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| Title: | American visa | | Director: | Juan Carlos Valdivia | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | United States : Studio Latino : distributed by First Look Home Entertainment, c2007. | | Language: | Spanish; optional English or Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a film in 2005. Based on the novel by Juan De Recacoechia. Bola Ocho Producciones, Producciones por Marca, Nicolás Rubió, Richard Ham, Oscar Quintela con la participación de Programa Ibermedia, Consejo Nacional de Cine de Bolivia, Fondo de Inversión y Estímulos al Cine (FIDECINE México) presentan ; una película de Juan Carlos Valdivia ; escrita, producida y dirigida por Juan Carlos Valdivia ; productores, Alejandro González Padilla, Felipe Galdo. Director of photography, Ernesto Fernández Tellería ; editor, Horacio Quiroz ; music, Pepe Stephens. Performer Demián Bichir, Kate del Castillo, Alberto Etcheverry, Roberto Barbery, Alejandra Lanza, Raúl Gómez. Special features include two trailers, "American woman" video by Pesado, making of featurette, production notes, cast and director biographies, interviews with director and actors, and photo gallery.
| | Plot: | "Mario Alvarez, is an English professor seeking to reunite with his son, years after having sent him to the United States to seek a higher education. Mario's plans are seemingly ruined when his visa application is rejected due to the stricter policies implemented in the post 9/11 aftermath. Desperate to reunite with his son, Mario resorts to questionable measures to overcome the bureaucracy and corruption that stands between him and the visa. Along the way he befriends, Blanca, a beautiful exotic dancer that will make him question whether the road to true happiness lies in following your heart or in fulfilling the American Dream"--Container.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Bolivia. Mexico. United States. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Bolivia | | Director: | Israel Adrián Caetano | | Format: | 1 videocassette (75 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. VHS | | Imprint: | San Luis, Argentina : AVH, c2002. | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Argentina. Dirección: Adrián Caetano. Intérpretes: Freddy Flores (Freddy), Rosa Sánchez (Rosa), Oscar Bertea (Oso), Enrique Liporace (Don Enrique), Marcelo Videla (Marcelo), Héctor Anglada (Vendedor), Alberto Mercado (Alberto). Guión: Adrián Caetano, basado en un cuento de Romina Lanfranchini Fotografía: Julián Apezteguía.Montaje: Lucas Scavino, Santiago Ricci
Sonido directo: Juan Pablo Mellibovsky, Luciano Specos.
Música: Los Kjarkas.
Dirección de arte y vestuario: María Eva Duarte.
Productor ejecutivo: Matías Mosteirin.
Productora asociada: Lita Stantic.
Compañía productora: La Expresión del Deseo, con el apoyo del INCAA, y la Hubert Bals Fund, del Festival Internacional de Cine de Rotterdam.
| | Plot: | A timely and urgent feature, rich in ideas and sensibility, Bolivia portrays, through an intimate look at its characters, an Argentina in a state of social emergency.
The film was born from a story written by Romina Lafranchini. Made with a minimal budget, which required three years of discontinuous filming, the film is set in a bar that was made available to Caetano on different days and at different times in the lower-middle class Buenos Aires suburb of Villa Crespo. Although never able to film for more than three days at a time for budget reasons, the thread of the story is perfectly continuous. With asceticism and a power of synthesis which enables the director to give an ample human portrait of the characters, Caetano calls attention to the pressing social reality of a country in the brink of plummeting.
Bolivia tells the story of Freddy, an illegal immigrant who has left Bolivia, his home and his family to try his luck in Argentina, where he hopes to build a future in which they can be reunited. He lands a job as a cook in a restaurant where the owner is happy to flout the law in order to secure cheap labor and where Freddy meets the characters that will change the course of his life – a Paraguayan waitress, a traveling salesman from the province of Córdoba, two Buenos Aires –porteño- taxi drivers and one of the driver’s buddies. The interactions between Freddy, his co-workers and the regular clientele unfold into a low key but deeply humane drama, in which prejudice and discrimination are commonplace, and rare glimpses of warmth all the more precious because of this. With strong performances, a concise narrative and impeccable camera work, Bolivia explores issues of xenophobia and social violence in Argentina.
According to Caetano, “when writing the script, what interested me was the story; the issue of racism was not very present. However, it is inevitable that when addressing those characters and setting the story in that particular social strata, there is a series of themes that appear on their own and impose themselves.” The filmmaker believes that, “the film’s main theme is the collision among people of the same social class, they are workers about to be left out of any class at all, and thus they are intolerant towards one another. Basically, they are trapped in a situation they can not escape.”
The honest and raw characteristics particular to Bolivia can be, in part, attributed to the film’s black and white cinematography, the setting of most of the action in one location – the restaurant – and the use of both professional and non-professional actors.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Argentina. Bolivia. Literary adaptation. Immigrants. Buenos Aires. Social conditions. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | El día que murió el silencio / The day silence died. | | Director: | Polo Agazzi | | Format: | 1 videocassette (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | New York, NY : First Run Features Home Video, 2000 | | Language: | I Spanish with English subtitles
| | Notes: | Screenplay, Guillermo Aguirre, Paolo Agazzi ; producer, Martin Proctor. Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998. Performer Darío Grandinetti, Gustavo Angarita, Elias Serrano, Norma Merlo, Guillermo Granda, Maria Laura Garcia, Blanca Morrison
| | Plot: | Lyrical, sentimental comedy with shades of magic realism in its tale of a mysterious stranger who brings radio to a remote South American village.
Into this blissful remove comes a mysterious stranger who sets up a radio and loudspeakers in the town square, playing music (Elvis, no less!) and selling air-time to townspeople to broadcast their dirty laundry ...and secret desires. When the radio operator falls in love with the shackled daughter of a cuckolded husband, The Day Silence Died settles into its "dreamy, lyrical way, gathering a comic momentum built on themes of sexual jealousy and theatrical legerdemain." - New York Times
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Bolivia | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Sena quina. La inmortalidad del cangrejo | | Director: | Paolo Agazzi. | | Format: | videodisc (91 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region All) | | Imprint: | Bolivia : Pegaso Producciones, 2006 | | Language: | Spanish
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Pegaso Producciones en coproducción con Banda Imagen presenta una película de Paolo Agazzi ; guión Juan Pablo Piñeiro, Paulo Agazzi ; dirección Paolo Agazzi. Sound, Ramiro Fierro ; editing, Mela Márquez ; photography, Guillermo Medrano. Participants: Cristian Mercado, Rosendo Paz, José Veliz, Soledad Ardaya, Maria del Carmen Rosa, Graciela Tamayo, Erika Balanza, Fred Nuñez, Mocita Perdriel.
| | Plot: | The comic story of three small time Bolivian con men and their struggle to survive.
| | Subjects: | Feature films -- Bolivia. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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