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From November 1st to 3rd, the festival in the city of Los Angeles will foster dialogue between the Latino community in California and Mexican culture.
The thirteenth edition of the GuadaLAjara Film Festival (GLAFF) will take place from November 1 to 3 in the city of Los Angeles, California, United States of America (USA), with a selection of the best of Mexican and Latin American cinematography and awards to Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and the activist for the rights of Latino people Dolores Huerta, who will receive the “Tree of Life” award.
During the press conference held at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, the Executive Director of GLAFF, Ximena Urrutia, announced that this edition will seek to build bridges with social organizations, with the film industry and with all representatives of the Latino community in this region of the USA.
In addition to the award to Dolores Huerta for her work in support of the rights of the Latino community, the money raised from ticket sales at the screenings will be donated to the foundation that bears her name.
There will also be a tribute to Rodrigo Prieto, known for films such asBarbie,Dog loves,Babel,E,The IrishyBrokeback MountainThese last two films earned him Oscar nominations and helped him break into Hollywood, becoming one of the world’s most prestigious cinematographers. Prieto will hold a masterclass with Oscar-winning production designer Eugenio Caballero, along with Pilar Huerta, forPan’s Labyrinth, in which they will discuss the process of creating visual narratives.
The president of The University of Guadalajara Foundation USA, Professor Luis Gustavo Padilla Montes, emphasized that la Universidad de Guadalajara It has consolidated its presence in the city of Los Angeles for 15 years to expand its educational and cultural services to the Latino community, particularly the Mexican diaspora residing in this region of California. Part of these initiatives has been to promote GLAFF as a window of opportunity that generates a significant impact and fosters closer ties with our communities in Southern California.
“Through these three editions, GLAFF has established itself as a bridge uniting cinematic talent from both sides of the border, so that through perfectly captured images, stories, tragedies, and joys, we manage to forget for a while about walls, distances, and problems, uniting under the same moon in environments to which we all belong, regardless of where we come from,” declared Padilla Montes.
He recalled that this was an effort driven by the former Rector of the UdeG and founder of the festival, Raúl Padilla López, who believed that cinema is the most socializing and communicative instrument that exists along with the book.
Alfredo Achar, the festival’s programming manager, explained that the film *No voy a pedir a nadie que me crea* (I’m Not Going to Ask Anyone to Believe Me), by Mexican director Fernando Frías de la Parra, will open the festival on the evening of November 1st , in a ceremony where Dolores Huerta will also receive her award. That same day, the documentary *Kenya*will be screened , along with the industry premieres of the films *Para vivir, el implacable tiempo de Pablo Milanés* (To Live, the Relentless Time of Pablo Milanés)and*El evangelio según Marcos* (The Gospel According to Mark), which are part of theWork in Progressprogram.
On November 2nd , Mexican-born animator Cruz Contreras, a key figure in the filmSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, will give a masterclass sharing his experience on the project. The documentariesLos Bilbao, by Argentinian Pedro Speroni, andLost Soulz, by American Katherine Propper, will also be screened. A special Day of the Dead gala will feature the legendary 1960filmMacario .
The November 3Maggie Contreras, director of the documentaryTeachers at the Dr. Juan José Osuna Specialized SchoolPedro Speroni, director ofThe Bilbaosand Leandro Motta, editor ofKenyaThey will discuss the art of filming documentaries. There will also be screenings of the films.Women of the dawn, by the Mexican Jimena Montemayor Loyo, inspired by the novel of the same name by the writer Carlos Montemayor; alsoThe erection of Toribio Bardelli, by Peruvian director Adrián Saba, a film that represented his country at the 2024 Oscars;The taste of Christmas, by Mexican director Alejandro Lozano and produced by Salma Hayek Pinault andAll the fires, by Mauricio Calderón Rico.
The festival will close withMaestra, by filmmaker Maggie Contreras , a documentary that portrays the La Maestra international competition for female orchestral conducting, and which premiered at the last edition of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Gustavo Martínez Cianca, consul at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, stated that this festival is eagerly awaited by the public and represents an opportunity for the Los Angeles community to experience the most representative aspects of Mexican cinema, for which he expressed his gratitude to the UdeG Thank you to the Los Angeles-based foundation for making this possible.
“I want to publicly acknowledge the great work that the University of Guadalajara Foundation USA does to promote Mexican culture abroad, to disseminate Latin American, Hispanic American and Ibero-American literature and the learning of the Spanish language; for bringing this effort to Los Angeles, for bringing the best of Mexican cinema to the big screen, as well as films from other countries that participate in this festival,” he said.
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“Piensa y Trabaja”
“2023, Year of promoting comprehensive education with a Network of Multi-thematic Centers and Systems”
Guadalajara, Jalisco, October 17, 2023
Text: Press UdeG
Photography: Fernanda Velazquez | Courtesy of GLAFF
Ximena Urrutia
Luis Gustavo Padilla Montes
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