V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society

new, now and latIn: latIno cInema today
10:00am – 11:30am, Sunday, november 9, 2008
Upstairs Screening Room – Movies at Midway
Free admission, no registration required.
As a companion to the sidebar Latino Cinema Today, a panel of specialists in Latino cinema
will guide us to a better understanding of why this genre has risen to its highest peak. From
facts and figures to artistic, creative and intellectual capacity, all points will be fair game for
this presentation. Why is it that Latino countries are producing such a high volume of films
compared to the recent past? Why are filmmakers taking risks in presenting such innovative
films that may not cross over to the foreign markets? How are Latino films being received by
critics and audiences in both the native lands as well as abroad? How do the issues of identity
and culture manifest themselves in the films? What’s the next wave going to bring and what
types of expectations are being placed on the individual filmmakers as well as the collective
industry of Latino cinema? Join us for some of the answers as well as what is sure to be a lively
Q&A session.
moderator:
carol bIdault de l’Isle is President of MediaFusion, a financing and distribution company based in Washington,
DC. She brings with her 30 years of industry experience in the united States, Europe and Latin America. She is also
the Executive Director/Founder of the Washington, DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF), and of DC’s CineLatino, a
showcase for Latin cinema. She is also a writer for many journals and periodicals on facts and figures on Latin American
Film Industry.
panelIsts
DR. cORinnE PUBiLL has dual citizenship from Spain and France and completed her Ph. D. at the university of
California Davis in 2006. She is now an Assistant professor at Salisbury university. Dr. Pubill’s scholarship in the area
of Modern Languages is demonstrated by her publications, conference presentations, and awards in this area. She is
currently examining literature and films which are linked to dictatorial regimes.
DR. EMiLy STORy holds a Ph.D. (2006) from Vanderbilt university and is Assistant Professor of History at Salisbury
university. She teaches courses in Latin American History and researches mid-twentieth-century Brazil. Film is of
particular interest to her and she taught “Latin American History in Film and Fiction” at Georgetown university in the
summer of 2007.
DR. JULiA MEDinA received a doctorate from the university of California Davis in Latin American Literature and critical
theory. She also worked as a program coordinator for the university’s Center for History, Society, and Culture. Julia is
currently a professor at Albion College in the state of Michigan as a scholar in culture and history of Central America.
During the spring, she taught a class on Advanced Spanish through Hispanic Cinema.
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