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The 22nd Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
May 1 – 5, 2019

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Cine Las Americas presents a selection of eighteen narrative and eight documentary features by the finest emerging and established filmmakers to audiences in Central Texas. This year’s selections represent eighteen 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
OPENING NIGHT: Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire	OPENING NIGHT: Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire	Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya	USA	88 min
CLOSING NIGHT: No me digas solterona	CLOSING NIGHT: Don’t Call Me a Spinster	Ani Alva Helfer	Peru	110 min
América	América	Erick Stoll, Chase Whiteside	USA	76 min
Boni Bonita	Boni Bonita	Daniel Barosa	Brazil / Argentina	83 min
Cómprame un revólver	Buy Me a Gun	Julio Hernández Cordón	Mexico/Colombia	84 min
Councilwoman	Councilwoman	Margo Guernsey	USA	57 min
El baile de la gacela	The Gazelle’s Dance	Iván Porras Meléndez	Costa Rica / Mexico	90 min
El pueblo soy yo: Venezuela en populismo	I Am the People: Venezuela Under Populism	Carlos Oteyza	Venezuela / Mexico	87 min
El silencio de otros	The Silence of Others	Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar	Spain / USA / Canada / France	96 min
Empty Metal	Empty Metal	Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer	USA	85 min
Enigma	Enigma	Ignacio Juricic Merillán	Chile	83 min
Falls Around Her	Falls Around Her	Darlene Naponse	Canada	100 min
Harvest Season	Harvest Season	Bernardo Ruiz	USA	83 min
Huachicolero	The Gasoline Thieves	Edgar Nito Arrache	Mexico / USA / UK / Spain	94 min
La camarista	The Chambermaid	Lila Avilés	Mexico	102 min
Lo que siento por ti	What I Feel for You	Raúl Camilo	Dominican Republic	90 min
Mamacita	Mamacita	José Pablo Estrada Torrescano	Mexico / Germany	75 min
Rojo	Rojo	Benjamin Naishtat	Argentina / Brazil / France / Netherlands / Germany	109 min
Rutas en febrero	Roads in February	Katherine Jerkovic	Canada / Uruguay	83 min
Segunda estrella a la derecha	Second Star to the Right	Ruth Caudeli	Colombia	82 min
Singing Our Way to Freedom	Singing Our Way to Freedom	Paul Espinosa	USA	87 min
Socrates	Socrates	Alexandre Moratto	Brazil	71 min
Tarde para morir joven	Too Late to Die Young	Dominga Sotomayor	Chile / Brazil / Argentina / Netherlands / Qatar	110 min
Temporada	Long Way Home	André Novais Oliveira	Brazil	113 min
Vientos del sur	Southern Winds	Franco García Becerra	Peru	79 min
Windows on the World	Windows on the World	Michael D.  Olmos	USA	108 min
Narrative Feature Competition
Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five films from emerging and promising talent, including selections from all over the Americas in a variety of genres and forms. All films in this category represent first or second narrative features by the directors. 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
Collisions	Collisions	Richard Levien	USA	90 min
Guerra de Algodão	The Cotton Wool War	Marília Hughes, Cláudio Marques	Brazil	82 min
Medea	Medea	Alexandra Latishev	Costa Rica / Chile / Argentina	76 min
Ocho de cada diez	Eight out of Ten	Sergio Umansky Brener	Mexico	108 min
The Grizzlies	The Grizzlies	Miranda de Pencier	Canada	104 min
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 often 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
Bakosó: AfroBeats de Cuba	Bakosó: AfroBeats of Cuba	Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi	Cuba / USA	52 min
El silencio es un cuerpo que cae	Silence Is a Falling Body	Agustina Comedi	Argentina	76 min
Midnight Family	Midnight Family	Luke Lorentzen	Mexico	90 min
Nos llaman guerreras	They Call Us Warriors	Jennifer Socorro, Edwin Corona Ramos, David Alonso	Venezuela / USA / Mexico / Jordan	81 min
Warrior Women	Warrior Women	Elizabeth Castle, Christina D. King	USA	65 min
Hecho en Tejas
Cine Las Americas presents “Hecho en Tejas,” a series of films and videos shot and/or produced in Texas, to showcase the wide variety of work being produced in the state by filmmakers with varied backgrounds. One feature film and seven short films are scheduled during this year’s festival. The films are eligible for an Audience Award. For the tenth consecutive year, Cine Las Americas is pleased to partner 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
Bentley’s Will	Bentley’s Will	Zachary P Grigg	USA	83 min
Cake	Cake	Esmeralda Hernandez	USA	9 min
Cantina	Cantina	Erik Mauck, Daniel Reyes, Paul Del Bosque	USA	19 min
First Generation	First Generation	Aaron Chávez	USA	5 min
Plane Pretend	Plane Pretend	Sharon Arteaga	USA	18 min
The Bubbleman	The Bubbleman	Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda	USA	9 min
This Feels Like a Setup	This Feels Like a Setup	Patrick Higgins	USA	10 min
West of Leona	West of Leona	Christopher James Thompson	USA	16 min
