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NYC, Support Independent Rican Radical Films : Machetero

9:47 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events| Media| Movies| New York City · No Comments

20 Oct 2009

Our own Bianca Laureano reviewed the independent film Machetero over on her site a few months ago. I haven’t yet seen the film (single mamis with toddlers and movies rarely mix) pero as Bianca’s latest review on VL demonstrates, popular support of independent films coming out of our communities is important. I got this email from Vagabond, creator of Machetero.

MACHETERO is back in NYC after the Irish premiere and award last month. It will be playing as a part of the New York International Independent Film And Video Festival Thursday, October 29th @ 8PM.

i just received word that if we sell out the MACHETERO screening on Thurs. Oct. 29th @ 8PM we will get a 2nd screening. However we need to sell out the theater by this Fri. Oct. 9th. The theater seats 150 people… Can we do it?

Let’s try! Buy your tickets now to this 1st screening and let’s gets a 2nd screening of MACHETERO scheduled! Let’s show and prove NYC that self-financed, independent, artistic, politically minded films about the de-colonization of a Latin American nation has an audience in NYC…

If 75 people could step up and bring someone else with them to the screening… (who likes going to the movies alone?) we could make this goal of selling out this screening (150 seats) of MACHETERO before Friday the 9th.

Purchase tickets here

Hoy en NYC : Film About Ricans and Palestine

9:46 am By Maegan La Mala · Events| Movies| New York City| Palestine| Puerto Rico · Comments Off

17 Jan 2009

Cemí Underground
1799 Lexington Avenue at 112th St., El Barrio, NYC
Saturday, January 17 at 3:00 PM
Contribution: $5.00
212-860-2820

Cemí Underground is an amazing, independently owned and operated community store and space in el barrio (and not just cuz I’ve read there and know the owners).

Where Are the Films About Us?

1:10 am By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment| Movies · 1 Comment

23 Dec 2005

“What type of films do Latinos want to see?” That is a question that I ask myself all the time. Are Latinos in the United States genuinely interested in films about Latinos or would they rather just watch the typical Hollywood movie? For those Latinos that speak mostly Spanish would they like the option to watch English language movies with subtitles? Would these Latinos consider watching movies made by Latinos that touch on Latino themes?

We really need to make a concerted effort to support Latino movies so that films about Latinos continue to get made.

Latino movies, done in the United States and geared for our consumption before heading out to parts unknown and DVD, are not blockbusters. That is due to the fact that while they might be great films, most folks don’t see them. Why? Small budgets. This leads to small, unimpressive special effects or none at all, thus their unpopularity.

Via / Inside Bay Area

la Cantante Doesn’t Want Extras

8:06 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Chismes| TV · 1 Comment

21 Dec 2005

You can’t get one over on la Lopez. An extra on the set of the Hector Lavoe movie, El Cantante was singled out by Jennifer Lopez and thrown off the New York City set. This was no ordinary extra though. The extra was Angel Villagómez, a bochinche reporter from Escándalo TV, a gossip show on the Telefutura network. JLo recognized Villagómez and asked that he be removed from the set.

Via / Univision.com

Another Che film

10:05 am By Maegan La Mala · Movies · 15 Comments

23 Nov 2005

From rock concerts, to soccer games, to college dorm rooms, Che Guevara’s image can be found everywhere and is one of the most recognizable icons in the world.

The revolutionary’s image has been co-opted lately though. From Mike Tyson and Diego Maradona sporting tattoos of him to the rapper Jay-Z wearing t-shirts and saying things like “I’m Che with bling on.” Absurd I say. Che must be rolling in his grave.

To make matters worse, Hollywood is taking another shot at the life of Che (I must admit, the Motorcycle Diaries was a great film) with Benecio del Toro playing the part of the Argentine revolutionary. I’m still not quite sure if another Che movie is a good thing. Will this spread “the revolution” or simply water it down? At least the actor that will play Che in this new film is doing his homework.

Benecio del Toro visited Argentina to learn more of the life of the guerrilla leader “Che” Guevara and meet with Carlos “Calica” Ferrer, a childhood friend of Che.

Via / La Opinión

Someone Please Stop the Vacilón

1:10 pm By Maegan La Mala · Movies| radio · 3 Comments

20 Oct 2005

La Mega’s el Vacilón de la Mañana morning radio show is apparently so popular that a movie version oh so smartly titled, El Vacilón: The Movie, will be hitting the big screen soon. The Spanish language radio show is based out of NYC’s WKSQ 97.9 FM aka la Mega radio station. It is a mix of vulgar and insulting jokes and schoolyard pranks mixed in with morning news, traffic, with an merengue or bachata thrown in. Hosted by two Rican characters, Luis Jimenez and Moonshadow, the show is currently syndicated in New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Boston, Hartford, Philadelphia, Tampa and Orlando. So there is an audience ripe and ready for the film which also features actor Paul Rodríguez and spoken word artista Caridad De La Luz aka “La Bruja”.

I’ll admit to having heard the show a few times years ago. I will admit to chuckling during the “Caiste!” segment, where people are pranked called. The rest of the show, which from what I can tell hasn’t changed since the years I last listened, plays to the lowest sense of Latino humor. Everything is wrapped in sexual double entendres and the comedic skits tend to be based in stereotypes and insults about Latino lesbians, gay men, African-Americans, dark-skinned Latinos, Jews, and South Asian immigrants. Women are treated with misogynist jokes.

The film opens tomorrow , October 21.

el Vacilón de la Mañana website

Innocent Voices Speaks of War and Childhood

1:17 pm By Maegan La Mala · Movies · 3 Comments

13 Oct 2005

Not all childhoods are innocent. More than 300,000 children are serving in armies in over 40 countries. The feature length film, Innocent Voices, tells the story of one such child in El Salvador. Eleven-year-old Chava, the main character of the film, has just one year before he will be called to fight the government’s battle against the peasant rebels. Chava enjoys his last year of innocence looking for work to help his single mom and falling in love with a classmate. What makes this story especially compelling is the fact that it is based on the real life childhood of screenwriter Oscar Torres.

Innocent Voices, rated R, opens tomorrow, October 14, in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Miami, and Philadelphia. In Chicago it opens October 21 and other cities on November 4.

It’s important to support films written by, directed by, and acted by Latinos, especially independent films that tell our stories, in our voices.

Innocent Voices

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