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The 18th Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
April 22 – 26, 2015

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NEW RELEASES Cine Las Americas presents a selection of twelve narrative and documentary features by the finest emerging and established filmmakers to audiences in Central Texas. This year’s selections represent thirteen countries’ participation in production and co-production of the films, and highlight a diversity of themes, genres and styles characteristic of contemporary national and international cinema trends.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Buscando a Gastón	Finding Gaston	Patricia Perez	USA/ Peru	75
Castanha	Castanha	Davi Pretto	Brazil	95
Dólares de arena	Sand Dollars	Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán	Argentina/ Mexico/ Dominican Republic	82
Feriado	Holiday	Diego Araujo	Ecuador/ Argentina	82
La isla mínima	Marshland	Alberto Rodríguez	Spain	105
La voz en off	Voice Over	Cristián Jiménez	Chile/ France/ Canada	96
Mr. Kaplan	Mr. Kaplan	Álvaro Brechner	Spain/ Uruguay/ Germany	95
The Lodge	The Lodge	Terril Calder	Canada	73
The Martini Shot	The Martini Shot	Demetrius Navarro	USA	86
This May Be the Last Time	This May Be the Last Time	Sterlin Harjo	USA	90
Tres D	Three D	Rosendo Ruíz	Argentina	88
Viejos amigos	Good Old Boys	Fernando Villarán	Peru	93
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five films from emerging and promising talent, including selections from all over the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula in a variety of genres and form. The works screened in this category are eligible for both a jury award and an audience award for Best Narrative Feature.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Climas	Climas	Enrica Pérez	Peru	84
El futuro	The Future	Luis López Carrasco	Spain	67
Los enemigos del dolor	The Enemies of Pain	Arauco Hernandez	Uruguay	82
O Último Cine Drive-in	The Last Drive-in Theater	Iberê Carvalho	Brazil	100
Viento aparte	A Separate Wind	Alejandro Gerber Bicecci	Mexico	100
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five documentaries on a wide variety of topics, representing diversity in audio design, narrative style, and formal technique, with the common thread of including themes and points of view that are underrepresented in popular media. The works screened in this category are eligible for both a jury award and an audience award for Best Documentary Feature.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Gazelle – The Love Issue	Gazelle – The Love Issue	Cesar Terranova	Brazil/ French Polynesia/ USA	93
Hotel Nueva Isla	Hotel Nueva Isla	Irene Gutierrez, Javier Labrador	Cuba/ Spain	71
La Violencia: The Untold Truths of Guatemala	La Violencia: The Untold Truths of Guatemala	Pia Janning, Til Frohlich	Ireland/ Guatemala	69
Poder e impotencia, Un drama en 3 actos	Power and Impotence: A Drama in 3 Acts	Anna Recalde Miranda	Paraguay/ France/ Italy	103
Tres mujeres guerreras	Three Women Warriors	Alexander Preuss	Germany/ Colombia	55
AMBULANTE SHOWCASE Cine Las Americas presents a special showcase in partnership with Ambulante, a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting documentary film as a tool for social and cultural transformation. Each of the three documentary films in this series tackles issues that resonate not only in Mexico but across the border shared between Mexico and the United States. The films selected reflect both organizations’ missions, in particular, support of documentary filmmaking as a means to promote discourse around important contemporary issues.
