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¡Viva El Cine! at MVFF

December 27, 2016/in Film Industry, Mill Valley Film Festival, News, The Bay Area, ¡Viva El Cine!/by 1_cafilm@org-94901

¡Viva El Cine! sprung out of extensive audience research in 2012, which highlighted the changing demographic landscape of Marin, and supported the California Film Institute’s long-term vision of celebrating collaborative diversity. We began working with students and families the following year and launched the festival program in 2014. We were thrilled when, in December 2015, […]

MVFF Supports Established and Emerging Filmmakers

December 27, 2016/in News/by 1_cafilm@org-94901

Throughout its nearly forty year history, the Mill Valley Film Festival has built a well-earned reputation for fostering and sustaining relationships with emerging filmmakers who have gone on to become established names, from artists Ang Lee and Mira Nair to Gillian Armstrong and David O. Russell. A highlight from the 39th Mill Valley Film Festival […]

¡Viva El Cine! at MVFF

December 27, 2016/in Film Industry, Mill Valley Film Festival, News, The Bay Area, ¡Viva El Cine!/by 1_cafilm@org-94901

MVFF Supports Established and Emerging Filmmakers

December 27, 2016/in News/by 1_cafilm@org-94901

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¡Viva El Cine! at MVFF

December 27, 2016/in Film Industry, Mill Valley Film Festival, News, The Bay Area, ¡Viva El Cine!/by 1_cafilm@org-94901

L to R: Alejandro Escovedo, Photo credit: Allison Levenson; Gael Garcia Bernal, Photo credit: Tommy Lau; Katina Medina Mora, Photo credit: Kirke Wrench; Roberto Schneider, Photo credit: Bobby Pin; Zoe Elton, Rodrigo Reyes, Ana & Daniel Muratalla, Photo credit: Tommy Lau; Pablo Larrain, Photo credit: Allison Levenson; Matteo Norzi & fans, Photo credit: Kirke Wrench

¡Viva El Cine! sprung out of extensive audience research in 2012, which highlighted the changing demographic landscape of Marin, and supported the California Film Institute’s long-term vision of celebrating collaborative diversity.

We began working with students and families the following year and launched the festival program in 2014. We were thrilled when, in December 2015, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Marin awarded the Mill Valley Film Festival the Outstanding Business Diversity Award.

“¡Viva el Cine! celebrates the universal stories of Latino and Hispanic cultures that can be shared with an entire community and helps to build the multicultural bridges that we seek every day in our work to support Latino-owned businesses and individuals”.

-Chamber President, Cecilia Zamora

Through the ¡Viva El Cine! Initiative, MVFF has developed partnerships with various community-based organizations in Marin, including PUENTE, (a mentoring group for Latino teens in Marin), ALMA, (Association of Latino Marin Attorneys), MCOLE (Marin County Organization of Latino Employees), the Latino Council and the Canal Alliance to target divergent communities of Latinos in Marin.

Our advisory committee assisted with design and distribution of bi-lingual ¡Viva El Cine! flyers in the Canal district, Pickleweed Park and Alfred J. Boro Community Center and various Latino marketplaces around the area, furthering outreach into the Marin Latino community. Thanks to this important work, new and diverse attendees were introduced to the Mill Valley Film Festival, many coming for the first time ever.

In 2016, more than 4,000 patrons attended the ¡Viva El Cine! film screenings, which included a series of new works from Mexico as well as seminal films from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Spain—and a very special musical performance by the Alejandro Escovedo Trio at the Sweetwater Music Hall as part of the MVFF Music program.

During this year’s screening of Lupe Under The Sun, the audience was full of young Latin Americans invited by the Association of Latin Attorneys in Marin (ALMA)’s PUENTE program. Marin County Public Defender and PUENTE founder Jose Valera spearheaded this outreach, introducing a new, young audience to ¡Viva El Cine! and MVFF.

This year’s 2016 ¡Viva El Cine! films included:

Aquarius / Brazil (Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho)

Finding Oscar / US (Director: Ryan Suffern)

Icaros: A Vision / Peru, US (Directors: Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi)

The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (La Larga Noche De Francisco Sanctis) / Argentina (Directors: Francisco Marquez, Andrea Testa)

Lupe Under the Sun (Lupe Bajo el Sol) / Mexico, US (Director: Rodrigo Reyes)

Neruda / Chile, France, Spain, Argentina (Director: Pablo Larrain)

The Pleasure Is Mine (El Placer Es Mio) / Mexico (Director: Elisa Miller)

Visitor’s Day (Día de Visita) / Mexico (Director: Nicole Opper)

You Will Know What To Do With Me (Sabrás que hacer conmigo) / Mexico (Director: Katina Medina Mora)

You’re Killing Me, Susana (Me estas matando Susana) / Mexico, Canada (Director: Roberto Sneider)

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Thank you to our numerous supporters and audiences for being part of ¡Viva El Cine! And helping us celebrate collaborative diversity through film.

MVFF Supports Established and Emerging Filmmakers

December 27, 2016/in News/by 1_cafilm@org-94901

Photo Credit: Lionsgate Publicity

A highlight from the 39th Mill Valley Film Festival was filmmaker Damien Chazelle, here with his third film, La La Land, an appropriately glamorous musical romance to kick off our Opening Night festivities. Chazelle had previously attended the Festival in 2009 with his first feature, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (MVFF32), and again in 2014 with his highly acclaimed, Academy Award® -winning second film, Whiplash (MVFF37).

Damien talked about his history with us on Opening Night:

“The first time I was here at the Mill Valley Film Festival was with a really low budget, basically a student film, that I had done (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench), but it was a musical – or it was trying to be a musical – and it was about, to me, the idea of trying to marry the musical in the height of the old Hollywood musicals that I loved – to real life.

And it was the beginning of that sort of attempt on my part, and it was the first movie I did with my composer, Justin Hurwitz. And as soon as we were done with that movie, we started talking about trying to do another one, but on a bigger scale. Flash forward nine or ten years or so, and we finally got the chance to make this.

So, getting to make it was a dream, getting to bring it to this Festival where we were both back with that earlier film, was a dream.”

-Damien Chazelle, Opening Night, 39th Mill Valley Film Festival

Since La La Land opened MVFF, we have been thrilled to see its success as it has gone on to be nominated for Best Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, and has been nominated for both Outstanding Performance for Male and Female Lead by the Screen Actors Guild!

Indeed, keep an eye out for other MVFF39 films and filmmakers receive critical acclaim since the Festival, including Moonlight, Loving, 20th Century Women, Lion, Jackie, Neruda, Toni Erdmann, Things to Come, Elle, The Salesman, Manchester by the Sea, A Man Called Ove and The Eagle Huntress.

Let’s all cheer them on to even greater acclaim during the awards season!