Strap on your sombrero and start working on your alveolar trill! The hottest line up of films from the world’s most flamboyant and spicy film festival, the Hola Mexico Film Festival, will blaze into Adelaide this November 12-21.
Fresh from its US tour of LA, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Washington and New York, the rich and raw 2010 line up will present new-release feature films, documentaries, and a tribute to one of the greatest minds behind Mexican new wave cinema and winner of Cannes Palme d’Or, director Carlos Carrera.
“2010 is a monumental year of celebrations in Mexico with the bicentennial of the independence movement and 100 year anniversary of the Mexican revolution on 16 September. It’s always exciting to share momentous festivities with Australian audiences through the Hola Mexico Film Festival,” said Samuel Douek, Festival Director, Hola Mexico Film Festival.
To celebrate this historic year for Mexico, Adelaide will kick off its Hola Mexico Film Festival on Friday 12 November, 7pm, with the SA premiere of Alamar, the poetic story of a young boy who is taught about his Mayan origins in Mexico. The screening will be followed by the Sol Opening Night Fiesta where DJ Senorita of La Bomba will bring Mexican beats to the party while guests enjoy Sol Cerveza beer and Mexican canapés amid a colourful fiesta foyer.
Also screening at the Hola Mexico Film Festival will be a tribute to the films of Carlos Carrera – one of Mexico’s most brilliant directors – including The Crime of Father Amaro (2002), starring Gael Garcia Bernal, and his most recent film, On Childhood (2010).
In addition, watch out for Australian-born Mexican Michael Rowe’s debut feature film and winner of the Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or, Leap Year (2010), a deeply moving study on loneliness, pain, lust and love through the eyes of Laura, a 25-year old journalist living in Mexico City.
Amongst the hard hitting documentaries is Sundance Film Festival selection and winner of Miami International Film Festival, Sins of My Father (2010), the story of notorious and brutal Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, told by his son Juan for the first time since changing his name and identity to escape his father’s dubious legacy after he was gunned down in 1993.
Founded in 2006 by Samuel Douek with the express goal of exposing the international community to the creativity, ingenuity and charm of Mexican culture through film, Douek has organised a diverse and well-edited selection of films which allow viewers to experience the unique walks of life that characterise Mexican identity and culture and which exposes Mexican directors, producers and actors to the mainstream Australian market. Currently, Hola Mexico Film Festival is the largest tribute to Mexican film in the world.
For more information on the festival visit http://www.holam
exicoff.com
Tickets:
Full $15 Concession $12.50 Sol Opening Night Fiesta: Full $25
Festival Pass (9 films excluding opening night): Full $80, Concession $60
For session times visit http:www.mercurycinema.org.au or call 8410 1934 to make a booking. The Mercury Cinema is located at 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide (between Hindley Street and North Terrace – within the Lion Arts Centre).
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