LM3 @ La Peña Hip Hop Theater Festival

We've been working hard adding some new spices here and there to bring our fuerte flava out in full effect. This will be the culmination of a lot work on our current piece and after this we will be moving on preparing for a full length show with La Peña's experimental Teatro in June and then on to Milta's obra maestra in the fall. So don't miss this show this friday! It's going to be so much fun and we go on first so don't be late! (and FRIDAY is MILTA's B-day so lets party!)

La Peña Hip Hop Theater

Las Manas Tres, Delina Brooks & El Teatro Campesino

Friday May 16, 2008
$10 - 8pm

Las Manas Tres "Mi Espacio" pokes fun and peels back the layers of community building and relationships, speaking from the in between spaces as hi-tech aztecs, cyber mamas and spiritual beings. Delina Brooks "Beauty, The Beast", a biographical dance-theater play of poetry, song, & dance. Guerrilla Radio by El Teatro Campesino is an acto tackling media reform and the National Association of Broadcasters.



Las Manas Tres (Maya, Milta and Cruz) are hybrid poetas bringing the fuerte flava, heating the heart and melting the mind from the Bay to L.A. Their stilo is characterized by a mixture of theater, spoken word and movement, centered around themes of social justice, sexuality, motherhood and the relationship between first and third world women. Born from the Las Manas Sisterhood Circle, individually these women are accomplished in their own right. As a trio they take their creativity to new heights using sisterhood and storytelling to inspire collaborative pieces that delve into pain, injustice, love, family, community, and identity, which conjure a potent potion to fend off the plague of self-sabotage. Their newest work pokes fun and peels back the layers of community building and relationships, speaking from the in between spaces as hi-tech aztecs, cyber mamas and spiritual beings. LM3 are always ready to bring the hotness. Yaddamean?

My film in Boyle Heights Latina Film Fest

BHLIFE 2007 Program!!
My film THE LAST WORD plays on saturday afternoon (see below). Unless I can hustle a plane ticket I'm not sure I will be able to make it because I have a commitment in the bay that night...pero vamos a ver.
Much love, Maya
BHLIFE



* * * If you are interested in volunteering this year, please contact Selene at selene@casa0101.org * * *

BHLIFE 2007 - Program Schedule (subject to change)

Friday, December 7th
Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center
1600 East 4th St, Los Angeles CA.

BY INVITATION ONLY

Opening Night, 7:00p.m.
Doors Open
Screening, 8:00 p.m.

Conversations II

A Man of Two Havanas
With a childhood filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, the filmmaker explores her relationship with him and the Cuba he left behind. Through the prism of a daughter we explore the past, the present, and the nature of social responsibility and personal sacrifice.

Reception, 10:30p.m.
With special performance by Strangely Attractive


Saturday, December 8th
CASA 0101; 2009 East 1st St. 90033

Filmmakers Luncheon 12:00-2:00pm

Doc Program 1, 3:00-5:00pm

Little Giant

THE LAST WORD is about LAS MANAS, a fierce women of color writing circle and spoken word crew using sisterhood to create space for voices to be heard

Milagros: Made in Mexico follows the enterprising women of Guanajuato as they revive their economically fractured birthplace

Mi Corazon Program, 6:00-8:00 pm

Broken Hearts What's worse than finding out their lives are about to end in one tragic moment, all because of a promise made to a friend?

Late Bloomer

Afuera an Argentine girl who immigrates to the United States in search of a more promising life.

Blackout 3 Latina roommates and their all American neighbor remain enclosed during a Sunday night blackout.

Tomoko's Kitchen eight neighbors who have never met, suddenly are forced to come together after an apartment security system malfunctions.

Experimental Goddess, 9:00-10:00p.m.

Perrors Sin Amor

Mitosis The usual method of cell division in clay animation.

Entrega a Tiempo

Untitled Inspired by femme fatales, film noir, feminism, and the struggle against patriarchy.