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. The films may be short in length but not in scope. From the deeply personal to the broadly universal, each film tackles subjects and tells stories that will resonate with viewers long after their runtime ends. These films will open for features during the festival, and are eligible for a Jury Award for Best Narrative Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Hombre	Hombre	Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz	Chile	21 min
ĩuja ɓekea	Swamp	Juan Sebastián Mesa	Colombia	17 min
Lo cotidiano	The Usual	David Lara	Spain	10 min
Me 3.796	Me 3.796	Elaine Del Valle	USA	9 min
O Órfão	The Orphan	Carolina Markowicz	Brazil	15 min
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. The films may be short in length but not in scope, and represent individual and community topics and concerns in their contemporary contexts. These films will open for features during the festival, and are eligible for a Jury Award for Best Documentary Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
A Cabeça e a Mão	The Head & the Hand	Marc Serpa Francoeur	Portugal / Canada	23 min
Abrázame	Abrázame	Jas Doyle Pitt	Bolivia / UK	26 min
El vuelo de Michael	Michael’s Flight	Jesús de Frutos Ayaso	Spain	19 min
Fast Horse	Fast Horse	Alexandra Lazarowich	Canada	13 min
La Flaca	The Bony Lady	Adriana Barbosa, Thiago Zanato	USA / Brazil / Mexico	20 min
Lourdes Portillo Retrospective
In collaboration with Violet Crowne Cinemas, Cine Las Americas presents a retrospective of work by acclaimed filmmaker and activist Lourdes Portillo. The selection includes three works by Lourdes, each with its own style and concern, commemorative of significant moments in American history. While these films all reference tragedies, they each also speak to the strengths inherent in human nature to ultimately survive, thrive, and celebrate life.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Columbus on Trial	Columbus on Trial	Lourdes Portillo	USA	18 min
Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena	Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena	Lourdes Portillo	USA	47 min
Vida	Vida	Lourdes Portillo	USA	18 min
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. The documentary films in this series tackle issues that resonate not only in Mexico, but also internationally. The films selected reflect both organizations’ missions, in particular, support of documentary filmmaking as a means to promote discourse around important contemporary issues.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
A morir a los desiertos	To Die in the Deserts	Marta Ferrer Carné	Mexico	90 min
Hasta los dientes	Armed to the Teeth	Alberto Arnaut Estrada	Mexico	105 min
Femme Frontera
In collaboration with Femme Frontera, Cine Las Americas presents the 2018 Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase. The selection includes women filmmakers from all over the world who challenge stereotypes and false perspectives about immigration, displacement, and our environment. The Femme Frontera showcase compliments Cine Las Americas’ mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding by expanding the regions of the world that are represented in this year’s programs.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
7 Planets	7 Planets	Milda Baginskaite	UK	6 min
Before I Forget	Before I Forget	Razan Hassan	Syrian Arab Republic	11 min
Birth on the Border	Birth on the Border	Ellie Lobovits	USA/Mexico	24 min
En la Frontera del Arte	On the Margins of Art	Miranda Harris-Martinez, Mike Curran	USA/Mexico	15 min
Hashtł’ishnii	Mud	Shaandiin Tome	USA	9 min
Salt in Wounds	Salt in Wounds	Alison Adriano	Australia	10 min
Official Selection Panorama
Cine Las Americas presents a diverse array of important films, which we consider essential to share with Central Texas audiences. This year’s Panorama short film selection includes twelve titles including narrative, documentary, experimental, animated, comedy, and drama. These short films compliment the features and, like the rest of the program, showcase a variety of traditionally underrepresented cultures and issues, personal experiences, new perspectives, and aesthetic innovation.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
After the Silence	After the Silence	Natalie Cubides-Brady	UK / Colombia	28 min
Ánima	Ánima	Fátima Tamayo Anchuelo	Spain	2 min
Bolas Criollas	Creole Balls	Juan Vicente Manrique, Vittorio Dugarte Barbarito	Venezuela	12 min
Contramaré	Contramaré	Daniel Marenco	Brazil	29 min
Es confuso	It’s Confusing	Matthew Bernard	Cuba / USA	5 min
Hooghan	Home	Blackhorse Lowe	USA	11 min
Libre	Libre	Anna Barsan	USA	12 min
San Miguel	San Miguel	Cris Gris	Mexico / USA	18 min
Sin vergüenza	Without Shame	David E. Valdez	USA	13 min
Sweetheart Dancers	Sweetheart Dancers	Ben-Alex Dupris	USA	14 min
The Ronaldo-over	The Ronaldo-over	Hugh Mitton	UK / Portugal	11 min
