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QCC and La Peña present Al Más Allá : A Screening by Lourdes Portillo
Join us for the screening of a film by award-winning filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo, Al Más Allá (Beyond the Beyond), an experimental documentary mixing truth and fiction and taking place in Mexico's underdeveloped Mayan coast. Real interviews with tourist guides, merchants, and American expats about the corruption and violence caused by drug trafficking in the region are interspersed with stylized narrative scenes that reveal the filmmaker's preoccupations and personal ambitions that drive her search.
Featuring Madeleine Lim, Executive Director of Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project who brings video from QWoCMAP documentary artists and joins Jacqueline Francis, CCA Senior Lecturer and authormost recently of Making Race: Modernism & "Racial Art" in a discussion about the nature and changes of documentary film . . . especially in the hands of women of color!
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LocationLa Peña Cultural Center (View)
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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