{"id":11097,"date":"2011-11-03T18:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T01:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=11097"},"modified":"2011-11-19T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T00:24:46","slug":"peruvian-film-shown-in-new-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/peruvian-film-shown-in-new-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Peruvian film shown in new theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cOctubre,\u201d the Peruvian submission for the Oscars from filmmakers Daniel and Diego Vega, will screen in San Francisco on Nov. 7. The best news is that the screening will take place at the SF Film Society | New People Cinema, the San Francisco Film Society\u2019s new home in Japantown.<\/p>\n

With a simple and occasionally fun tone, \u201cOctubre\u201d tells the life story of Clemente (Bruno Odar), a small-time money-lender from Lima, whose life is disrupted by the appearance of a baby and a nosy neighbor (Gabriela Vel\u00e1squez).<\/p>\n

Making use of an expressionist style and dry humor, the Vega brothers made their film with a budget of $75,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cOctubre\u201d competed for the nomination against other Peruvian films such as: \u201cLa Vigilia\u201d by Augusto Tamayo, \u201cEl Inca, La Boba y El Hijo del Ladr\u00f3n\u201d by Ronnie Temoche and \u201cEl \u00daltimo Guerrero Chanka\u201d by V\u00edctor Amadeo Zarabia to be a candidate for the Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n

The Peruvian film industry is small in comparison to other Latin American countries like Argentina, Brazil or Mexico, but it has been well represented in San Francisco over the last few years.<\/p>\n

Although it was never came to our city, \u201cLa Teta Asustada,\u201d a Peruvian film by Claudia Llosa was for an Oscar after it won a Golden Bear in Berlin.<\/p>\n

This past May the Cinema Errante collective released Hector Chavez\u2019s \u201cSaicoman\u00eda,\u201d a documentary about the reunion of a garage band from Lima, on Artists\u2019 Television Access.<\/p>\n

And in June we had the opportunity of viewing a well-made opera, \u201cEntrecorrientes,\u201d which was shown at the Frameline Festival and won an award at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Now \u201cOctubre,\u201d which won the Jury Prize \u201cUn Certain Regard\u201d at the Cannes Film Festival in France, is being honored.<\/p>\n

This of course is not the first time that two brothers have co-directed a film together; we treasure the work of notable predecessors such as the Lumi\u00e8re brothers in France, the Almod\u00f3var in Spain, the Bustamante documentary makers from Chile, and the Mitchell and Kuchar brothers in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

After receiving the Cannes award, Diego Vega declared, he would like to continue making films and added that he hopes the next film is easier to make.<\/p>\n

In the mean time, Spanish-speaking film aficionados in San Francisco will await the screening of \u201cOctubre\u201d in the newly inaugurated SF Film Society | New People Cinema \u2014 with a capacity of 150 people \u2014 as the beginning of an opportunity to access some of the talented Latin American films that deserve to be screened in our theaters.<\/p>\n