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OLA Festival Presents Great Films this Weekend as “on the cusp between fiction and documentary,” the film is about a boy whose divorced parents make him a child of two worlds. While most of the films are for families (meaning teenagers and older) Sepulveda said this one, with its fantastic visuals, is appropriate for younger children as well. At 8 p.m. is Entre Nos, a family drama from Columbia about a father who emigrated, leaving his family behind, temporarily. Soon after the family is finally reunited in New York City, the father announces he has found work in Miami and will be moving there—alone. The film tracks the family’s commitment to survival and their unrelenting hope for the
American dream. Saturday films start at 5 p.m. with Only When I Dance, a film that might be called the Brazilian Billy Elliot. It’s about very poor families who go to great lengths to enable two talented students to attend the Centro de Dançça ballet school in Rio de Janeiro. The New York Times critic Mike Hale wrote that the young dancers, “leap off the screen as effortlessly as they fly through the air onstage.” A reception follows the screening. At 6:30 is So Far, a documentary from Ecuador about a woman who struggles to make her way into the United States. The (continued on next page)
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By Susan M. Galardi Isabel Sepulveda-de Scanlon has an agenda for OLA’s Latino Film Festival. Oh yes. She is unabashedly biased when it comes to choosing films for the festival: They have to be good ones. “In the first 20 minutes of watching the film, there has to be something that you connect to,” said Sepulveda, who founded the festival in 2003. “I don’t care if it’s about politics, love, life or art, it just has to be appealing. If you don’t have an immediate connection to the film, it’s nothing.” The festival, at the Parrish Art Museum November 12 and 13, features five awardwinning films from Ecuador, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico and Chile—from comedies to fantasies to documentaries, all with English subtitles. In its seven years, the OLA festival has stayed true to Sepulveda’s concept, a concept that has been embraced by the greater East End community. “At the first festival we had a very small crowd—you could count the people on your fingers. But we had great films, all award winners,” she said. “Last year we had almost 200 people. They walked out of the cinema happy they saw something worth seeing. Over the years, everyone has spread the word.” In addition to the audience growing in size, it grew in diversity. “At the beginning we had a lot of Latinos attending,” said Sepulveda. “Last year, it was 50/50 Latino/Anglo. We thought, ‘Wow, this is what we want.’ It’s for everybody—that’s how you enrich the community.” The price of the festival makes it even more accessible for everyone. A pass for the entire two days of films is just $10. The festival kicks off Friday, Nov. 12, at 6:00 p.m. with a reception including wine from Laurel Lake Vineyards on the North Fork and hors d’oeuvres from Chiquita Latina, Mickey B’s Deli and Dejesus Deli Grocery. The first film, at 6:30, is the Alamar, a fantasy from Mexico. The setting is Banco Chinchorro in the Caribbean, home to Mexico’s largest coral reef and thousands of fish species. Described
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