11/21/2023 0 Comments Ears open eyeballs click watch![]() This moving tale neatly encapsulates the effects of globalization on small villages, whose residents are seen as mere cogs in the profit wheel of multinational corporations.ĭavid Zeiger's superb Sir! No Sir! (Prods.: Evangeline Griego, Aaron Zarrow) earned the Audience Award for Best Documentary. ![]() Banding together, the residents fight government harassment and corruption in order to retain their land and ensure a future for their children. The Target Documentary Award went to Beth Bird for Everyone Their Grain of Sand, a film about the stalwart Mexican community of Moclavio Rojas, whose inhabitants bravely battle government attempts to evict them in order to make way for industrial development. Using the mordant lyrics of the corridos (ballads) instead of voiceover results in a musical yet tragic tale of survival in a failing economy-epitomized in the last shot of a border crossing littered with graves. Against a backdrop of ballads and lyrics brimming with unrequited love and torment, the film exudes the melancholy, isolation, poverty and sacrifice of the mariachi tradition.Īl Otro Lado (To the Other Side) (Dir.: Natalia Almada Prods.: Kent Rogowski, Tommaso Fiacchino) looks at the limited choices facing the citizens of Sinaloa, Mexico: drug trafficking, poverty or illegal immigration. Gorgeously shot on film, with luminous, immaculate images, Romntico is a lovingly detailed immigrant tale in reverse, following the struggling mariachi artist as he ekes out a living playing at funerals, weddings and in bars for prostitutes and their clients, and selling ice cream from a pushcart, all the while ambivalent about whether (and how) he should return to the US. Mark Becker's Romantico is an intimate portrait of a Mexican troubadour returning home to the impoverished border town of Salvatierra, after years of playing love songs for tips in San Francisco 's hip dive bars. ![]() Audiences were treated to a muscular line-up of over 20 feature docs, many riveting and thought-provoking. You guessed it: I was at the Los Angeles Film Festival, held in June and organized by the newly baptized FIND (Film Independent, formerly IFP West). Swaying palms, oversized sunglasses and Blackberrys galore.
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