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Check out the films before the event: https://www.seedandspark.com/festivals/cineola/watch/resistir

Advance tickets at Eventbrite

Filmmakers

• Fernando López Escriva and Pablo Alvarez Mesa (‘La Pesca’ 🇨🇴)
• Susy Peña (‘The Breadmaker’ 🇻🇪)
• Viviana Zuñiga (‘Estamos, Que Es Ganancia’ 🇲🇽)
• Dieter Deswarte (‘Hazte Sentir’ 🇧🇷)

About Carlos Aguilar

Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar’s work has appeared in prestigious publications such as Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Indiewire, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Remezcla, and Variety Latino, among others. Besides his work in journalism, Aguilar regularly works as a screener for the Sundance Film Festival and has also been on the jury at festivals such as the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles, and Aspen Shortsfest.

June 6 – 12, 2020
Festival Pass: $12
Single Tickets: $8

Co-presented by the Bay Area Video Coalition, CINEOLA will be available online across the U.S. on Seed&Spark. Proceeds will benefit ATA, The Roxie and CARECEN SF, a non-profit supporting Latino, immigrant, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Shorts Blocks

The festival features two blocks of documentary short films showcasing filmmakers from across Latin America, representing a variety of realities from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. These include Hazte Sentir, a collaborative project led by Dieter Deswarte and the residents of Casa Miga, the first and only LGBTIQ+ refugee centre in Latin America, which sits in the middle of the Amazon, in the Brazilian city of Manaus, as well as Susy Peña’s The Breadmaker, about a Chavista collective that has stepped in to take over production at a local bakery, La Minka. Elsewhere, shorts feature everything from Cuban militants (Verde Olivo), Honduran trans woman (Victoria) and Colombian fishermen (La Pesca).

• Recordar
  Stories of legacy, memory and identity from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador and Colombia.
• Resistir
  Stories of resistance, solidarity and tradition from Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil.

Virtual Events

The festival will host two live filmmaker Q&As, featuring guest moderators film writer Carlos Aguilar and Bay Area filmmaker Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World).

June 6 – 12, 2020
Festival Pass: $12
Single Tickets: $8

Co-presented by the Bay Area Video Coalition, CINEOLA will be available online across the U.S. on Seed&Spark. Proceeds will benefit ATA, The Roxie and CARECEN SF, a non-profit supporting Latino, immigrant, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Shorts Blocks

The festival features two blocks of documentary short films showcasing filmmakers from across Latin America, representing a variety of realities from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. These include Hazte Sentir, a collaborative project led by Dieter Deswarte and the residents of Casa Miga, the first and only LGBTIQ+ refugee centre in Latin America, which sits in the middle of the Amazon, in the Brazilian city of Manaus, as well as Susy Peña’s The Breadmaker, about a Chavista collective that has stepped in to take over production at a local bakery, La Minka. Elsewhere, shorts feature everything from Cuban militants (Verde Olivo), Honduran trans woman (Victoria) and Colombian fishermen (La Pesca).

• Recordar
  Stories of legacy, memory and identity from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador and Colombia.
• Resistir
  Stories of resistance, solidarity and tradition from Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil.

Virtual Events

The festival will host two live filmmaker Q&As, featuring guest moderators film writer Carlos Aguilar and Bay Area filmmaker Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World).