LPB is proud to announce the screening of EL VELADOR, PARAISO FOR SALE, and UNFINISHED SPACES at the Los Angeles Film Festival. This will be the world premiere of the LPB funded films PARAISO FOR SALE and UNFINISHED SPACES.
Now in its 17th year, Film Independent’s Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by Los Angeles Times, showcases the best of American and international cinema. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival takes place June 16-26, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles. The Festival screens more than 200 features, shorts, documentaries and music videos from more than 40 countries. The Festival connects the movie-loving public to critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent in the heart of Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world.
For passes, tickets and full Festival details, please call 1.866.FilmFest or visit www.LAFilmFest.com.
EL VELADOR
Director: Natalia Almada
Documentary/72 Minutes
Saturday, June 18, 8:00 pm (Downtown Independent)
Sunday, June 19, 3:30 pm (L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas 8)
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Festival alum Natalia Almada follows Martin, the night watchman of one of the most ornate cemeteries in northern Mexico, where drug lords and corrupt cops are laid to rest. A documentary spawned from violence, The Night Watchman shows the end result of a chronic societal crisis. But Almada’s approach is poetic, not sociological, filled with striking surreal images of elaborate mausoleums that disrupt the pastoral landscape. As the cemetery, filled with widows tending to their husband’s shrines, constantly expands, the dreamlike quality of Almada’s filmmaking creates a disembodied atmosphere where the poor and living labor day and night for the rich deceased. For more information about the film, please visit the filmmaker’s website at: www.altamurafilms.com.
PARAISO FOR SALE
Director: Anayansi Prado
Documentary/75 Minutes
Saturday, June 18th, 6:30 pm (L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas 13)
Monday, June 20th, 4:45 pm (L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas 13)
Wednesday, June 22nd, 9:50 pm (L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas 14)
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What price would you pay for paradise? And who would you be willing to take it from? Panama is one of the most sought after real estate destinations in the world. The archipelago of Bocas del Toro, a gem hidden away in the Caribbean side of Panama, attracts retirees and developers from the US with its crystal clear waters and luscious trees.
Filmmaker, Anayansi Prado, returns to her homeland to document the effects the fast-growing migration of American retirees and developers to Bocas del Toro is having on the local community. PARAISO FOR SALE explores issues of modern day colonialism, residential tourism and global gentrification and reveals that migration between Latin America and the US is not just a one-way street. For more information about the film, please visit the filmmaker’s website at: www.paraisoforsale.weebly.com.
UNFINISHED SPACES
Director: Alysa Nahmias/Benjamin Murray
Documentary/84 Minutes
Sunday, June 19th, 4:00 pm (L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas 10)
Friday, June 24th, 7:00 pm (L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas 14)
Saturday, June 25th, 1:20 pm (L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas 13)
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In 1961, in the heady first days of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro asked three visionary architects to build the Cuban National Arts Schools on what had been the golf course of a country club. Before they construction was completed, the Revolution became Sovietized, and suddenly the project was denounced as bourgeoise and counter-revolutionary. The story has many more fascinating twists and turns, as these radical, magnificent buildings become a prism through which we see the turbulent, ever-shifting history of Castro’s Cuba and follow the fates of the three architects, now in their 80s, who would get a second chance to revitalize their utopian project. For more information about the film, please visit the filmmaker’s website at: www.ajnafilm.com.
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