Monday, April 16
(Free and open to the public) 
6:00 pm: Dominican Shorts
Presenting a series of short films participating at the 2011 Dominican Global Film Festival.
7:30 pm: Panel From the Script to the Screen
A panel of four professionally diverse screenwriters and moderated by screenwriter Ángel Lara will discuss, among other topics: - Genre vs. Auteur cinema, the importance of audience (the spectator) and the elements involved in the creative process.
- The importance of the 'triangular' writer-director-producer relationship. How to deal with difficult directors and producers' commercial demands.
- Screenwriter for hire vs. Auteur scripts.
- Literary adaptations and historical narratives, and taking creative freedom in telling this stories.
The Screenwriters: Pablo Solarz, Jairo Carrillo, Ana Katz, Marco Dutra, and moderated by Ángel Lara, Screenwriter and Professor at New School.
Following the panel, HFFNY celebrates the creation of FUNAVE New York with a cocktail party.
Reception Co-sponsored by Copacabana Grill. |
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Wednesday, April 18
(Free and Open to the Public)
 6:00 pm: Documentary: The 100 Cuban Sones (80min) Edesio Alejandro. Cuba. NY Premiere. Director present for Q&A.
7:40 pm: Documentary: To be Human Being HFFNY will premiere one episode of the six full-length documentaries that are part of To be a Human Being, a series made in eight diverse communities around the world by young filmmakers from film schools in seven different countries. *Introduction by Rafael Rosal, Director of the International Film and TV School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba and Laura Cardona, filmmaker and Grad Student from City College, NY. Thursday, April 19 (Free and Open to the Public) 7:00 pm: A Night of Different Voices
As part of the indigenous series, films made by Totonacan (Mexico) and Mayan (Guatemala) filmmakers will be shown at the festival. Most of these films have never been screened in the United States before.
8:00 pm: Panel: History and Social Memory, A Self-Reflection from Latin American Cinema
A panel of directors, moderated by Javier Rioyo of the Instituto Cervantes, will discuss, among other topics:
- Indigenous communities and political ideology
- Subaltern voices and hegemonic discourses
- Visibility and representation of subgroups in the media
- Perception and memory of violence within the official history of a country
- Reconciling war crimes and restorations from ethnic, religious, and gender perspectives
- Interrogating imagined communities in (post)colonized economies and their relationship to the State
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