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The Contemporary Peruvian Film Showcase is proud to announce the film line-up for 2013, celebrating the 500th anniversary of Vasco Nunez de Balboa’s first sighting of the Pacific Ocean and the city of Lima, the only Latin American capital city bordering the Pacific Ocean, and the creation of the Pacific Alliance, a Latin American bloc composed of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

The festival, which returns to New York City for a fourth year, will take place on September 17, 18, 24 & 25, 2013 (program attached) at the Instituto Cervantes – New York (211 E 49th St). This year’s program includes a diverse schedule of 14 features, shorts and documentaries. The festival highlight will be the screening of Kon-Tiki, the 1951 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature, a about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl.

The 2013 Contemporary Peruvian Film Showcase is curated by the photographer and filmmaker Lorry Salcedo Mitrani, and produced in conjunction with the Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations and The City of Lima.

For the first time, the festival will also feature a photo exhibition, Lima 130K. This show, will align with the festival’s theme, is curated by Carlos Caamaño, and comprises 15 groundbreaking artworks by the most prominent photographers in the contemporary Peruvian art scene. The exhibition will run from September 17 through October 4, 2013, at the Instituto Cervantes art gallery (211 E 49th St).

Film Program

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, Opening Night

6 – 6:45 pm

“Ancient Lima” (Lima Milenaria), Documentary short / 2013 / 5 min

“Mother Ocean” (Madre Mar), Documentary short by Delia Ackerman and Mariana Tschudi / 2011 / 11 min

6:45- 7:40 pm “Kon-Tiki”, Documentary by Thor Heyerdahl / 1947 / 55 min (Norwegian with English subtitles)

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

6 – 6:15 pm, “Mary of the desert” (Maria del desierto), Documentary by Gianfranco Annichini / 1981 / 13 min

6:20– 6:25 pm, “The Mirror” (El Espejo) Fiction short by Franco Garcia Becerra / 2010 / 5 min

6:30- 7:45 pm, “Dark Heaven” (Cielo Oscuro), Feature-length fiction film by Joel Calero / 2012 / 75 min

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

6 – 6:55 pm, “Lucha Reyes, Lettter to Heaven” (Lucha Reyes, Carta al Cielo), Documentary by Javier Ponce Gambirazio / 2009 / 52 min

7:00 – 7:15 pm, “The Tree” (El Arbol), Fiction short by Rodrigo Moreno Valle / 2011 / 13 min

7:20 – 9:00 pm , “The Trial” (La Prueba), Feature-length fiction film by Judith Velez / 2006 / 100 min

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

6 – 6:20 pm, “Lima 2011”, Fiction short by Franco Garcia Becerra / 2011 / 20 min

6:25 – 6:40 pm, “Sunset” (Ocaso), Fiction short by Cristian Cancho Llamocca / 2011 / 13 min

6:45 – 8:15 pm , “The Cleaner” (El Limpiador), Feature-length fiction film by Adrian Saba / 2012 / 90 min

Notes:

Free and open to public. All films are in Spanish with English subtitles unless otherwise indicated.

Photo exhibition, Lima 130K

September 17 - October 4, 2013 (9:00 am- 6:30 pm)

Instituto Cervantes New York, art gallery (211 E 49th St)

A group of artists, all in possession of extensive photographic experience and belonging to different age groups, set off on a 130 kilometer journey along the coastal strip of Peru, from the central circuit of beaches in Lima, known as the “Costa Verde” (the Green Coast), towards both its northern and southern boundaries. Their goal: to picture the many ways in which Lima relates to the Pacific Ocean (more information attached)

List of artists:

Solange Adum, Mariella Agois, Ernesto Benavides, Maricel Delgado, Ana De Orbegoso, Antonio Escalante, Nelly García, Marina García Burgos + Ricardo Ramón,  Sebastián Gonzales, Roberto Huarcaya, Luana Letts, Musuk Nolte, Hans Stoll, Lorry Salcedo and Ricardo Yui.