebolledo made a return to a better second half playing hits from his album Super Vato. Rebolledo looked more settled and finally played Guerrero at 5:20 am, but the crowd didn’t wane and screamed “Soy un guerrero, visto de cuero!” Even still, Rebolledo’s set left much to be desired.

Saturday had the recently signed Nacional Records artist Astro playing at the Adidas stage in an early set at 5 p.m. Part of the Chilean music renaissance, the group had its share of bright moments. Playing in front of a responsive crowd who knew their songs. The group’s set was bumpy at times but overall enjoyable. The transition from hearing them on CD to finally seeing them live was better than expected. The group ended their set on a high note with their Latin indie hit “Maestro Distrocion” which is even more epic live. It was easy to see why Nacional Records signed the group. Side Note: After the set, a girl asked me if I was Chilean. Yeah, I know.

Mujeres made there way to the Vice stage to a very large crowd. The fuzzy brand of garage rock was extremely impressive. It was great change of pace from the more subdued indie-rock outfits throughout the day.  The band who is no stranger to big festivals in Spain and looked like the polished outfit  that being said, they never shy to exude aggression and power. The  band is a throwback to Spain’s  history of  aggressive rock bands.

It was finally Saturday or Sunday (time has no concept in Barcelona), 3 a.m. hovered and the moon still as potent as ever, hoards of fans scrambled to what became the default headliner for Saturday, Neon Indian. Alan Palomo the hometown hero of Austin Texas (sorry Denton, he’s ours). As Neon Indian prepared, there where whispers among the crowd as Alan Palomo spoke Castellano to his sound guy “Habla Castellano” fans asked rhetorically. As I stood front row I turned around and simply said “vale, es mexicano”. Which seemed to bamboozle them. This was no doubt Alan’s biggest moment, from filling up the Emo’s small stage with Vega to Mohawk, Fun Fun Fest to this closing Europe’s premier music fest. The lights dimmed and Alan slowly turned the nobs on his Moog and the first beats of local joke blasted, Alan swiveled back with his mipster dance move, there as no doubt he was ready. Sweeeping though a mix from his first to albums,occasionally stopping in-between songs to get a swig of tequilla (Jose Cuervo, of course). Alan Palomo commanded the stage with more vigour and sensuality then previously seen, Alan didn’t use vocal synthesizer rather used his more natural voice which brought even more heart to his set. After 45 minutes which seemed to pinch his set the fans were left salivating another song(terminally chill, a VEGA SONG?!?) which never came. If Neon Indian needed another “hey where a super legit indie band” stamp the fully received it in Barcelona. The crowd dispersed with a collective sigh and made there way out to the other stages where it was dubstep hour.

As the fans slowly made there way out of el Parc Del Forum, It was another sucessful edition of Primavera Sound. I made my way to metro stop (after declining coke and beer from street-peddlers)around 5:30 to the most packed subway you will ever see. The fatigue seemed to finally be setting in on these European hipsters. It was similar feeling you get at SXSW you know after that final final set at Mohawks and you walk your swollen feet down east 6th and turn right on chicon when you know your house is on ceaser chavez and you make a big ass circle. Yea well, it was just like that except i got off at Passeig de Gracia when my stop was Jaume I and Barcelona isn’t really that inviting at 6:30 am(Yet prostitutes still working did provide me with some comfort level). Needless to say i got to my hotel as the sun was starting to reach full blast. Regardless, Primavera Sound is bethomth of a festival a bucket List type of festival for any Music Junkie, perhaps not as big as SXSW but just as potent. The Beach, the Bands, the fact your thousands miles away from home just provides to the adrenaline rush that is this once in life experience.  So if you plan to make any festival roadtrip. Skip the Coachella Polo club and head to Catalonia.

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A tree that’s no longer there: An interview with filmmaker Simone Rapisarda Casanova

May 25, 2012 By Gabino Iglesias

Simone Rapisarda
Simone Rapisarda Casanova / courtesy photo

Filmmaker Simone Rapisarda Casanova set out to capture what life is like in a remote fishing community and ended up chronicling life in the small village of Juan Antonio, Cuba. What he actually accomplished, however, is much more. Shortly after filming came to an end, Juan Antonio was destroyed by a hurricane. Now, El árbol de las fresas stands as a historical document of a community that no longer exists and a film that bridges the gaps between documentary, celebration and anthropological text.

