CineNoche: IGUALADA
This month’s CineNoche screening at Violet Crown Cinema features a Cine Las Americas International Film Festival encore of IGUALADA, the 2024 Jury Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature. Join us in celebration of the film’s subject matter- black women in political leadership in Latin America!
IGUALADA
A film by Juan Mejía Botero
Colombia/Mexico/USA, 2024
Afro-Latin@/Documentary/Politics, 81 min
Spanish with English subtitles
Event Details
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 @ 7pm
Violet Crown Cinema, 434 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
$13.50 (Free for CLA members. Contact gabriel@cinelasamericas.org for more information.)
Synopsis
In Colombia, a nation marred by profound racial and socio-economic disparities, a Black woman from a rural background challenges the status quo by launching a presidential campaign. Reappropriating the term “igualada,” Francia Márquez, catapults a movement to the upper echelons of power, by refusing to “know her place.” Fifteen years in the making, this documentary peels back the curtain on how unprecedented change can happen.
The CineNoche film series is presented in partnership with Violet Crown Cinema. Violet Crown is committed to celebrating and preserving the magic of cinema. From new releases to timeless classics, they present films from across the entire cinematic spectrum to bring extraordinary films to the screen and to the community.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.