Ongoing:
On Screen in Latin America
Click here for complete schedule of the Series "On Screen in Latin America"
Click here for information on Madrigal (Cuba) to be shown on April 23rd, 2008
Click here for information on Familia rodante (Argentina) to be shown on April 16th, 2008
Click here for information on Play (Chile) to be shown on April 9th, 2008
Click here for information on Tropa de elite (Brazil) to be shown on April 2nd, 2008
*During the shooting of the film, a van with 90 firearms (30 real and 60 prop guns) was robbed in the hill of Chapéu Mangueira. Teams from the local police stormed the Favela Pavão-Pavãozinho, in Copacabana, to recover the guns, but the operation was only partially successful.
*This film was already a best-seller almost three months before its official
release. Illegal copies of what the director called the "3rd cut" flooded the streets of all major capitals in Brazil, for the equivalent of five dollars a piece. Criminal investigation revealed that the original DVD was robbed in the Company Drei Marc, which does the subtitles. According to estimates at least three million people watched the bootleg version, which is six hundred thousand more than it managed during its theatrical run. However, it was the most seen Brazilian film that year in Brazilian theaters.
Just finished :
Virtual Caribbeans
A Conference on Representation, Diaspora and Performance in and on the Caribbean
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
February 28 - March 1, 2008
The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University, in conjunction with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, is pleased to announce Virtual Caribbeans, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana February 28 - March 1, 2008.
The definition of the Caribbean as primarily a geographical
region is no longer viable. Through the movement of its peoples, cultures, and lan-guages, we also make or find the “Caribbean” elsewhere. It has become an imagined commu-nity beyond geographic contours, while simulta-neously retaining an immediate materiality that impacts the everyday experiences of Caribbean (and non-Caribbean) subjects. Taking the guayabera as the ubiquitous emblem of Carib-beanness, this conference will offer a space for the exploration of manifestations across various media, technologies and performances. Due to a unique history that features French, Spanish, African, Canadian, and other immigrant influences, as well as a legacy of traffic in peoples, cultures,
dialects, and products from the West Indies and the circum-Caribbean, New Orleans provides an ideal site for these explorations. Join us in what is often called the northernmost point of the Caribbean.
Presentations will be in a wide range of areas including, but not limited to:
- Configurations of the Caribbean in cyberspace
- Filmic and other visual Caribbeans
- Listening to the Caribbean
- Tangible sites of Caribbeannness created through migrations and diaspora communities
- Performance and stagings of the Caribbean inside and outside its geographical confines
Conference Organizers:
Check Out Virtual Caribbeans Poster!!!
Virtual Caribbeans Final Program
Thank you to all who made Virtual Caribbeans possible: participants, chairs, keynote speakers and performers, Tulane faculty and students, New Orleans friends and our business partners!
