Our friends at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts are hosting two events that we think you’ll enjoy. See the information below.
Manila Manila!
R. Zamora Linmark Reads and Jet Leyco Screens
Nov 11, 2011 at 6:15pm (Pre-reception) and 7pm (Reading and Screening)
Admission: FREE wiith RSVP
Manila, Honolulu and San Francisco collide during this evening’s literary and filmic meditations on contemporary Filipino and Filipino-American life. Celebrated author R. Zamora Linmark reads from his latest novel Leche and poems from his two collections, Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh. Preceding the reading is a screening of Jet Leyco’s harrowing short film Patlang, which was screened at the 4th annual MOV International Film Music & Literature Festival in Manila this past Summer.
For more information: http://www.ybca.org/manila-manila
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The Dream of Eleuteria
(Film Screening)
Nov 12, 2011at 7:30pm & Nov 13, 2011 at 2:00pm
This audacious and hypnotic film takes Filipino cinema to a whole new level. In one unbroken shot it follows the journey of a young girl whose parents, to settle a debt, have sold her to marry a man in Germany. It seems nearly impossible to pull off a trick like this, but it works perfectly. Oddly funny, the film is as entertaining as it is tense. (2010, 90 min, digital)
For more information: http://www.ybca.org/dream-eleuteria
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Related links:
About Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
http://www.ybca.org/about
DIRECTIONS IN STORYTELLING: R. Zamora Linmark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LkX8hdU3vc
