The Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) is pleased to co-sponsor and provide support for the first Latino/a Film Series. The Latino/a Film Series is a month-long series of speakers and screenings organized by the community of Latino/a students, in collaboration with the MRC as well as other faculty and staff at Oberlin College, around topics related to the diverse Latino/a heritage. The goals of Latino/a Film Series are:
▪ To celebrate Latinidad as a quintessentially diverse, transnational, and changing phenomenon in the Americas and the rest of the world.
▪ For faculty, staff, and students, both Latino/a and non-Latino/a, to teach and learn about the past, present, and future of Latinidad.
▪ To highlight the achievements and creativity of Oberlin’s Latino/a communities by showcasing cutting edge Latino/a scholarship and cultural production.
▪ To deal with the issues surrounding legality and personhood within the global Latino/a community and its diaspora.
▪ To foment informed, engaged reflection and dialogue on what might constitute Latinidad in different historical and geographical contexts; on the social, cultural, and political importance of Latino/a communities in the U.S. and elsewhere; and on the relationships among different diasporic Latino/a communities, and their relationships with Latin America.
▪ To reach out to broader Latino/a community in Northeast Ohio.
▪To create a useful, meaningful, and necessary dialogue around issues affecting the Latino/a community such as cultura , race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, identity, im/migration, spirituality, social justice, human rights, transnationalism, globalization, the effects of imperialism and colonization, youth culture, the impact of the AIDS epidemic on barrios globally, and urban apartheid within American cities.
▪ To build coalitions with other marginalized communities in a struggle for social justice.
The 2006-2007 Latino/a Film Series Schedule:
Filmmaker Sylvia Morales
Public Lecture: “DIOSAS Unchained”
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. in Hallock Auditorium/Environmental Science Center
Celebratory Opening Banquet
Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 6 p.m. in the Environmental Science Center Atrium.
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)88 min. USA ; Director: Peter Sollett
Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Hallock Auditorium /Environmental Science Center .
*Co-sponsored by the Students for Caribbean Ancestry
Filmmaker William A. Nericcio
Public Lecture: “ Tex [t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the ‘Mexican’ in America ”
Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. in Wilder 101.
Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano (2003) 50min. USA , Cuba ; Director: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
Friday, March 16, 2007 at 10:00 p.m. in The ‘Sco in Wilder Hall.
*Co-sponsored by the Hip Hop Conference.
Temporada de patos / Duck Season (2004) 90 min. Mexico ; Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in La Casa Hispánica ( Harvey ).
*Co-sponsored by La Casa Hispánica and Hispanic Studies.
Mind If I call you sir? (2004) 28 min. USA ; Director: Mary Guzman; Producer: Karla Rosales
Friday, April 6, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Hallock Auditorium/Environmental Science Center .
*Co-sponsored by the My Name is My Own Series
Saul Searching (2003) 6 min. USA ; Director: Lala Endara
Friday, April 6, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Hallock Auditorium/Environmental Science Center .
*Co-sponsored by the My Name is My Own Series, TAG, and Lambda Union.
LFS 2006-2007 pamphlet
LFS 2006-2007 poster