“I wanted to make an ethnographic film about people practicing subsistence fishing who at the same time were educated and smart enough to have an understanding of the western gaze on the “others” and of the colonialist enterprise of which classic ethnography was only a facet,” said Rapisarda.

“I imagined that if such a place existed, I could find it in Cuba. Once there, it took me more than three weeks to find Juan Antonio, first using documentation about fishing villages provided by the Centro de Antropologia in Havana and then, when this documentation proved to be obsolete, just driving all along the coasts of the island and following my intuition about where fishing villages could be located, Rapisarda said.

Rapisarda said he picked the fishing village for very particular reasons, but finding it was an adventure that began with paperwork and ended up being based on pure intuition.

“I was born in Sicily and grew up next to the sea, so I kind of knew what to look for. In all cases I arrived too late, as each village, for one reason or another, had disappeared or changed status. In the case of Juan Antonio I was lucky enough to arrive just before its disappearance. I had almost given up my quest by then, as I had driven along more than 80% of the coast. In fact, even if I cannot be completely confident about this, I think that Juan Antonio was the last fishing village on the island,” Rapisarda said.

The Cine Las Americas website describes the documentary as one that “tests the boundaries between anthropology, documentary and reverie.” For Rapisarda, who considers himself an experimental filmmaker, the amalgamation of genres was not a surprise.

“I am not an anthropologist nor a documentary filmmaker,” said Rapisarda. “I am an experimental filmmaker and, as such, I knew that the final film would drastically depart from the canons observed by individuals belonging to those two professions. I did not know exactly how that would happen, but I knew that my high dislike for canons would have prevented me to strictly follow any of the established conventions vis a vis the documentary or the ethnographic genres.”

El arbol de las fresas
El Arbol movie poster

Being an experimental filmmaker also meant that Rapisarda ended up wearing many hats during the making of the film. Rapisarda acted as producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and sound designer for El árbol de las fresas. Despite all the work that it entails, he said it’s a choice that pays off when it comes to putting his vision on the screen.

“Experimental filmmakers mostly work alone or in small crews,” said the filmmaker. “It is often a choice not solely dictated by the budget, but also, and more importantly, it’s a choice that allows for the greater degrees of flexibility and of intimacy with the subject matter.”

Having El árbol de las fresas screen in Austin is an opportunity that Rapisarda is happy to have. The city’s diverse population means that viewers will probably have a background that helps them understand the cultural implications of the film as well as the unique circumstances that the residents of Juan Antonio faced.

“As Austin hosts a pretty diverse population and a large percentage of Latin America migrants, for me it’s a great opportunity for the film to be appreciated by audiences that have first-hand experience of both the so called “developed” and “developing” world,” said Rapisarda. “For this reason I am sure that the Q&A at the end of the screening would have been a very interesting one, as the one in Miami was. For this reason I’m sad that the previous engagements I had here in Europe are preventing me to attend the festival.”

El árbol de las fresas won Honorable Mention in the Knight Documentary Competition at the Miami International Film Festival and is part of the Documentary Feature Competition at Cine Las Americas International Film Fest. Meanwhile, Rapisarda is working on a very different project.

“I’m about to start production on a film in my native Italy,” said the experimental filmmaker. “It’s about a failed state, and the promise of a democracy that never materialized. It’s an experimental comedy, but the subject matter is pretty disheartening, so I don’t know if I’ll succeed.”

For those of you who are contemplating watching the movie, Rapisarda said the type of shots and their pacing work best on the big screen.

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Interview: Cine Las Americas’ top executive, from volunteer to director

April 24, 2012 By Eugenia Vela

Eugenio del Bosque
Eugenio del Bosque / courtesy photo

It’s a little blue house with a white door, past a jungle of a courtyard behind a picket fence—the office of the Latin American film festival Cine Las Americas, which after 15 years is growing stronger than ever. Eugenio del Bosque greets me in his office, a small space covered in Cine posters that date back to 2003. His desk faces a wall covered in colorful pictures, concert tickets and hanging press passes, but he leads me to the conference room in the back, beyond the office noise and buzz.

The first thing del Bosque, the festival’s executive director, says is he speaks fluent Spanish, because he’s Mexican—half chilango (from Mexico City), half regio (from Monterrey). He studied communications at Tec de Monterrey, and worked as a film editor and producer for nine years when he stumbled upon a project called Cine Las Americas in Austin. He joined as a volunteer in 2002. “They sent me to represent the festival in the Havana Film Festival in Cuba. And that’s what changed my life. I came back full of ideas. I was just a volunteer, but I really wanted to do more,” del Bosque says.

