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The Latin American Video Archives is pleased to announce the release of its most recent arrivals. To order any of these tapes contact us by email at info@lavavideo.org, by phone 212-243-4804, or by fax 212-243-2007. Our website at www.latinamericanvideo.org unites the collections of all US distributors that handle Latin American titles, making it easy to locate the titles you are looking for.
Sentimental Teaser, The Get Details and Purchasing Info
Cristian Galaz
Feature 90 minutes 1999
With English subtitles
This beloved Chilean box-office smash hit tells three engaging tales of love, longing, family and housing. Anonymous callers ring in to tell all to a young, eccentric radio talk show host, recounting their most intimate stories to an eager listening public. In "Patas Negras," a provincial university student has a provocative encounter with his alluring neighbor; in "Secretos," a young woman must face the secret that has haunted her family; and in "Todo es Cancha," a young couple struggles with the nuisances of overcrowded project housing. This sincere crowd-pleaser is the most widely seen domestic film in Chile to date.
Purchase Price: $ 99.95
Fernando Is Back Get Details and Purchasing Info
Silvio Caiozzi
Documentary 31 minutes 1998
With English subtitles
Many families in Chile are still hopeful they will find traces of those relatives who dissapeared during the 70's. Excavations that took place in different parts of the country revealed the existence of human remains not identified and which were burried 25 years before. The remains of Fernando Olivares Mori were found. He had dissapeared on October 5th, 1973. His body showed evidence of torture, bone fractures and the bullets that must have killled him. After more than twenty years his family is finally able to make him a proper funeral and say goodbye to him.
Purchase Price: $ 225.00
Apu Inca of Sapallanga, The Get Details and Purchasing Info
Raul Gallegos and Wilma Feliciano
Documentary 15 minutes 1999
Dubbed into English
The Spanish/Quechua dance drama known as "The Death of Atawalpa" is seen from an Andean perspective.
Purchase Price: $ 79.95
Ruins Get Details and Purchasing Info
Jesse Lerner
Experimental 78 minutes 1999
With English subtitles
Cleverly mixing real documentary footage, fake "found" footage, and interviews, this experimental film provides a history of the various meanings assigned to Mexico's pre-Hispanic ruins and archeological objects throughout history. Appropriated as cultural patrimony by Mexican nationalists, as exotic remains of dead civilizations by foreign explorers and as "art" by others, the objects prove to have as many interpretations as interpreters. An exploration of truth, artifice, and knowledge.
Purchase Price: $ 250.00
Ritual Rhythms: Candombe Get Details and Purchasing Info
Mabel Maio
Documentary 48 minutes 1999
With English subtitles
This documentary gives a broad introduction to the history of Candombe and documents its pervasive influence in the Rio de la Plata. The film touches on the region’s history of slavery and the historical development of Candombe from a marginal form to a widely accepted and appreciated musical genre. It includes interviews with Candombe pioneers Lagrima Rios and Martha Gularte, as well as other historians, musicians, and experts in Candombe.
Purchase Price: $ 99.95
Quest of the Carib Canoe Get Details and Purchasing Info
Eugene Jarecki
Documentary 50 minutes 2000
With English subtitles
QUEST OF THE CARIB CANOE tells the story of a group of contemporary Carib Indians who undertake a sea voyage in a hand-built canoe, leaving their Caribbean island home to return to their ancestralhomeland in South America. For Jacob Frederick, a Carib artist and activist, the voyage is the culmination of a boyhood dream. Centuries before Columbus came to the islands of the Caribbean, Jacob's ancestors had come as settlers themselves, migrating northward from the Orinoco Delta in great ocean-going canoes. Five centuries of European colonization followed, all but erasing the Carib people and their culture. In 1994, Jacob's dream captured the attention of fellow Caribbean artist Aragorn Dick-Read. Together, the two men lead a group of Caribs to carve a dugout canoe and sail it nearly a thousand miles of sea and river. Their journey would reconnect Dominica's Caribs with their mainland ancestry and make a first step toward rebuidling their fragmented nation.
Purchase Price: $ 150.00
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