Hispanic Heritage Month | 2019 Film Festival

In honor of the Hispanic Heritage month and hosted by CCD's World Languages Department, come and see how fiction & reality mix with one another through film.

FILM FESTIVAL DATES

October 9 - El Camino (The Path) | Confluence Building, Room 109 | 3 p.m.

• About the film: Two Nicaraguan children, Seslaya and her brother Dario, escape from Nicaragua looking for their mother who emigrated 8 years ago to the neighboring country of Costa Rica.
• Guest Speaker: Mauricio Espinoza, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish & Latin American Literature/Cultural Studies at University of Cincinnati

October 16 - What Happens To A Dream Deferred | Confluence Building, Room 109 | 3 p.m.

• About the film: DACA graduate students, Oswaldo Sandoval and Jose Badillo, face the uncertainty of deportation when the Trump administration rescinds the expansion of the DACA program.
• Guest Speaker: Oswaldo Sandoval, Ph.D ., Assistant Professor of Spanish at Colgate University, Gregor Mieder, Director of Immigrant Services Program at Center for Equity and Student Achievement at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Ariadna Ochoa Magallanes, Specialist in Immigrant Services at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

October 23 - La Yuma | Confluence Building, Room 217 | 3 p.m.

• About the film: Yuma discovers boxing as an escape from the cruel reality of her family's poverty and misery in Nicaragua
• Guest Speaker: Richard E. Niemeyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology at CCD

October 30 - Un Cuento Chino (Chinese Take-Away) | Confluence Building, Room 109 | 3 p.m.

• About the film: A tragicomedy about the clash of two cultures. Roberto, a regimented Argentinian, finds Jun in the streets. Jun is Chinese, doesn't speak Spanish, and is looking for his uncle. How will two completely "opposite" cultures get along?
• Guest Speakers: Jane Lim, Director of Confucius Institute at CCD, Xin Liu, Visiting Professor, Deputy Director, International Affairs Office from University of Jinan, Shandong, China, Jian Guatney, Professor of English as a Second Language at CCD, and Fan Jiang, Visiting Professor of Chinese, Jiangxi University of Technology

All films will have English subtitles. This event is free and open to students, faculty, staff and community members. For more information please contact John Cruz.