He became the festival’s programmer the following year and its executive director in 2006, a position he’s held since then, and one he began with a passion. “Back then, the Latin American festival in Havana was the big monolith of Latin American film, that’s where everything happened,” he says. “To be honest, before, I was not in that loop. I mean, I came from Monterrey. Everything we saw was Hollywood, so it was a big eye-opener for me, a whole new world. And I figured, we can do it in Austin.”

Cine Las Americas—this year running from April 24-29—takes place in different venues around the city, such as Alamo Drafthouse, the Mexican American Cultural Center and St. Edward’s University. It brings in movies from South America, Spain, Mexico, the U.S. and beyond, all of which go through a selection committee. “We always get really excited about seeing these films. You go to other countries and see them, and get excited about bringing them back,” he says. “That was the thing that closed the circle for me, having been in Havana, where somebody recommended to go see something so I saw it, liked it, and fast forward six or seven months and we’re sitting at the Alamo Drafthouse watching that same movie.”

Cine las Americas 2012 poster
Cine Las Americas 2012 poster

In 2011, Cine Las Americas had 2,700 attendees—filmmakers, producers, actors and viewers from Houston, San Antonio and Austin. “The Austin audience is very well educated,” del Bosque says. “It’s educated and sophisticated, but it’s laid back in its protocol.” It’s this audience that makes the best moments in the festival happen for del Bosque, whose favorite part of the job is that—sharing the films, and absorbing the reaction. “When you have someone presenting their movie, and an audience responding in a positive way, that’s priceless,” he says. “Because it can be kind of lonely; this is not a glamorous job. So only if those things are happening, then you are happening.”

There are several of those films that del Bosque can recall had a particularly strong reaction. He remembers a specific film, De Nadie, that left the audience in tears. “It was the first documentary to talk about the Central American experience of crossing Mexico. For the immigrants. And it was just, you know, terrible things to see. What was happening on the screen was so… it was a big reaction.”

Del Bosque’s excited for several things to come—both in this year’s Cine Las Americas, and the larger spectrum. The group is implementing a membership system, for example, as a fundraising strategy. Del Bosque also speaks of the programs that Cine Las Americas supports, such as BeatLab and Emergencia. The latter is a youth film program during the festival to celebrate filmmakers 19 years old and younger. This year, Emergencia is partnering with Cinema Ducan, an organization whose goal is to put youth films at the Cannes Film Festival. “It’s really a lot of fun,” he says. “This is made by youth, and these artists usually don’t have the preocupations that grown-ups do, so they have a very fresh voice. They’re very free to say what they want to say.”

It’s clear in del Bosque’s voice that he looks forward to Cine Las Americas 2012 as much as he looks forward to coming into the office every day, to his unglamorous and beloved job.

Cine las Americas films Del Bosque is excited for:

  • Alguien ha visto a Lupita? (April 24 at 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar)
  • Aqui Entre Nos (April 28 at 7:15 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar)
  • De Caravana (April 25 at 9:30 p.m., April 29 at 11:30 a.m., Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar)
  • Los Viejos (April 29 at 4:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar)

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Cine Las Americas brings the world to Austin

April 12, 2012 By Gabino Iglesias

15th annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

The Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is true to its name: it’s an events that brings the world to Austin once a year. With a combination of big budget and indie features, documentaries and short films from all across the U.S., Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean, the final lineup for the 15th edition of the festival, which runs April 24-29, 2012, promises to be a cinematic treat. Film fans will have plenty to chose from with over 100 films from places like Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Canada and the U.S.

Among the many highlights of this year’s edition is Chilean Gonzalo Justiniano’s ¿Alguien Ha Visto A Lupita? (Have You Seen Lupita?), a film about a young Mexican girl who runs away from her family when they try to send her to a mental hospital and embarks on a journey through which she will discover a world that seems much crazier than she is. The film, which was short partly in Austin, will open the fest on Tuesday, April 24 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar and Mexican actress and singer Dulce María is scheduled to attend the opening night.

Other movies coming into the festival with considerable buzz include Colombian director Carlos Osuna’s Gordo, Calvo y Bajito (Fat, Bald, Short Man), an animated film that tells the story of a man who thinks his depressing life is the result of his looks and then meets someone who’s shorter, balder and fatter; Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo’s Extraterrestre (Extraterrestrial), a Fantastic Fest official selection that tells the story of a man who wakes up in the apartment of a woman he recently met and is forced to deal with an alien invasion; and Sicilian director Simone Rapisarda Casanova El árbol de las fresas (The Strawberry Tree), a documentary with an anthropological slant that follows the daily live of two families in one of Cuba’s last fishing villages. Based on trailers and music, there are also a couple of documentaries that will undoubtedly make an impact in the Live Music Capital of the World. Full of Jamaican sounds, Hit Me With Music is a documentary about dancehall that won Best Documentary at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival last year.

