/ Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Latin American Filmmakers Convene for Documentary Film Event
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An undercurrent of environmental justice and community runs throughout
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Zoe Landi Fontana, The Weekly Journal
he eighth edition of the documentary film screening event Latinoamérica en Nosotrxs will be in Puerto Rico for three days of film, discussion, and presentations. The program runs from May 5 - 7 and will take place at the Archivo General of Puerto Rico. After two years of anticipation and delay caused by the pandemic, the show returns in person and is expected to draw an excited audience. “In its eighth edition, the show continues to be an important platform for local filmmakers to present themselves and share their projects. That’s why coming back in person Latinoamérica was vital. [These] are three en Nosotrxs is set to nights where the public is run from May 5 - 7. invited to [get to know] and enjoy the documentary films that are made in Latin America and Puerto Rico,” said Raúl Abner Samrah, general coordinator of the event. This year, Latinoamérica en Nosotrxs is dedicated to Eduardo Aguiar, the illustrious Puerto Rican documentarian. For almost 30 years, Aguiar has produced and directed films and videos in diverse genres such as drama, commercials, and music, although he mainly works in documentary film-making. On Thursday, May 5, the event will open with a showing of “Retrospective: An Homage to Eduardo Aguiar”.
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The programming of these national and Latin American films tells the story of where our reality surpasses fiction.
Filmmakers In The Latin American Space
The exhibition serves as a space to project and disseminate the work of colleagues from all reaches of Latin America, as well as those from the Puerto Rico Association of Documentarians (AdocPR). Environmental justice and the concept of community feature widely in this eighth edition of the event. “The 8th Latin American Documentary Film Show en Nosotrxs, becomes the voice of communities marginalized by corruption and social inequality,
Rhett Lee García Figueroa President, AdocPR
giving the opportunity to tell of the conditions we live in today, where the threats of climate change, high-energy costs, the pandemic, corruption, gentrification, femicides, and hate crimes are the order of the day continuously,” expressed Rhett Lee García Figueroa, President of AdocPR. The space, which promotes documentary
cinema in all its forms, has presented 57 Puerto Rican and Latin American documentaries to the public in its years of action. This year’s event will show full-length feature films - including ones from Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina - and short documentary films by Puerto Rican filmmakers selected through the annual call. “The programming of these national and Latin American films tells the story of where our reality surpasses fiction. We, as Puerto Ricans, Latin Americans, and citizens of the world, must open the discussion and educate present and future generations about what happened in our time in history”, Figueroa emphasized. The event is free and open to the public, both in-person and online. AdocPR, with the support of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP), the Sundance Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, Puerto Rican Foundation for the Humanities, and Óptica Fiber provided funding and support for this celebratory event.