Wakcha	Wakcha	Pierre G. Llanos	Peru	20 min
Music Videos
Cine Las Americas presents a selection of fifteen music videos, representing diverse genres of music and filmmaking styles. The selection includes a set of five music videos in competition; five music videos in official selection, non-competition; and a special presentation of videos by the Colombian-based production company Oro Pictures. The competition selections are eligible for an Audience Award for Best Music Video.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
All I Can Say	All I Can Say	Hugo Rubiano	Colombia	5 min
Atiza	Atiza	Arturo Segoviano	Mexico / USA	3 min
Conexión	Conexión	Hugo Rubiano	Colombia	3 min
Fantasia	Fantasia	Caitlin Díaz	USA	4 min
Hoy para siempre	Hoy para siempre	Hugo Rubiano	Colombia	5 min
La Diaspora	La Diaspora	Cutter Hodierne	USA / Mexico	7 min
La Llorona	The Weeping Woman	Tanya Marin	USA	5 min
La sombra	La sombra	Hugo Rubiano	Colombia	4 min
La Victoria	La Victoria	Lido Pimienta, Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea	Canada / Colombia	4 min
Marinos	Marinos	Omar Zuñiga	Chile	4 min
Obsidiana	Obsidiana	Camilo Coba Riofrio	Ecuador	5 min
Por encima	Above Mountains	Camilo Iguarán, Liliana Conde Sierra	Colombia / USA	5 min
Santuario	Sanctuary	Alex Palma	USA	4 min
Una Casita	A Little Home	Tatiana del Fuego	USA	4 min
Veneno	Veneno	Hugo Rubiano	Colombia	4 min
360º Video Presentation
In collaboration with Originator Studios, for the third year in a row, Cine Las Americas presents a vr360 / 360º video selection. This year we are pleased to present two works in different genres: the documentary “Lionhearted” by German-Bolivian director Ricarda Saleh, and the music video “Tragicomedia” by CLAIFF alum Vadim Lasca from Venezuela.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Lionhearted	Lionhearted	Ricarda Saleh	Germany	12 min
Tragicomedia	Tragicomedia	Vadim Lasca	Venezuela	5 min
CineClub México
CineClub México was founded in September of 2018 by a collective of partnering organizations and individuals interested in promoting Mexican film in Austin, Texas, through monthly screenings. Each screening is accompanied by an invited guest who holds a Q&A with attendees after the film. As a founding member of CineClub México, Cine Las Americas is proud to include in the festival lineup a copresentation of a documentary by the acclaimed filmmaker Everardo González.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Los ladrones viejos: Las leyendas del artegio	Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio	Everardo González	Mexico	97 min
Emergencia Youth Film Festival
Cine Las Americas presents the 2019 Emergencia Youth Film Festival Screening and Showcase. As a celebration of filmmakers on the rise, the Emergencia Youth Film Festival represents a special section of the festival showcasing works by filmmakers 19 years of age or younger. This year’s program includes special presentations by members of this year’s Youth Jury from Latinitas and E4 Youth. The Emergencia Youth Film Festival competition lineup represents a selection of seventeen titles from the USA and abroad. The films in competition are eligible for an audience award for “Best Emergencia Youth Film.”
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Abstinencia	Abstinence	Exe Thawne	Cordoba, Argentina	7 min
Dear Introvert	Dear Introvert	Karla Mejia	Lynn, MA, USA	4 min
Diegesis	Diegesis	Gabriel Ricardo, Angulo Vizcarra	Lima, Peru	7 min
Dreaming	Dreaming	Sage Nelsen	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	5 min
Elote Empire	Elote Empire	Nicole Ramon, Sean Padin, Giana Rios, Lilian Martinez	San Antonio, TX, USA	1 min
God of Cocoa	God of Cocoa	Maddie Toland, Marcelo Salas, Bacla Siptak, Bjorgvin Arnarson	San Antonio, TX, USA	1 min
I’m Human Too	I’m Human Too	Jonathan Landeros	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	9 min
Internship Opportunities with E4 Youth	Internship Opportunities with E4 Youth	E4 Youth Team	Austin, TX, USA	2 min
Latinas We Admire	Latinas We Admire	Latinitas Clubs	Austin, TX, USA	2 min
Lilly and the Baby	Lilly and the Baby	The Bum Family	Calgary, AB, Canada	7 min
My Black Is…	My Black Is…	Miguel Valdez, Eunice Beato	Lynn, MA, USA	6 min
My Heart Can’t Speak the Way I Want It To	My Heart Can’t Speak the Way I Want It To	Angel Saenz	Austin, TX, USA	5 min
Piece of Mind	Piece of Mind	Noel Pichardo	Lynn, MA, USA	3 min
Separados	Separated	Aylin Martinez Barrera	Austin, TX, USA	2 min
South Central State of Mind	South Central State of Mind	Timur Bootzin	Los Angeles, CA, USA	5 min
Still Love	Still Love	Alexander Puga, Monica Matute	Miami, FL, USA	5 min
Sweet Vengeance	Sweet Vengeance	Quinn Wilson	San Antonio, TX, USA	17 min
The Loved Ones	The Loved Ones	Joaquin Gonzalez, Olivia Garces, Jake Cortez	San Antonio, TX, USA	2 min
The Photograph	The Photograph	John Cannizzo, Joaquin Gonzalez, Hannah Wilder	San Antonio, TX, USA	4 min