Likewise, the Hecho en Tejas portion of the festival brings to the screen Canción del Cuerpo (Song of the Body), a documentary that narrates the experiences of five dance students from the University of Texas at Austin who were paired with five professional Colombian dancers with the goal of creating a new piece of dance.

The festival closes on Sunday, April 29 with Selton Mello’s O Palhaço (The Clown), which will also be screened at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. The film follows the life of Benjamin, who along with his father Waldemar form the clown duo Thoroughbred and Mongrel, the main attraction of a circus that travels through the dirt roads of the Brazilian inlands.

Besides the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, there will be screenings at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) and at St. Edward’s University. All screenings presented at the MACC and at St. Edward’s University will be free and open to the public. All films are subtitled in English.

To get your badge or for information on single tickets, click here. You can also get them at the Registration Desk starting April 23. The badge will get you into all festival screenings as well as special events and parties. If you want a taste of the world with a Latin twist, Cine Las Americas is something you just can’t miss.

Here’s the complete list of films and their country they’re coming from:

NEW RELEASES

¿Alguien ha visto a Lupita? (Have You Seen Lupita?) – Gonzalo Justiniano (Director), Mexico/Chile/Argentina/Germany/USA

Aquí entre nos (Between Us) – Patricia Martínez de Velasco (Director), Mexico

Baby Shower – Pablo Illanes  (Director), Chile

Bonsái (Bonsai) – Cristián Jiménez (Director), Chile/France/Argentina/Portugal

El estudiante (The Student) – Santiago Mitre (Director), Argentina

Extraterrestre (Extraterrestrial) –Nacho Vigalondo (Director), Spain

Gordo, calvo y bajito (Fat, Bald, Short Man) – Carlos Osuna (Director), Colombia

José e Pilar (Jose and Pilar) – Miguel Gonçalves Mendes (Director), Spain/Portugal

Los viejos (The Parents) – Martín Boulocq (Director), Bolivia

Meu País (My Country) – Andre Ristum (Director), Brazil

Mosquita y Mari – Aurora Guerrero (Director), USA

O Palhaço (The Clown) – Selton Mello (Director), Brazil

Sal (Salt) – Diego Rougier (Director) – Argentina/Chile

Sangue do Meu Sangue (Blood of My Blood) – João Canijo (Director), Portugal

Without a Net – Kelly Richardson (Director), Brazil/USA

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

Camera obscura – Maru Solores (Director), Spain

Cápsulas (Capsules) – Verónica Riedel (Director), Guatemala

De caravana (Clubbing) – Rosendo Ruiz (Director), Argentina

Dia de Preto (Day of Black)  – Marcial Renato, Marcos Felipe Delfino, Daniel Mattos (Directors), Brazil

El lenguaje de los machetes  (Machete Language) – Kyzza Terrazas (Director), Mexico

Every Emotion Costs – Darlene Naponse (Director), Canada

La llamada (The Call) – Stefano Pasetto (Director), Italy/Argentina

Las malas intenciones (The Bad Intentions)  – Rosario Garcia-Montero (Director), Peru/Argentina/Germany

Música campesina (Country Music) – Alberto Fuguet (Director), Chile/USA

Under My Nails – Arí Maniel Cruz (Director), Puerto Rico/USA

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION

El árbol de las fresas (The Strawberry Tree) – Simone Rapisarda Casanova (Director), Canada/Cuba

Hit Me with Music – Miquel Galofré (Director), Jamaica/Spain

La maleta Mexicana (The Mexican Suitcase) – Trisha Ziff (Director), Mexico/Spain

La mudanza (The Move) – Tatiana Lorca (Director), Chile

La palabra en el bosque (The Word in the Woods) – Jeffrey Gould, Carlos Henriquez (Directors), El Salvador/USA

Morir de pie (Die Standing Up) – Jacaranda Correa (Director), Mexico

Nikkei – Kaori Flores Yonekura (Director), Venezuela

Olhe Pra Mim de Novo (Look at Me Again) – Claudia Priscilla, Kiko Goifman (Directors), Brazil

