Spanish language film based in Central America
Fundraiser for ACF overseas projects
See the Spanish language film "Men With Guns" by John
Sayles, at Cinema Como in Melbourne or Verona Cinema in Sydney,
and $3 will be donated to ACF permaculture projects in Cuba and
Central America if you present this notice (or similar) at the
box office, at any session between Thursday 18 February to Sunday 21
February 1999.
See
http://www.pegasus.com.au/~adamt/cuba
for photos and articles on
the ACF Permaculture Projects in Latin American.
This offer is valid for full price adult tickets only, and excludes
the Saturday night session.
Call the cinemas for session times or the info line 03 9416 2625
at ACF for other information on this fundraiser.
CINEMA COMO
Cnr Toorak Rd & Chapel St, Sth Yarra, Melbourne
(03) 9827-7533
VERONA CINEMAS
17 Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney
(02) 9360-6099
About the film
One of America's most progressive film-makers learned Spanish to be able to
make this film, set in a fictional Central American country
whose history and people resemble Guatemala.
The title Hombres Armados refers to the lot of poorest indigenous
villages which one week may be visited by "Men with Guns" from the government
armed forces, taking their pigs and conscripting their teenage boys,
and then the next week, visited by "Men with Guns" from the liberating
guerrilla, who need food and young men, and ask
"who has cooperated with the enemy?"
The next week, bandits, "Men with Guns", may arrive...
For a synopsis from the makers of the film, go to
http://www.spe.sony.com/classics/menwithguns/synopsis.html
For information on the Writer, Director and Editor, see the page about
John Sayles
at
http://www.spe.sony.com/classics/menwithguns/johnsayles.html
The Film Music
Last weekend, you may have heard some of the incredible music from the
film played on ABC radio stations. Whilst most of the music is Colombian,
it represents the full range of the most diverse of
cultures from which Latin America has arisen
- an indigenous people who migrated across the land bridge from Asia
1000s of years ago, invaded by Spaniards and Catholic missionaries,
then other Europeans, who then brought millions of Africans...
some haunting, some vibrant, some arcane, some modern, some tortured,
some joyous...
Thanks to
Palace Films
for supporting the
Australian Conservation Foundation
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