Join us for free screenings and conversation at BRIC House. BRIC FLIX offers premieres, shorts, new media projects and web series that all reflect the diversity and vibrancy of Brooklyn. Each screening is followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, artists, curators and more.
BRIC, in partnership with Cinema Tropical and the New York Latino Film Summit, present a special edition of the conversational series TropiChat, featuring Latino filmmakers that call Brooklyn home. In the past few years, New York City has become an influential international hub for U.S.-born and foreign-born Latino filmmakers working in different platforms and experimenting with different narratives. TropiChat: Latin-o-American, the Brooklyn Edition, will bring together some of the most representative local Latino filmmakers to engage in a critical dialogue about film practices, professional challenges, identity labels, and what does it mean to be a Latino filmmaker in New York in 2016.
Moderator:
Carlos A. Gutiérrez is co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical, the New York-based media arts non-profit organization that has become the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the U.S. As a guest curator, he has presented several film/video series at different cultural institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, BAMcinématek, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, among others. In 2007, he co-curated the 53rd edition of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar under the banner “South of the Other". He is a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine and has served as a member of the jury for various film festivals including Morelia, SANFIC, DocsDF, and Austin’s Cine Las Americas. He has served as both expert nominator and panelist for the Rockefeller Fellowship Program for Mexican Film & Media Arts, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute’s Latin America Media Arts Fund, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Panelists:
Haitian-Panamanian author, filmmaker and artist, Michèle Stephenson is a co-founding team member of Rada Film Group with spouse Joe Brewster, created with the mission of telling stories about communities that have been neglected by the mainstream media and contribute to the American narrative mosaic. Brewster and Stephenson have directed and produced documentary and fiction films. American Promise, their most recent documentary feature premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking, and was also an official selection of the New York Film Festival. The film was also winner of the Full Frame Festival Grand Jury Prize, the Hot Springs Film Festival Best Documentary Award, and the PUMA Britdoc Impact Award. Stephenson’s work has appeared on PBS, Showtime, MTV, and other broadcast, cable and digital outlets. She and her work have received numerous honors, including the African American Film Critics’ Association Award and the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Digital Media and three Emmy nominations.
A graduate from the School of Visual Arts, Daniel Maldonado is an award winning filmmaker who through the early exploration of identity, found his reality through the lenses of contrast. He was directed and produced several short films, which have been screened in numerous international film festivals including Buttercup, Kings, and Pacifier. In 2001, Daniel completed the award winning 10,082, an experimental documentary as well as Stickers-2004 which picked up an award for Best Cinematography and was favorably featured on IFC News. His short film Lalo, was presented with the Best Short Film Award at the HBO/NY Latino International Film Festival and was broadcasted on the SiTV/Nuvo TV cable network. He recently premiered his debut feature film H.O.M.E. starring Jeremy Ray Valdez and Jesús Ochoa at the Queens World Interntational Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Feature Narrative.
Lalo Molina is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker with an ample experience as a dynamic and professional camera operator and video editor and with a versatile track record in shooting and editing creative videos and web content for broadcast TV News, online media companies and advertising/PR agencies, including HBO, MundoFOX, Turner TV, Univision, Meredith, Yahoo, FIFA and HITN. His debut feature film Actors of Sound, a documentary film about foley artists—the unsung heroes of movie sound effects— will premiere at the L.A. Film Festival this June.
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Venue Information:
The Stoop at BRIC House is a public cultural gathering space featuring free, drop-in programming, and offering a place to sit, observe, and participate in multi-disciplinary work.
Beginning Nov. 1, 2022, attendees of any BRIC House programming will no longer have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to enter the building. Masks are encouraged but not required in all BRIC operated spaces. If you have questions regarding this protocol, please email Safety@bricartsmedia.org