Up Heartbreak Hill – Erica Scharf (Director), USA

Yakuaya / La esencia del agua (Water Essence) – Marcelo Castillo (Director), Ecuador

PANORAMA FEATURE FILMS

Burros (Donkeys) – Odín Salazar Flores (Director), Mexico

Cerro Rico Tierra Rica – Juan Vallejo (Director), Colombia/Bolivia/USA

Con mi corazón en Yambo (With My Heart in Yambo) – María Fernanda Restrepo (Director), Ecuador

El destello (The Flicker) – Gabriel Szollosy (Director), Uruguay

El invierno de los raros (The Winter of the Odd Ones Out) – Rodrigo Guerrero (Director), Argentina

La hora cero (The Zero Hour) – Diego Velasco (Director), Venezuela

Madres 0,15 el minute (Mothers, 15 Cents a Minute) – Marina Seresesky (Director). Spain

Precious Knowledge – Ari Palos (Director), USA

Robert’s Paintings – Shelly Niro (Director), Canada

The Renaissance of Mata Ortiz – Scott Petersen (Director) USA

The Thick Dark Fog – Randy Vasquez (Director), USA

Vou Rifar Meu Coração (I Will Raffle off My Heart) – Ana Rieper (Director), Brazil

HECHO EN TEJAS

All She Can – Amy Wendel  (Director), USA

Canción del cuerpo (Song of the Body) – Andrew Segovia, Gabriela Alcalá (Directors), USA

Hombre y tierra (Man and Earth) – Christian Cisneros (Director), USA

In the Shadow – Nicole Elmer (Director), USA/Puerto Rico

Filed Under: Entertainment Tagged With: festival, film

Cine Las Americas announces opening and closing films

April 4, 2012 By Austin Vida Staff

Cine 2012 Poster
15th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

In less than a month, a week filled with screenings of Spanish- and Portuguese-language films awaits Austin’s cinephiles as Cine Las Americas hosts its 15th annual international film festival.

The line-up includes more than 100 films ranging from documentaries to features to shorts coming from Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Canada and the U.S. This year the festival will run from April 24-29.

Partially shot in the city, Austinites might recognize some scenes from the movie opening the festival, Gonzalo Justiniano’s ¿Alguien Ha Visto A Lupita? (Have You Seen Lupita?). Starring Dulce María, Carmen Salinas and Cristián de la Fuente the film follows Lupita, a young Mexican girl, who runs away to keep her family from sending her to a mental hospital. Her journey makes her discover a world much crazier than she is.  Actress Carmen Salinas, director Gonzalo Justinano and producer Daniel de la Vega are scheduled to attend the opening night .

Closing the festival is Brazilian film O Palhaço (The Clown) directed by Selton Mello. The film narrates the story of Benjamin and Waldemar, son and father clown duo Thoroughbred and Mongrel, who make-up the main attraction of Circo Esperanza, a 15-person circus that travels through the dirt roads in the Brazilian inlands. Hiding behind the audience’s laughter, Benjamin struggles with a personal crisis as he tries to find his own identity. Producer Fernanda Kalume is expected to attend the closing night.

In addition to screening the opening and closing films, the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar along with the Violet Crown, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center and St. Edward’s University will screen the films for the festival. Early bird badges are $65 through April 6 and give full access to the film festival events, including screenings, exclusive parties and panels. For more information and to purchase badges click here.

Watch the trailer for ¿Alguien Ha Visto A Lupita? (Have You Seen Lupita?) below:

The film opens the festival April 24 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar located at 1120 S. Lamar.

Watch the trailer for O Palhaço (The Clown) below:


The film closes the festival April 29 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar located at 1120 S. Lamar.

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[3/25] Preview: Austin Restaurant Week 2012

March 23, 2012 By Austin Vida Staff

Austin Restaurant Week

We got our fill of music last week in Austin with South by Southwest. Next week, it’s all about food.

Austin Restaurant Week starts on Sunday. The annual event celebrates locally owned restaurants and fine dining. The participating restaurants will be offering special menus and three-course meals available only during Restaurant Week.

Some of the proceeds of these sales will be donated to Meals on Wheels and More, a nonprofit organization that has served Austin for 40 years.

About 50 local restaurants are participating this year. There is no extra fee or entry cost; just make your dinner or lunch reservations through the festival’s website here.

Austin Restaurant Week takes place March 25 to 28, and April 1 to 4.

Filed Under: City & Culture Tagged With: festival, food, preview

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