Hola Mexico Film Festival
September 16th 2010 08:42
National Tour Dates Announced
Strap on your sombrero and start working on your alveolar trill! The hottest line up of films from the world’s most flamboyant and spicy film festival, the Hola Mexico Film Festival, will blaze onto Australian cinema screens this October and November.
Fresh from its US tour of LA, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Washington and New York, the rich and raw 2010 line up will bring over ten feature films, six documentaries, and a tribute to one of the greatest minds behind Mexican new wave cinema and winner of Cannes Palme d’Or, director Carlos Carrera. In true celebratory style, Melbourne will play host to Mexico’s ‘Day of the Dead’ party and Sydney features the fifth anniversary party of Hola Mexico Film Festival.
“2010 is a monumental year of celebrations in Mexico with the bicentennial of the independence movement and 100 year anniversary of the Mexican revolution on 16 September. It’s always exciting to share momentous festivities with Australian audiences through Hola Mexico Film Festival and this year, in celebration of our fifth anniversary, we’ll also be touring award winning Director, Carlos Carrera - another historic event for Mexican and Australian cinema” said Samuel Douek, Festival Director, Hola Mexico Film Festival.
Visiting Australia for the first time, Carlos Carrera will host Q&A sessions after his film screenings including The Crime of Father Amaro (2002), starring Gael Garcia Bernal, the Australian premiere of his most recent film, On Childhood (2010) and Benjamin’s Woman (1991), the film that arguably launched one of the most brilliant directing careers that Mexico has ever seen.
To celebrate this historic year for Mexico, Hola Mexico Film Festival is also proud to present Revolucion (2010). The collaboration of ten voices at the forefront of Mexican cinema, Revolucion analyses the impact of the revolution on Mexicans 100 years later, and what it means to the young minds of Mexico, through the eyes of 10 directors and their 10 short films.
Also watch out for Australian-born Mexican Michael Rowe’s debut feature film and winner of the Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or, Leap Year (2010), a deeply moving study on loneliness, pain, lust and love through the eyes of Laura, a 25-year old journalist living in Mexico City.
Unlike anything that has ever come out of Mexico, and already an international success story having been picked up in markets around the world, including Hopscotch in Australia, We Are What We Are, directed by Jorge Michel Grau, promises to be the talk of this festival. This deeply moving, shocking, bloody yet intriguing story about a Mexican cannibal family in modern Mexico is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre – a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret and driven by monstrous appetites.
Amongst the hard hitting documentaries is Sundance Film Festival selection and winner of Miami International Film Festival, Sins of My Father (2010), the story of notorious and brutal Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, told by his son Juan for the first time since changing his name and identity to escape his father’s dubious legacy after he was gunned down in 1993.
Founded in 2006 by Samuel Douek with the express goal of exposing the international community to the creativity, ingenuity and charm of Mexican culture through film, Douek has organised a diverse by well-edited selection of films which allow viewers to experience the unique walks of life that characterise Mexican identity and culture and which exposes Mexican directors, producers and actors to the mainstream Australian market. At this stage, Hola Mexico Film Festival is the largest tribute to Mexican Film in the world.
NATIONAL TOUR DATES
Melbourne: ACMI
22 – 31 October
Canberra: As part of the Canberra Film Festival
1 – 2 November
Sydney: Dendy Newtown and Opera Quays
4 – 14 November
Adelaide: Mercury Cinema
12 – 17 November
Perth: Cinema Paradiso
18 – 24 November
Stay tuned for more announcements about films, special events and opening night fiestas and ticket sales.
Be sure to check out Hola Mexico Film Festival on Facebook
For more information on the festival visit www.holamexicoff.com
Strap on your sombrero and start working on your alveolar trill! The hottest line up of films from the world’s most flamboyant and spicy film festival, the Hola Mexico Film Festival, will blaze onto Australian cinema screens this October and November.
Fresh from its US tour of LA, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Washington and New York, the rich and raw 2010 line up will bring over ten feature films, six documentaries, and a tribute to one of the greatest minds behind Mexican new wave cinema and winner of Cannes Palme d’Or, director Carlos Carrera. In true celebratory style, Melbourne will play host to Mexico’s ‘Day of the Dead’ party and Sydney features the fifth anniversary party of Hola Mexico Film Festival.
“2010 is a monumental year of celebrations in Mexico with the bicentennial of the independence movement and 100 year anniversary of the Mexican revolution on 16 September. It’s always exciting to share momentous festivities with Australian audiences through Hola Mexico Film Festival and this year, in celebration of our fifth anniversary, we’ll also be touring award winning Director, Carlos Carrera - another historic event for Mexican and Australian cinema” said Samuel Douek, Festival Director, Hola Mexico Film Festival.
Visiting Australia for the first time, Carlos Carrera will host Q&A sessions after his film screenings including The Crime of Father Amaro (2002), starring Gael Garcia Bernal, the Australian premiere of his most recent film, On Childhood (2010) and Benjamin’s Woman (1991), the film that arguably launched one of the most brilliant directing careers that Mexico has ever seen.
To celebrate this historic year for Mexico, Hola Mexico Film Festival is also proud to present Revolucion (2010). The collaboration of ten voices at the forefront of Mexican cinema, Revolucion analyses the impact of the revolution on Mexicans 100 years later, and what it means to the young minds of Mexico, through the eyes of 10 directors and their 10 short films.
Also watch out for Australian-born Mexican Michael Rowe’s debut feature film and winner of the Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or, Leap Year (2010), a deeply moving study on loneliness, pain, lust and love through the eyes of Laura, a 25-year old journalist living in Mexico City.
Unlike anything that has ever come out of Mexico, and already an international success story having been picked up in markets around the world, including Hopscotch in Australia, We Are What We Are, directed by Jorge Michel Grau, promises to be the talk of this festival. This deeply moving, shocking, bloody yet intriguing story about a Mexican cannibal family in modern Mexico is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre – a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret and driven by monstrous appetites.
Amongst the hard hitting documentaries is Sundance Film Festival selection and winner of Miami International Film Festival, Sins of My Father (2010), the story of notorious and brutal Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, told by his son Juan for the first time since changing his name and identity to escape his father’s dubious legacy after he was gunned down in 1993.
Founded in 2006 by Samuel Douek with the express goal of exposing the international community to the creativity, ingenuity and charm of Mexican culture through film, Douek has organised a diverse by well-edited selection of films which allow viewers to experience the unique walks of life that characterise Mexican identity and culture and which exposes Mexican directors, producers and actors to the mainstream Australian market. At this stage, Hola Mexico Film Festival is the largest tribute to Mexican Film in the world.
NATIONAL TOUR DATES
Melbourne: ACMI
22 – 31 October
Canberra: As part of the Canberra Film Festival
1 – 2 November
Sydney: Dendy Newtown and Opera Quays
4 – 14 November
Adelaide: Mercury Cinema
12 – 17 November
Perth: Cinema Paradiso
18 – 24 November
Stay tuned for more announcements about films, special events and opening night fiestas and ticket sales.
Be sure to check out Hola Mexico Film Festival on Facebook
For more information on the festival visit www.holamexicoff.com
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