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04/11/2007
Documenting Immigration workshop with Natalia Almada

As part of the 2007 Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, Encuentros/Encounters: New Cinema of Latin America and Spain, the Interdepartmental Film Studies Program is pleased to announce:

Documenting Immigration: A Workshop with filmmaker Natalia Almada

Wednesday April 11, 2007
1:00 - 3:30 pm
Herter 301, UMass-Amherst

Ms. Almada is the director, producer and editor of Al Otro Lado [To the Other Side] (2006, Mexico/USA. 70 mins), recently aired on public television’s P.O.V. series. She will host a workshop for interested students and faculty addressing the basics of producing, financing and distributing an independent documentary film. Almada will focus on how point of view is conveyed through editing and story structure, her experiences as a Latina filming in Sinaloa and the U.S./Mexican border, and the socio-economic and political aspects of a filmmaker’s relations with her subjects. Participants will also see portions of her new work in progress, El General.

The workshop will begin with an advance screening of Al Otro Lado, 1:00-2:10pm, followed by a 15 minute break, and then discussion with the director from 2:25-3:30pm.

Students and faculty in the Five Colleges are welcome. Registration is requested. Please contact Jacqueline Urla, curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, at jurla@anthro.umass.edu or the Film Studies program at film@hfa.umass.edu as soon as possible if you would like to attend.

Note: The Festival screening of Al Otro Lado will take place the same evening (7:30pm, 137 Isenberg School of Management) and feature an introduction and question and answer period with the filmmaker.