PROGRAM

Series Curator: Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English
riverrunbuffalo.org: Director Patrick Martin
Directors: Jake Sanders, Jocelyn E. Marshall, and Brent Cox

Wednesday, October 10

4:00-5:50pm | Border Experimentations. El Mar la Mar. Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki, 2017 (1 hr 35 mins). Introduced by Ekrem Serdar, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.

6:00-7:50pm | Restored Classics Night I. Time to Die (Tiempo De Morir). Arturo Ripstein, 1966 (1hr 30 mins). Screenplay by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. Restoration Company: Alameda Films. Introduced by: Bruce Jackson, Buffalo Film Seminars/SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture, English, UB.

8:15-10:00pm | LGBTQ Films/Women Filmmakers. Smuack, Alejandra Sánchez, 2015 (24 mins); Casa Roshell, Camila José Donoso, 2017 (1hr 11 mins). Introduced by Ana Grujic, Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project.

Thursday, October 11

4:00-5:45pm | Observational Mode: Mexico and Minors. The Inheritors (Los Herederos), Eugenio Polgosvky, 2008 (1 hr 30 mins). Introduction by: Meg Knowles, Television and Film Arts, SUNY Buffalo State. In memory of of Eugenio Polgovsky and dedicated to the children separated from their parents on the US-Mexico border.

6:30-7:30pm | Keynote Lecture. “Mexico’s Contemporary Bi-National Cinema: From Migrations to Co-Productions.” Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis. Prado will focus on contemporary Mexican cinema as a bi-national endeavor that includes telling migration stories, the migration of Mexican filmmakers to the United States, and the way in which Mexican cinema builds transnational audiences.

7:45-9:30pm | Restored Classics Night II. Two Monks (Dos Monjes), Juan Bustillo Oro, 1934 (1 hr 25 mins). Restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation. Introducion by Margarita Vargas, Romance Languages and Literatures, UB.

Friday, October 12

2:00-3:50pm | Buñuel in Mexico. A Mexican Buñuel, Emilio Maillé, 1995 (55 mins). Courtesy of Emilio Maillé; Simon of the Desert(Simón del desierto), Luis Buñuel, 1965 (45 mins). Introduced by Elizabeth Scarlett, Romance Languages and Literatures, UB.

4:00-5:30pm | Risky Territories. Devil’s Freedom (La Libertad Del Diablo), Ernesto Gonzales, 2017 (1 hr 15 mins). Introduced by Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis.

5:30-7:00pm | Happy Hour. Music by La Marimba. Mexican-inspired cuisine available at the Burchfield Cafe. La Marimba, led by Tiffany Nicely, brings their original flair to traditional marimba music of Mexico and Central America. Dancing grooves, catchy tunes, and witty improvisation keep audiences enraptured. Cash Bar.

5:30-7:30pm | Coco Hour (Studio Classroom): Día de Muertos Arts and Crafts Workshop. Run by: Mara Odette Guerrero, Casa De Arte. Mexican artist Mara Odette Guerrero will discuss the meaning of the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico, linking it to the characters from Disney’s Coco (2017). Guerrero will construct an altar representing the religious and cultural diversity of Mexico. The participants will be encouraged to make arts and crafts for the altar, such as Masks, Cempazuchil Flowers, and Papel Picado banners.

5:30pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm | Book Reading for Children (Collection Study). Coco Book (2017), Disney/Pixar. Living in Mexico (2016), Chloe Perkins. Off We Go to Mexico (2008), Laurie Krebs. Book Readers: Rebekah White and Daniel Perlino, UB English. During this book reading, children will learn more about Mexico and its cultural traditions.

7:00-8:50pm | Documenting/Animating the Border and Other Stories: Shorts. Ties, Not Walls (Lazos, No Muros), LuisPa Salmón, 2017 (1min); Creativity Does Not Recognize Borders (La creatividad no reconoce muros), Fernando Campos, 2017 (2mins); Endogamy (Endogamia, 2017), Arnold Abadie (2 mins) ; Best of Luck with the Wall, Josh Begley, 2016 (7 mins) ; Love, Our Prison, Carolina Corral, 2016 (6 mins); The Good Mother (La Madre Buena), Sarah Clift, 2017 (6 mins); Symphony of a Sad Sea(Sinfonía de un mar triste), Carlos Morales, 2017 (11 min); Birth on the Border, Ellie Lobovitz, 2017 (27 mins); Artemio, Sandra Luz López Barroso, 2017 (48 mins).

9:00-10:00pm | Borders/Immigration Panel and Mexican Poetry. This panel will begin with a recital of Mexican Poetry by Mara Odette Guerrero. Facilitated by: Richard Reitsma, Canisius College. Participants: Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis; Abigail Cooke, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo; Irene Rekhviashvili, Journey’s End Refugee Services; Jennifer Connor, Justice for Migrant Families; Alyssa Erazo, ECBA Volunteer Lawyers, New York Immigrant Family Unity Project; Monica Wrobel, Canisius College/“Latinitas” Project; Mara Odette Guerrero, Casa De Arte, Secil Ertorer, Canisius College.

Free admission made possible this year by riverrun and the Burchfield Penney Art Center
Mexican inspired cuisine available at the Burchfield Café

ABOUT THE SERIES: The riverrun Global Film Series aspires to create a dialogue between local community and institutions of higher education in Buffalo through a selection of films that provide a better understanding of our present existence in the globalized networked world. The series is designed to present a capsulized glimpse into a chosen cinematic tradition.