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the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA)
8:00 pm, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center
2001 E. Grace St., Richmond
Admission FREE – suggested donation $5.

ASIFA was formed in 1960 by an international group of animators to coordinate and increase world-wide visibility of the animated film. For more information about ASIFA, see the website for ASIFA East – the Eastern U.S. chapter of ASIFA.

Flicker
Canal Club, 8:00 pm, 1545 E. Cary St., Richmond
Admission $3

A bi-monthly screening of short Super 8 and 16mm films by local filmmakers.
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FLICKER
5th Anniversary
Canal Club, 8:00 pm
1545 E. Cary St., Richmond
Admission $3

To celebrate Flicker's 5th year in Richmond the party will feature films, video and the music of Tulsa Drone & The Centimeters. More about FLICKER

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's
"Death of a Bureaucrat" (1966 Cuban film classic)
Spanish with English subtitles
Gutiérrez Alea's first major film is a black comedy which tells the story of a young man's attempts to disinter and re-bury his uncle, a move that lands him in a nightmare of bureaucratic red tape. Throughout the film, Alea pays homage to a long tradition of film comedy from the silent classics to Billy Wilder and Luis Buñuel. Often misinterpreted, "Death of a Bureaucrat" is not a critique of socialism, but a critique of bureaucracy, whether it be capitalist or socialist.
MORE ABOUT Tomás Gutiérrez Alea:
"Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and the Post-Revolutionary Cuba"
ForeignFilms.com

Willie Varela's
"Border Crossing, Version One
Across wire borders, in search of Eden."
1988, Super 8, b&w/color/silent, 8 mins.
"Border Crossing, Version Two
Across wire borders at a slow resolve."
1988, Super 8, b&w/silent, 9 mins.

FLICKER

A bi-monthly screening of short Super 8 and 16mm films by local filmmakers.
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Flicker's 5th Annual "Attack of the 50-Ft. Reels" 8:00 pm at the Canal Club 1545 E. Cary Street Admission $3

After shooting their movies, edited entirely in the camera, filmmakers return their exposed film to Flicker for processing. The filmmakers get to see their films for the first time on the night of the show along with the audience. This annual show always delivers surprises and lots of fun.

Poster is by George Tautkus, creator of Krunk comics and much more. Check out George's website. To see a larger view of the poster click here.

Latin America on Film
You’re invited to Richmond’s First Annual Latin Film Festival every Saturday in October at 8pm (Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25)
at ART WORKS, 320 W. Hull Street (the old Westvaco building, just south of the 14th Street Bridge). Before the screening, take in the 17th Street Farmers' Market's Mercado 5-10pm. There will be free shuttle service between the Farmers' Market and ART WORKS. Parking is also available in a lighted, fenced lot next to the ART WORKS building on Hull Street.
After the film screenings, stay and dance to Latin American music! ADMISSION IS FREE

October 4
Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands
(1977, 106 mins.) by Bruno Barreto.
The movie, which was nomiated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film, was the most successful Brazilian film of all time and an arthouse hit in the United States. Portugese with English subtitles.
Live Bossa Nova by Quatro na Bossa

October 11
Visiting Artists: Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria/
Chiapas Media Project
Since 1998 the Chiapas Media Project (CMP) has been working as a bi-national partnership to provide video and computer equipment and training to indigenous and campesino communities in Chiapas and Guerrero, Mexico. The emphasis has been in the area of video production. The Chiapas Media Project is currently distributing 16 indigenous productions worldwide. Spanish with English subtitles. In addition, there will be a post-screening discussion with Alexandra Halkin, CMP's International Coordinator.
Dance to music provided by DJ Omar Gonzalez

October 18
Guantanamera
(1997, 104 mins.) by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio.
Alea is considered by many to be Cuba's greatest filmmaker. His final film is a graceful, comic-romantic road movie about a group of friends and relatives accompanying the body of a famous diva on a journey across Cuba to her final resting place in Havana. Spanish with English subtitles.
Live performance by the Little Habana Group

October 25
Blossoms Of Fire
(2000, 74 mins.) by Maureen Gosling and Ellen Osborne.
This delightful documentary explores the beauty and strength of the women of Juchitán, which have inspired legends and songs for centuries, as well as recent tabloid stories of female harems and free love, and sets out to separate fact from folklore and sociology from sensationalism. Spanish with English subtitles.
More dance music by DJ Omar Gonzalez