Good thing that I have some local bloggers keeping me up-to-date on what’s going around town. First, Derek of Third Decade points me to the Roxbury Film Festival, which has put out its schedule and list of films for this year’s offerings, which show in mid-August. Some of the shorts sound pretty interesting, and I’ll be sure to catch at least one feature as well — right now, I’m leaning toward Constellation, a drama about a black family in the Deep South who gather for a funeral and face past details of an interracial affair. There’s plenty on offer, whether documentaries on hip hop, social problem melodramas, historical pics and films from the African diapora.
Meanwhile, I read over at Letter from Eastie that the Boston Public Library is launching its 10th Annual IberoAmerican Film Festival tomorrow. Well, it’s actually less a film festival than a film series: the films have already had first run release, some a couple of years ago, and the screenings are all on DVD/video. Still, all screenings are free, and given that Latin American films so rarely see the light of day in art cinemas here (and most of the series’s films have no Region 1 DVD release), it’s definitely worth checking out. Tomorrow’s film, Medio Tiempo/Half Time, seems like an interesting take on Salvadoran immigrants in Las Vegas. I’m particularly looking forward to La Pluma del Arcangel/The Archangel’s Feather, a historical political drama about a telegraph operator in small-town Venezuela who fights the military authorities to bring communication to the town. It plays August 17.
Are there other film events I’m currently missing?
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