This is for La Raza: Brown and Proud! Rare Film Screening

Sat, Mar 11
8:30PM
$10.00 RSVP(Limited Seating)

THIS IS FOR THE RAZA: BROWN AND PROUD
Screens at Oddball Films

Orale!! Here's a brown and proud program of films about the Latino
experience in the US. Curated by filmmaker Jesse Lerner and Oddball =

Films director Stephen Parr this program opens with the documentary =

"Decision at Delano"(1967), which portrays Cesar Chavez at a crucial =

moment in the
farmworkers' struggle. "Latino: A Cultural Conflict"(1971), shot on =

the streets of San Francisco's Mission District over 35 years ago(!) =

by Brian Lewis follows teenage Mauricio's alienation in the Anglo =

community while teenage "Guy" (date unknown) is a self-reflexive look =

at the price of discrimination and colonization in East L.A. "Calle =

Chula" (1998) is a portrait of 15-year old Calle, a mixed Salvadoran =

and Ohlone girl, Calle, who travels through the Mission District of =

her and her peoples' memories. Veronica Majano will also screen =

other shorts. "The Mexican American Speaks: Heritage in =

Bronze" (1972) is Encyclopedia Britanica's ambitious group portrait
of La Raza.

PLUS! Border tech music, lowrider car clips shot on the streets of =

San Francisco in 1965, rare Mexican home movies from the 1940s and in =

person appearances by two from the Subcine.com(Independent Latino Film =

+Video) stable, filmmakers Veronica Majano and Jesse Lerner.


VERONICA MAJANO
Veronica Majano is a San Francisco-based filmmaker. She is the =

recipient of the Film Arts Foundation's STAND Grant, the Film Arts =

Foundation's Personal Works Grant, an Astraea grant and a grant from =

the Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists. Majano's films have =

shown at the Cuban Film Festival, Women in the Directors Chair, =

Talking Pictures and the Guggenheim Museum.
Veronica's works are streetwise, poetic reflections of culture, =

memory and place.

Veronica says, "My work never turns out to be what I think it is =

going to be, that's the beauty of imagination".


JESSE LERNER
Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker based in Los =

Angeles. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New =

York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Reina =

Sof=EDa Museum in Madrid, the Sydney Biennale, the Sundance Film =

Festival, New York's Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles International =

Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and other =

festivals and museums internationally.

His short film Natives (1991, with Scott Sterling) and the feature- =

length experimental documentaries Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995, =

with Rub=E9n Ortiz-Torres), Ruins (1999), and The American Egypt (2001) =

have won numerous prizes at film festivals in the United States, =

Latin America and Japan. As a media arts curator, he has organized =

several exhibitions, including The Mexperimental Cinema, a traveling =

retrospective of 60 years of avant-garde film and video from Mexico, =

which has been presented at the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, =

the National University (UNAM) in Mexico City, the Museum of =

Contemporary Art San Diego, the Cineteca de Nuevo Le=F3n in Monterrey, =

and the Guggenheim Museum.


For more information about the filmmakers visit www.subcine.com

Venue:

Oddball Films
275 Capp Street
San Francisco
415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com

Off Mission between 17th and 18th, Mission and South Van Ness(Closer =

to 18th)

Additional Info:

415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com