EL CANTANTE
Time: Saturday 8 March 9.00pm
Venue: Chauvel Cinema
Time: Saturday 15 March 9.00pm
Venue: Club Marconi
Director: Leon Ichaso Year: 2007
Country: USA Duration: 110mins
Genre: Feature Language: English
El Cantante celebrates the life and music of the legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Héctor Lavoe, a pioneer of the sound and sensibility that redefined Latin music in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Charting Héctor Lavoe’s rapid rise to success and fame, it reveals the singer not only as an architect of salsa but as its soul; the kind of artist who forges an uncanny emotional bond with his audience. Love, pain, joy, pride, sorrow, endurance: Héctor Lavoe’s singing contained the raw stuff of life as ordinary people.
A labour of love for its stars, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez (both New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent) El Cantante portrays an era when a new sense of national identity and pride took root in Puerto Rican communities across the U.S. Héctor Lavoe’s music provided a soundtrack to that rousing awakening.
Screening with…
PAIN OF THE MACHO
Chauvel Cinema Saturday 8 March 8.45pm
A Latin lover, struggling to find his true companion in life. After years of meaningless sex and one night stands, Macho finally finds the girl of his dreams. Broken hearted he opens up to a stranger at a bar and tells his tale of how he met and lost his ideal woman all in the course of one day…
- Director: Lav Bodnaruk Year: 2007
- Country: Australia Duration: 5mins
- Genre: Short Film Language: English
Awards
GOLD at ACS QLD/NT Awards
AY CARAMBA
Marconi Club Saturday 15 March 9pm
Ay Caramba is a short film about Tony and Phil, two unemployed mates heading anywhere but in the direction society would have them be.
- Director: Tony Munguia Year: 2007
- Country: Australia Duration: 10mins
- Genre: Short Film Language: English
