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“Punto de Encuentro” (2022) Film Screening
September 22, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$5 – $20
Join us for the West Coast Premiere of “Punto de Encuentro” (2022)! Event includes community discussion with director/producer Paulina Costa. Please be on time, doors open at 6:30pm! Film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
- TICKETS AVAILABLE AT bit.ly/lapenafilmscreening
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“Punto de Encuentro” (“Meeting Point”) is a film directed by Roberto Baeza (2022) that reveals the intimate process between filmmakers Alfredo and Paulina, as they attempt to recreate what their fathers experienced in Villa Grimaldi.
We are going to be screening the film (for the first time ever on the West Coast) and after that Paulina Costa (director/producer) will be joining us virtually for a moderated community discussion!
This event is part of our month-long commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. This painful historical event marks the origin of La Peña as a community center and, to this day, it is the backbone of our mission to promote social justice and intercultural understanding through the arts. Please get your ticket and support our 50th Commemoration. Your ticket includes popcorn!
Event coordinated in collaboration with María José Calderon and Kathleen Vickery.
MORE ABOUT THE FILM:
– Country: Chile
– Release: 2022
– Director: Roberto Baeza
– Cast: Cecilia Muñoz, Félix Villar, Vicente Baeza, Cloe Baeza, Claudia Navarrete, Pablo Medina
– Language: Spanish with English subtitles
– Duration: 90 minutes
– Synopsis: Filmmakers Alfredo García and Paulina Costa were babies when both of their fathers were taken by the forces of Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. Together their fathers were held in a small cell within Villa Grimaldi, one of the most notorious torture centres of that era. During their imprisonment, their fathers forged an unbreakable friendship, but only one of them, Paulina’s father, survived to return to his family. Now, 45 years later, the filmmakers and their families reconstruct the last days before their fathers were detained and what lay in store for them in captivity. With actors recreating those experiences on set, this film within a film unfolds as three generations of the two families witness the past play out before their eyes. Filmed as Chile rises once more with a strong social movement against a repressive state, Meeting Point reveals the power of memory in the ongoing struggle for truth, justice and understanding the long-term effects of state terrorism.”
– Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogbsiK4xyXY
Sinopsis en español: “Punto de Encuentro” nos revela el proceso íntimo de Alfredo y Paulina, dos cineastas que intentan filmar una película para reconstruir lo que vivieron sus padres en Villa Grimaldi, un emblemático centro de tortura de la dictadura de Pinochet. Sus padres forjaron una profunda amistad compartiendo una celda en ese lugar, pero solo uno sobrevivió, el otro es hasta hoy un desaparecido.
Los cineastas involucran a sus familias en los ensayos y el rodaje con los actores, revelando tras las cámaras las consecuencias de esta historia en tres generaciones: en los padres y madres que sobrevivieron, en las contradicciones de los realizadores como hijos; y en la mirada ingenua de los más pequeños, que son testigos de este ejercicio de memoria familiar, que revela los matices de una herencia y las huellas emocionales de lo que pasó.