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South
American Film Series
February 28 to March 2, 2006
Presented
by Galapagos Art Space
For three nights, Galapagos Art Space (70 N 6th Street, Williamsburg),
in collaboration with Cinema Tropical and Leblon Cachaca, will screen
four films from South America. On February 28th the series will start
with the screening of the critically acclaimed "State of Fear"
followed by a Q&A with the directors. March 1st the documentary
"I am Cuba: the Siberian Mammoth" and on March 2nd "Straight
to the Point", a documentary about Brazilian music legend Bezerra
da Silva, founder of Sambandidos "gangsta samba", will be
shown. The closing feature of this mini film series will be the US premier
of "Carreiras". There will be an after party on Thursday,
March 2nd after the screening.
For Ticket
information please email us @ rsvp@galapagosartspace.com
Sponsored
by www.leblonspirit.com
and www.cinematropical.com
The
films:
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February 28, 8pm, Tickets $8 with RSVP rsvp@galapagosartspace.com
State of Fear
The Truth About Terrorism - Followed by Q&A by the directors
Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis, USA, 2005, 94 min
Audience Award, Amnesty International Film Festival
Film Critics' Award, Chicago Documentary Festival
Henry Hampton Award, Council on Foundations
Moving from the breathtaking beauty of the Peruvian Andes to the graceful
sweep of coastal Lima, Pamela Yates' harrowing documentary "State
of Fear" chronicles 20 years of terror, brutality and repression.
Based on the testimony of more than 16,000 people to the Peruvian Truth
and Reconciliation Commission, the film begins with the rise of the
Maoist leader Abimael Guzmán and his Shining Path guerrillas
and culminates in the collapse of President Alberto K. Fujimori's government
in November 2000, when Mr. Fujimori resigned during a corruption scandal.
Between those events lie an estimated 70,000 dead and untold numbers
scarred for life. "State of Fear" is a timely lesson on the
hazards of choosing security over democracy.
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Wednesday, March 1, 9.15pm Tickets $8 with RSVP rsvp@galapagosartspace.com
I
am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Vincente Ferraz, Brazil, 2004, 90min
Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema - Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
"I am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth" chronicles the making of
the film "I am Cuba", the extraordinary, and for decades unknown,
film that the famous Soviet director, Mikhail Kalatozov made in Cuba
in the early 1960s during the time of the Cold War. This super production
was intended to be a propaganda piece for the Cuban revolution. However,
a week after its screening in Moscow and Cuba, it was taken out of release,
stored and consequently unknown to the West for more than 30 years until
the discovery of this gem by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
Through a combination of breathtaking shots from the original film and
interviews with surviving Soviet and Cuban cast and crew members, Ferraz
investigates the motives behind the banning of the film. The resulting
documentary provides us with insight into the ideology of the Cold War,
the recent history of Cuba, and the great irony of I am Cuba which only
the passage of time has been able to reveal.
* Thursday
March 2nd
Brazilian Night 2 films followed by an After Party...
 Thursday,
March 2, 7:30pm
Tickets $8 with RSVP rsvp@galapagosartspace.com
Carreiras
Domingos Oliveira, Brazil, 2005, 72min, US premiere
Best actress, Gramado Film Festival, Brazil
"Carreiras" in Portuguese can mean lines of coke, rush, or
careers. All three of these components are combined in this film to
drive the main character, a 40-something Jewish-Brazilian TV anchor
woman who faces her "long night of madness", snorting grams
of cocaine and trying to break the "system". Her resentment
stems from losing her status at the channel where she works, being replaced
now by younger women. As dawn breaks a surprise awaits her, leading
her to reverse the course of events. The film mixes frantic language
with an often acidic humor. Loosely based on the play Corpo a Corpo,
by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho. Ana Laura is wonderfully played by Priscilla
Rozenbaum, in a role which won her second Best Actress Award at the
Gramado Film Festival, 2005.
Thursday
March 2: 9:00pm
Tickets $6 with RSVP
rsvp@galapagosartspace.com
 Straight
to the Point
Marcia Derraik & Simplicio Neto, Brazil, 2001, 52min
Special Jury Award, Gramado Film Festival, Brazil
"Cine Mambembe", Short Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Best Documentary Short Film, Film and Video Festival, Cuiabá,
Brazil
Best Short Film , Rio Film Festival
Bezerra da Silva is one of the greatest recording artists in Brazil.
In his sambandidos (gangsta sambas), the word "love" is never
heard. His favorite subjects are the survival tactics of the cool dude
dodging the law to survive.
His amazing songwriting team is composed of young pagodeiros, from the
thriving favelas high up on the hills of Rio de Janeiro, and the Baixada
Fluminense - the lowlands surrounding the city. Known as "Popular
P", "Adelzonilton", "Walmir da Purificação",
"Roxinho", 1000tinho, these are the true poets of the hills,
in and out of prison, subjected to torture, patching together an existence
as electricians, mechanics, firemen, people coping daily with violence
and tragedy, and for this very reason, the idiosyncratic reality of
'malandragem" (gangsta cool), of law evasion for survival, which
inspires them to write sambas that are contagious and the most faithful
register of their social reality.
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A "Brazilian After Party" will follow the screenings on Thursday
March 2nd featuring Forro in the Dark (10:30pm till close)!
Forro
In The Dark plays the music of Luiz Gonzaga, the King Of Baião,
a style of Northeastern Brazilian dance music that is built around a
trio of accordion, triangle and zabumba (a small bass drum that sounds
huge). The relentless driving rhythms of the accordion, much like Zydeco,
combine together with beautiful and distinctly Brazilian melodies. Often
humorous, these are songs about life in the rugged, dry and unforgiving
landscape of northern Brazil. This is party music for hard working people
who would gather together at night for a "forro", where they
could drink and dance and forget their troubles. "Forro In The
Dark" is Rob Curto on accordion, Mauro Refosco on zabumba, Jorginho
Amorim on triangle, Sergio Brandão on bass and cavaquino, Smokey
Hormel on guitar. Individually, they have played with Beck, David Byrne,
Johnny Cash, Rosemary Clooney, and Bebel Giberto. As a group, they bring
a contagious sense of joy to the room whenever they play these great
Gonzaga songs, inspiring people of all races and ages to dance away
their blues. For more information, visit www.nublu.net
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