{"65385":{"#nid":"65385","#data":{"type":"event","title":"1th Annual Latin American Film Festival at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis Friday kicks off the 11th Annual Latin American Film Festival at Georgia Tech!\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFilms\n will be shown the Student Center Theater at 7 PM on Fridays and \nSaturdays for three consecutive weekends.\u0026nbsp; Admission is free and open to\n the public!\u0026nbsp; Please bring yourselves and your friends \u0026amp; family.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFilm Schedule:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFriday, April 8: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Maria\nllena eres de gracias\u0022 (Maria Full of Grace)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountry of\nOrigin: Colombia\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlot Summary: In\na small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen-year-old Maria supports\nher family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a\ntotal lack of perspective on finding a new job, decides to accept the offer\nto work as a drug mule, flying to the U.S. with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her\nstomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESaturday, April\n9: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Mar\nadentro\u0022 (The Sea Inside)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountry of\nOrigin: Spain\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlot Summary:\nThis film tells the life story of Spaniard Ram\u00f3n Sampedro, who fought a 30-year\ncampaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ram\u00f3n\u0027s\nrelationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa,\na local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the\ngift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never\npreviously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ram\u00f3n taught everyone he\nencountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not\nmove himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFriday, April\n15: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Como\nagua para chocolate\u0022 (Like Water for Chocolate)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountry of\nOrigin: Mexico\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlot Summary: In\na forgotten Mexico Tita and Pedro fall in love but are forbidden to marry. Mama\nElena sees Tita\u0027s role as her caretaker for life - no youngest daughter has\never married and her daughter will not be the first to break tradition. Tita\u0027s\nheart breaks when her mother instead offers to Pedro her other daughter, and he\naccepts. Now they live in the same house, and Mama Elena cannot forbid their\nlove as she did their marriage.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESaturday, April\n16: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022\u00d4nibus\n174\u0022 (Bus 174)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountry of\nOrigin: Brazil\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlot Summary:\nThis documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000,\nwhen bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the\npassengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and\ntragic-ending event became one of violence\u0027s most shocking portraits, and one\nof the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFriday, April\n22:\n\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Valent\u00edn\u0022 (Valentin)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountry of\nOrigin: Argentina\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlot Summary: An\neight-year-old boy named Valentin living with his grandmother in Buenos Aires\nin the late 1960s discovers that his family has problems that only he can\nsolve. Specifically, he dreams of being reunited with his mother, who is\nseparated from Valentin\u0027s abusive father who uses him to attract new\ngirlfriends like the attractive Leticia, whom Valentin himself befriends.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESaturday, April\n23: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Voces\ninocentes\u0022 (Innocent Voices)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountry of\nOrigin: El Salvador\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlot Summary: A\nyoung boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980\u0027s El Salvador, is\ncaught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the\nwar which is raging all around him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheck the Spanish Speaking Organization website for movie trailers: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cyberbuzz.gatech.edu\/sso\/?page=filmfestival\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/cyberbuzz.gatech.edu\/sso\/ \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe hope to see you there!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27412","created_gmt":"2011-04-05 15:29:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:42","author":"Stephanie Bullard","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-04-08T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-04-23T23:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-04-23T23:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-04-09 00:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-04-24 03:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-04-24 03:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cyberbuzz.gatech.edu\/sso\/","title":"http:\/\/cyberbuzz.gatech.edu\/sso\/"}],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2402","name":"film"},{"id":"4008","name":"free"},{"id":"167057","name":"spanish"},{"id":"167470","name":"spanish speaking organization"},{"id":"167471","name":"sso"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1791","name":"Student sponsored"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeter Van Ness\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:pvanness@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epvanness@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}