Journey and Umbrella House: Film Screening Presented by BxArts Factory

BxArts Factory Film Screening Presentation In Collaboration with Bronx Hispanic Festival and Momentos de… Organization

Lincoln Hospital Auditorium

234 E 149th St @ Morris Ave, Bronx, NY 10451 (entrence to auditorium at Morris Ave)
August 27th 2015 Time: 7:00 pm

(Free- but Ticket is required!)

BxArts Factory in collaboration with the Hispanic Bronx Festival and Momentos de… Organization have the plesure to invite you the film screening presentation of the documetary titled Travesia (Journey) of the director Alexander Gonzáles Tascón at the Lincoln Hospital Auditorium on August 27th 2015. As part of the evening programing we also are going to screen Umbrella House a 10 minutes film by Catalina Santamaría. This spacial event would not be possible without the support and collaboration of Clara Lopera Sánchez and Marcela Charry of Momentos de… Organization and the Luis Stephenberg Executive Director of the Bronx Hispanic festival.

TRAVESIA (JOURNEY) 2014
52 min. (Documentary)
DIRECTOR: Alexander Gonzáles Tascón
LANGUAGE: Spanish with English subtitles

SYNOPSIS:

The thick jungle of Colombia’s Pacific, by the Anchicayá river is the scenario of the documentary Travesía. In Travesía, Robinson and his family embark in a journey to extract wood from the deep jungle. The nature puts obstacles and difficulties in their way to achieve their goal. They also have to dodge the legal issues of wood exploitation in the region and finally they have to put their navigating skills learned since childhood, to transport the logs down the Anchicayá river, all the way to Buenaventura. Travesía is a story of survival of a family in rural Colombia.

UMBRELLA HOUSE 2013
10 min. (Short Film)
DIRECTOR: Catalina Santamaría
LANGUAGE: English

SYNOPSIS:

Umbrella House reveals the stories of the squatter community – most of them immigrants – that took over abandoned buildings in the Lower East Side of Manhattan reconstructed them and made them into homes.

Evening Program:
-7:00 pm Presentation/Introduction
-7:15 pm. Screening of UMBRELLA HOUSE
-7:30 pm. Screening of JOURNEY
-8:30 pm. Q/A with the filmmakers (time will depend on the length of the discussion, but I will try to keep it to a hour)
-After the filmmakers’ Q/A refresments will be serve outside of the auditorium.