Through the Water A video poem dedicated to the Aztec goddess of water

DreaMachine Lullaby A short about the Iraq war from the viewpoint of an American child

Caracol A garden snail faces the forces of nature

Chiquita Gordita La Chicana Laundry Pictures own Toy Television

Sardoodledom Sentence

Death Penalty Movie Join Ms. Pickles and the gang as they take you on a funtastical journey through the history of the death penalty!

El Segundo (Spanish) Travel through the unconsciousness and dreams of a man that ends with his own death

Reception to Follow at
First Street Studios
2026 E First St Studios Los Angeles CA
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Saturday, December 8th, at Tech Center
Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center
1600 East 4th St, Los Angeles CA.

Youth Made Program, 2:00-3:00pm

Loss of Innocence in Loisaida What happens when a young man finds out his girlfriend is the pharmacist's daughter?

My Shadows

Beauty Before Violence

Youth Workshop, 3:00-4:30pm
With Stephanie Saint Sanchez of, La Chicana Laundry Pictures

No Budget, No Problem
Cinematic Adventures Anytime Anywhere an At Any Price

To include special screening of:

Un Plato Mas Fiver Food is love but it can also be a cosmic force that
unites all Abuelitas

Death Penalty Movie

Chiquita Gordita

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Sunday, December 9th
CASA 0101; 2009 East 1st St. 90033

Early Program, 1:00-2:00p.m.

Buscate un Carrito A man is attacked by an army of shopping carts in the parking lot of a mall.

Perros Sin Amor A visual exploration of an artist's inner struggle.

Red Bird an inspiring story of friendship between a young painter WWII veteran.

Tomoko's Kitchen

Doc Program 2, 3:00-5:00p.m.

Last Cry in Havana

Closing night Program, 6:00-8:00p.m.

The Passion of the Christian L'Amour

El Segundo Travel through the unconsciousness and dreams of a man that ends with his own death.

A Few Hundred Blows Life can be lonely for a misfit who never had the chance to pop a pretty girl's bubble.

La Pared defies the Mexican concept of "Macho" as it explores the nature of human instinct and the concept of cause and effect.

Brooklyn Ciccio, weighted responsibility to take care of his dying grandfather isolates his struggles with a poverty stricken environment.

Conversations II Explores the evolution of the female role in the middle class of the Latin American society.

Isabel A man is disturbed by the strange appearances of a six-year old girl.

Awards Ceremony

Reception to follow at
Eastside Luv Wine Bar y Queso

...RESERVATIONS...
Tickets for this year's festival are:
$10 General Admission
$5 Students & Boyle Heights Residents

Saturday screenings and workshop at the Boyle Heights Technology Center: FREE

To make your reservation please visit the Casa 0101 website at www.casa0101.org and click on the "reservations" link.

Fill in your information and write the specific program you wish to RSVP for in the input box for "Event/Class Name."

Super Amigos y Luchando

Once again the SF International Latino Film Festival is coming up and I want to see movies movies movies! I don't have a free pass this time but here are two movies I don't want to miss:

"Super Amigos"
Five real-life comic-book superheroes champion the causes of Mexico's oppressed in Director Arturo Perez Torres'
fun documentary, Super Amigos.
With their masked wrestling costumes, they take on the causes of tenants' rights, prevention of cruelty to animals, gay rights, and environmentalism. This heart-warming documentary shows that ordinary people can muster super human powers for change.
Super Amigos will screen at multiple Bay Area locations.

November 14 at 7pm
Skyline College
3300 College Drive, San Bruno

November 14 at 7pm
College of San Mateo
1700 W. Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo

November 17 at 3pm
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco


"Luchando" at the Mission Cultural Center, November 17
Luchando, a gritty documentary by American Director Noelle Stout, takes us behind the scenes of the gay underground in Havana. Through cinema verité footage and candid interviews, it documents the physical, psychological and emotional journeys of four queer hustlers. The camera captures their most intimate moments while revealing the fight for survival in Cuba's gay underground.
Luchando will screen at the Mission Cultural Center on November 17 at 5:30pm.