El hogar al revés	Upside Down Home	Itzel Martínez del Cañizo	Mexico	80
H2Omx	H2Omx	José Cohen, Lorenzo Hagerman	Mexico	72
Retratos de una búsqueda	Portraits of a Search	Alicia Calderón	Mexico	67
HECHO EN TEJAS Cine Las Americas presents “Hecho en Tejas,” a series of films shot and/or produced in Texas, to showcase the wide variety of work being produced in the state by filmmakers with varied backgrounds. Two features, six short films, as well as two music videos are scheduled during this year’s festival. For a sixth consecutive year, Cine Las Americas is pleased to count on a partnership with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) to present a jury award to the best “Hecho en Tejas” film.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Agave is Life	Agave is Life	David Brown, Meredith  Dreiss	USA	60
What’s the Use?	What’s the Use?	Nicole Elmer	USA	83
¿Por qué el recuerdo?	The Solitude of Memory	Juan Pablo González	Mexico/ USA	20
El fuego detrás	The Fire Behind	Leo Aguirre	USA	16
El marinero y la sirena	The Sailor and the Mermaid	Patricia Vonne	USA	4
Jornaleras	Women Workers	Marcela Moran	USA	17
Morgan Robyn Collado	Morgan Robyn Collado	Danea Johnson	USA	5
Sunrise	Sunrise	Diego Rico	USA	10
Whispers and Dreams	Whispers and Dreams	Sharon Arteaga	USA	4
Yo soy Juan	I am Juan	Patrick Rangel	USA	5
PANORAMA FEATURE FILMS Cine Las Americas presents a diverse array of important narrative and documentary feature films, which we consider essential to share with Central Texas audiences. Collectively, the films represent innovative and independent filmmakers in compliment to the rest of the features programs; they showcase a variety of traditionally underrepresented cultures and issues, personal experiences, new perspectives and aesthetic innovation.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Algún lugar	On the Road, Somewhere	Guillermo Zouain	Dominican Republic	70
Anatomía de un vestido	Anatomy of a Dress	Flora Pérez Garay	Puerto Rico	70
Asolagados	Flooded	David Vázquez Vázquez	Spain	60
Ati y Mindhiva	As the Tree Under the Hurricane	Claudia Fischer	Colombia	70
BKLYN 11211	BKLYN 11211	Zac73dragon	Spain/ Bolivia/ USA	76
Chuy, El hombre lobo	Chuy, The Wolf Man	Eva Aridjis	Mexico	94
Dos Aguas	Two Waters	Patricia Velásquez	Costa Rica/ Colombia	70
Flory’s Flame	Flory’s Flame	Curt Fissel	USA	59
Genoveva	Genoveva	Paola Castillo Villagran	Chile	68
Icaros	Icaros	Georgina Barreiro	Argentina/ Peru	71
Les indiens, l’aigle et le dindon	The Indians, the Eagle and the Turkey	Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier, Karine van Ameringen	Canada	50
Movimientos espectaculares	Spectacular Movements	Mateo Hinojosa	Bolivia/ USA/ Venezuela	78
Oil & Water	Oil & Water	Francine Strickwerda, Laurel Spellman Smith	USA	78
Salgán & Salgán: A Father-Son Tango	Salgán & Salgán: A Father-Son Tango	Caroline Neal	Argentina	83
NARRATIVE SHORTS COMPETITION Cine Las Americas presents the narrative short film competition, which represents some of the most powerful and compelling work programmed at the festival, from the abstract to the realistic, the tragic to the comic, and everything in between. These films will open for features throughout the festival, and are eligible for a jury award for Best Narrative Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Bolero para surfear en Moravia	Bolero for Surfing in Moravia	Valerio Mendoza Guillén	Venezuela/ Czech Republic	35
El sermón de la montaña	Sermon on the Mount	Pepe Puertas Piñero	Spain	19
Indigo	Indigo	Amanda Strong	Canada	9
La carta	The Letter	Mara Soler	Mexico	15
Leonard Peres	Leonard Peres	Missy Hernandez	USA	9
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS COMPETITION Cine Las Americas presents the documentary short film competition, which includes some of the most powerful and compelling work programmed at the festival, representing individual and community topics and concerns in their contemporary contexts. These films will open for features throughout the festival, and are eligible for a jury award for Best Documentary Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Dona Rosa	Dona Rosa	Mathias Mangin, Lucas Mandacaru	Brazil	16
Elena Asins – Génesis	Elena Asins – Génesis	Álvaro Giménez Sarmiento	Spain	17
Flor de la mar	Flower of the Sea	Jorge Thielen Armand	Venezuela	24
I Was Born in Mexico, But…	I Was Born in Mexico, But…	Corey Ohama	USA	12
Nuestro hogar	Our Home	Detsy “Mara” Barrigon, Iván Jaripio	Panama	4
