In documentary “LA QueenCiañera,” filmmaker Pedro Peira follows Mexican-American transgender activist Bamby Salcedo as she prepares a 50th birthday celebration in Los Angeles attended by the people who helped her survive. The film premiered at OutFest Los Angeles in August, and plays this week at the Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival. A theatrical release will take place in Spain on Nov. 12.
Salcedo grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico in poverty. Things became chaotic when her father moved to the U.S. Her mother abused her psychologically, and her step-father sexually. She went to look for her father, but he had started a new life.
Turning 50, transgender, HIV positive, a recovering addict, a former sex worker, and an activist for the Latin transgender community, Bamby decides to celebrate her birthday with the 49 women who made her who is she.
The film was written, produced and directed by Peira through his Festimania banner. The...
Salcedo grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico in poverty. Things became chaotic when her father moved to the U.S. Her mother abused her psychologically, and her step-father sexually. She went to look for her father, but he had started a new life.
Turning 50, transgender, HIV positive, a recovering addict, a former sex worker, and an activist for the Latin transgender community, Bamby decides to celebrate her birthday with the 49 women who made her who is she.
The film was written, produced and directed by Peira through his Festimania banner. The...
- 10/4/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
This scribe hosted last night's ninth annual Screamfest La Award Dinner (along with my lovely co-host Jonna Jackson) at Level 3 in Hollywood, and here's a rundown of those who received awards. (I want to personally thank Screamfest La founder Rachel Belofsky for honoring me with the task - she's asked me back for next year, and we'll be pulling out all the stops for that one).
Best Student Short: Else, directed by Thibaut Emin
Best Short: Prelude to Hell, Harry Doright
Best Editing: Before the Fall, editor Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Best Special Effects: The Revenant (review), director Kerry Prior
Best Makeup: The Revenant, director Kerry Prior
Best Cinematography: Before the Fall, Dp Miguel A. Mora
Best Screenplay: Hate Night, VJ Boyd & Justin Boyd
Best Musical Score: The House of the Devil, Jeff Grace
Best Actor: Before the Fall, Victor Clavijo
Best Actress: House of the Devil, Joceline Donahue
Best Director: Before the Fall,...
Best Student Short: Else, directed by Thibaut Emin
Best Short: Prelude to Hell, Harry Doright
Best Editing: Before the Fall, editor Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Best Special Effects: The Revenant (review), director Kerry Prior
Best Makeup: The Revenant, director Kerry Prior
Best Cinematography: Before the Fall, Dp Miguel A. Mora
Best Screenplay: Hate Night, VJ Boyd & Justin Boyd
Best Musical Score: The House of the Devil, Jeff Grace
Best Actor: Before the Fall, Victor Clavijo
Best Actress: House of the Devil, Joceline Donahue
Best Director: Before the Fall,...
- 10/26/2009
- by SeanD.
- DreadCentral.com
VENICE, Italy -- Brotherly love is tested to the limits in Daniel Sanchez Arevalo's sweetly told "Dark Blue Almost Black", in which an ex-convict who cannot get his girlfriend pregnant asks his younger brother to do it for him. Writer/director Aravalo and a fine cast tell the story with great charm so the picture should do well beyond the festival circuit.
The relationship between the brothers is not the only one at risk. Not only is the younger man already in love with a neighborhood girl, but also his stints during conjugal sessions at the prison take him away from looking after his father, who is suffering the long-term effects of a stroke.
Jorge (Quim Guitierrez) is a put-upon soul who has diligently nursed his father and worked as a janitor while spending seven years studying part time to get a business degree.
Older brother Antonio (Antonio de la Torre) is a different story altogether. An opportunist who has never gotten along with their father, he lands in prison where he meets Paula (Marta Etura) at a theater workshop.
Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate's boyfriend and wants to get pregnant in order to be moved out of harm's way into the jail's maternity ward. Antonio thinks he's just the man for the job, but two unforeseen things happen. One is that he falls in love with Paula, and the other is that he discovers he's sterile.
Once released, he plays on Jorge's good nature to get him to step in during conjugal visits, and more unforeseen things happen. Meanwhile, Jorge's best friend Israel (Raul Arevalo) has troubles with his father whom he thinks is gay because he spied him going to a masseur.
Jorge's relationship with Natalie (Eva Pallares) becomes difficult after she tries to get him a job where she works but he's only offered a position as a janitor. Then Antonio finds out that their father has an undisclosed bank account full of money.
The various threads play out entertainingly helped by winning performances from all the principals. Gutierrez and Etura bring warmth to what might have been cynical baby-making scenes while de la Torre and Arevalo lend assured comic touches.
DARK BLUE ALMOST BLACK
Tesela P.C.
Credits:
Writer/director: Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
Executive producer: Jose Antonio Felez
Director of photography: Juan Carlos Gomez
Art director: Federico Garcia Cambero
Music: Pascal Gaigne
Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Cast:
Jorge: Quim Gutierrez
Paula: Marta Etura
Antonio: Antonio de la Torre
Andres: Hector Colome
Israel: Raul Arevalo
Natalia: Eva Pallares
Fernando: Manuel Moron
Ana: Ana Wagener
Roberto: Roberto Enriquez
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 105 minutes...
The relationship between the brothers is not the only one at risk. Not only is the younger man already in love with a neighborhood girl, but also his stints during conjugal sessions at the prison take him away from looking after his father, who is suffering the long-term effects of a stroke.
Jorge (Quim Guitierrez) is a put-upon soul who has diligently nursed his father and worked as a janitor while spending seven years studying part time to get a business degree.
Older brother Antonio (Antonio de la Torre) is a different story altogether. An opportunist who has never gotten along with their father, he lands in prison where he meets Paula (Marta Etura) at a theater workshop.
Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate's boyfriend and wants to get pregnant in order to be moved out of harm's way into the jail's maternity ward. Antonio thinks he's just the man for the job, but two unforeseen things happen. One is that he falls in love with Paula, and the other is that he discovers he's sterile.
Once released, he plays on Jorge's good nature to get him to step in during conjugal visits, and more unforeseen things happen. Meanwhile, Jorge's best friend Israel (Raul Arevalo) has troubles with his father whom he thinks is gay because he spied him going to a masseur.
Jorge's relationship with Natalie (Eva Pallares) becomes difficult after she tries to get him a job where she works but he's only offered a position as a janitor. Then Antonio finds out that their father has an undisclosed bank account full of money.
The various threads play out entertainingly helped by winning performances from all the principals. Gutierrez and Etura bring warmth to what might have been cynical baby-making scenes while de la Torre and Arevalo lend assured comic touches.
DARK BLUE ALMOST BLACK
Tesela P.C.
Credits:
Writer/director: Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
Executive producer: Jose Antonio Felez
Director of photography: Juan Carlos Gomez
Art director: Federico Garcia Cambero
Music: Pascal Gaigne
Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Cast:
Jorge: Quim Gutierrez
Paula: Marta Etura
Antonio: Antonio de la Torre
Andres: Hector Colome
Israel: Raul Arevalo
Natalia: Eva Pallares
Fernando: Manuel Moron
Ana: Ana Wagener
Roberto: Roberto Enriquez
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 105 minutes...
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