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This Year’s Festival Will Tour Around New York’sTri-State Area Presenting 24 Screenings in Manhattan, Queens,
Brooklyn, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland, With Special Guests June 9-17, 2017
MARAVILLA, the New York-based organization dedicated to raising awareness of Latin America through films and the arts, has announced the third annual edition of the ECUADORIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK.
The competitive film festival, the first of its kind in the world dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the burgeoning cinema of Ecuador, will take place JUNE 9-17 in seven different venues across
New York’s Tri-State area: VILLAGE EAST CINEMAS in Manhattan; QUEENS MUSEUM; SYNDICATED BAR THEATER KITCHEN in Brooklyn; THE PICTURE HOUSE in Pelham; the PLAZA ART CENTER in Patchogue; CINEMA ARTS CENTRE in
Huntington; and RAMAPO ART AND CULTURAL CENTER in Spring Valley.
This year’s festival will present ten feature-length and eight short
films in their U.S. or New York premiere, with the presence of the filmmakers. The festival will open with the North American premiere of the documentary feature MY AUNT TOTY (Mi tía Toty) by LEÓN
FELIPE TROYA, a portrait of Toty Rodríguez, the Ecuadorian actress who made her career in France in the 1960s who became a well-known diva in the South American country, and an icon of the women’s rights
movement in the country.
Other highlights of the festival’s third edition include the Rotterdam Film Festival favorite ALBA, the auspicious debut feature by ANA CRISTINA BARRAGÁN, the Ecuadorian candidate to the 88th Academy Awards SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS Sin muertos no hay carnaval by SEBASTIÁN CORDERO, and ALEXANDRA CUESTA’s
TERRITORIO, which had its world premiere at FID Marseille last year.
Expected to attend this year’s edition are 20 guests including directors Cordero and Barragán, and actors TOTY RODRIGUEZ, ANDRÉS CRESPO, and ROBERTO MANRIQUE.
EFFNY will present two awards. A jury composed of renowned film professionals composed by film programmer and documentary filmmaker MARÍA CAMPAÑA, Tribeca Film Festival’s LORREN HAMMONDS and film
scholar MARGUERITA TORTORA, founder and director of the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale, will present the award for Best Film, and the public attending the screenings will vote for the Audience
Award.
The Ecuadorian Film Festival in New York is produced in partnership with Brooklyn’s Syndicated Bar Theater Kitchen, and made possible thanks to the generous support of the Ministry of Culture of Ecuador
and Telemundo 47. In addition, it is supported by the Queens Museum,
Cinema Tropical, Café Velez, Santana, Hoja Verde, Botánica and jetBlue. _
Official Website:
www.ecuadorianfilmfest.com
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