MUSIC VIDEOS Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five music videos, representing diverse genres of music and filmmaking styles. Two of the music videos will screen as part of the Hecho en Tejas lineup; three others will open for a feature during the festival. The music videos are eligible for an audience award for Best Music Video.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
C.T.R.L	C.T.R.L	Mariana Conde	United Kingdom	4
La ciudad	The City	Javier Orman, Tom Farrell	USA	4
Nitahkôtân	I Have Arrived	Moe Clark	Canada	3
El marinero y la sirena	The Sailor and the Mermaid	Patricia Vonne	USA	4
Whispers and Dreams	Whispers and Dreams	Sharon Arteaga	USA	4
INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAM Cine Las Americas presents a special retrospective of Indigenous short films, in cooperation with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and with the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) program at the University of Texas at Austin. The selection showcases a number of humor-based short films by Indigenous filmmakers from Canada, Mexico, the continental US and Hawaii.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Día 2	Day 2	Dante Cerano Bautista	Mexico	23
Late	Late	Christi Bertelsen	USA	2
Mohawk Midnight Runners	Mohawk Midnight Runners	Zoe Leigh Hopkins	Canada	16
Poi Dogs	Poi Dogs	Joel Moffett	USA	12
Roberta	Roberta	Caroline Monnet	Canada	9
Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco	Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco	Steven Judd	USA	15
Smoke Break	Smoke Break	Sally Kewayosh	USA	3
PANORAMA SHORT FILMS Cine Las Americas presents a diverse array of important narrative and documentary short films, which we consider essential to share with Central Texas audiences. Collectively, the films represent innovative and independent filmmakers in compliment to the rest of the program; they showcase a variety of traditionally underrepresented cultures and issues, personal experiences, new perspectives and aesthetic innovation.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
2 and 2, are 4	2 and 2, are 4	Pedro Sena Nunes	Portugal	30
Aceito	I do	Felipe Cabral	Brazil	21
Beyond Recognition	Beyond Recognition	Michelle Grace Steinberg	USA	27
Bloodlines	Bloodlines	Christopher Cegielski	USA	11
Caballo de mar	Knight of the Seas	Fernando Alcántara, Iñaki Gaztañaga	Spain	10
Deseo	Desire	Carolina Cortella	Argentina	15
En la orilla	At the Edge	Liza Hoos, Xavier Basurto	Mexico	13
Inch’ Allah	Inch’ Allah	Angélica Romanini	Mexico	14
Nudo	Knot	Juliana Gómez Castañeda	Cuba	10
Soberano papeleo	Sovereign Paperwork	Lala Severi	Uruguay	3
Una pared	A Wall	Javier Ferreiro	Cuba	12
YO, la PEOR de TODAS	I, the WORST of ALL	Francisco Lupini	USA	22
EMERGENCIA Cine Las Americas presents the 2015 Emergencia Youth Film Festival. The program will open with a special program curated by Latinitas, a local non-profit organization, whose mission is to empower young Latinas through media and technology. Following the Latinitas program, the Emergencia Youth Jury members will share the competition lineup with those in attendance; the films in competition are eligible for an audience award for Best Emergencia Youth Film. As a celebration of filmmakers on the rise, the Emergencia Youth Film Competition represents a special section of the festival showcasing works by filmmakers 19 years or younger. This year, the competition was curated by youth from Connally, Pflugerville, and Hendrickson High Schools, located in the greater Austin area.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Cine Joven Latinitas Showcase	Cine Joven Latinitas Showcase	Various	USA
A Harmonious Cacophony	A Harmonious Cacophony	Marielle Boland, Isabela Reid	USA	6
A Pirate’s Life	A Pirate’s Life	Isabella Olaguera, Nick Haaf	USA	4
Can I Help You?	Can I Help You?	Pedro Salles Leite	Brazil	4
Ella	Elle	David Hebrero	Spain	11
Growing	Growing	Allison Coon-Come	Canada	4
Háblame	Talk to Me	Alba Linares	Spain	6
Kayna Wawaiki Jamuni	Now I Come as Your Son	Nicolas Page	Chile	6
La boda de las calaveras	La boda de las calaveras	Ricardo Miguel  Salazar	USA	3
Little Red	Little Red	Wynter Rhys	USA	3
Never Comes Easy	Never Comes Easy	Naate	Canada	4
Pleasant	Pleasant	Miranda Whitus	USA	25
Sin madre	Without A Mother	Buffy Almendares	USA	3
The Lonely Baker	The Lonely Baker	Cyntheara Tham, Allison McInerney, Ayanna Marte	USA	4
The Only Road	The Only Road	Sergio Valencia, Nathan Miguel, Alan Bagh	USA	7