Free Film Screening at UCLA: Women's Voices: Heaven & Miriam Lies- Incl. Reception and Q&A with both directors

7th UCLA Latin American, Latinx, and Iberian Film Festival: “Women’s Voices”

WHAT: Double Feature: Free Screening of HEAVEN (Cielo de agua, Margarita Poseck Menz and Eugenia Poseck, Chile, 2018) and MIRIAM LIES (Miriam miente; Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, Dominican Republic and Spain, 2018) followed by Q&A with directors. Reception before the screening at 6:30.  Films in Spanish with English subtitles.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 16th, 2019 at 7:30 pm
WHERE: James Bridges Theatre

MIRIAM LIES: As her 15th birthday approaches, Miriam doesn't know how to explain to her family that the boyfriend she met online is black.—ImDb

A biracial teenager's various crises of identity are delicately disentangled in Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada's promising first narrative feature.

—VARIETY on MIRIAM LIES

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uWHjhDJSFI&t=23s (MIRIAM LIES)

CIELO DE AGUA: Ella cruza los bosques y la vieja casona con la liviandad de los que ya no están, para abrirnos puertas y ventanas; para abrirnos fragmentos de otra historia que a la vez es su propia historia. El bosque húmedo la recibe y muestra una cara desconocida: cintas blancas rodean sus árboles y anuncian su destino trágico. En el interior de la casona, Ingrid, su anciana madre, junto a sus fieles criados, dan su última batalla. Mientras, enfrente, del otro lado del río, el sonido de las máquinas taladoras se acrecienta anunciando el final sin retorno, de un tiempo condenado a desaparecer para siempre.
—Poseckfilms

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTtwuKamKDc (HEAVEN) 

**Ticketing for reservations will begin at 6:30 PM. Reservations are ONLY VALID UNTIL 7:00 PM. After 7:00 PM, the standby line will be admitted on a first come, first served basis.**

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?

Directions and Parking
1. From Hilgard Ave. enter the east side of campus at Wyton Dr.
2. Make and immediate right turn onto Charles E. Young Dr. East and signs will direct you to Parking Structure 3.
3. From the ground level of Structure 3, enter the underpass (or from the street level cross Charles E. Young Dr. North and proceed down steps) and walk straight alongside Melnitz and Macgowan Halls.
4. Turn left at the plaza and proceed to the courtyard of theaters.

  https://transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

collado83@g.ucla.edu

Event co-sponsored by: 
UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Dean’s Discretionary Fund- UCLA Humanities Division; Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Funds- UCLA Humanities Division; Melnitz Movies; the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies; UCLA Campus Programs Committee; Center for Brazilian Studies; Anderson School of Management, Center for Global Management; Institute for Research on Labor and Employment; Luskin School of Public Affairs; Latin American Institute; Center for Southern Cone Studies; Program for Caribbean Studies; Department of Gender Studies; César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; Department of Germanic Languages; the LGBTQ Studies Program; HLGSA; the Los Tigres del Norte Fund at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

The 7th Annual Latin American, Latinx, and Iberian Film Festival: Women's Voices, organized by the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, celebrates women filmmakers. The four-day festival will feature screenings of twelve films (listed below) from Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain and the United States. The screenings will take place at various venues on the UCLA campus such as the James Bridge Theater and the Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room. All screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with the film directors as well as professors from various departments on campus and will also include a light reception. The opening night will include a screening of “Real Women Have Curves” (United States, 2002), followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Patricia Cardoso, at the James Bridges Theater and the closing night will include a screening of “As boas maneiras” (Brazil 2017), directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, and will be followed by a Q&A with Juliana Rojas. The 7th Annual Latin American, Latinx, and Iberian Film Festival: Women's Voices is organized and presented by the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese and sponsored by various units on campus. The screenings are free and open to the public. For more details on the dates and topics for the screenings, and to register, please visit>> hyperlink to https://www.spanportfilmfest.com/

 The titles and directors attending this year's festival are:

• MIRIAM LIES (Miriam miente, Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, Dominican Republic and Spain, 2018) 

• HEAVEN (Cielo de agua, Margarita Poseck Menz and Eugenia Poseck, Chile, 2018)

• CARMEN & LOLA (Carmen y Lola, Arantxa Echevarría, Spain, 2018)

• THE ETERNALLY UNDOCUMENTED (Los eternos indocumentados, Jennifer A. Cárcamo, USA, 2018)

• GOOD MANNERS (As boas maneiras, Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, Brazil, 2017)  
  

• SLEEPOVER (La invitación, Susana Casares, Spain, 2016)  
  

• TRYOUTS (Susana Casares, USA, 2013)  
  

• MY MOTHER'S HANDS (Amaren eskuak, Mireia Gabilondo, Spain, 2013)  
  

• MOSQUITA Y MARI (Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA, 2012)  
  

• 2501 MIGRANTS: A JOURNEY (Reencuentros: 2501 migrantes, Yolanda Cruz, Mexico, 2009)   
  

• WELCOME MR. KAITA (Bienvenido Mister Kaita, Albert Albacete and Helena Medina, Spain, 2006)  
  

• REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES (Patricia Cardoso, USA, 2002)