FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13October M&T Bank Second Friday at the Burchfield Penney Art Center

4 PM - 5:40 PM Documentary. By Women/About Women: Treasure Island (Isla del Tesoro, 1969), Sara Gómez; Tania Libre (2017), Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Narrated by Tilda Swinton.

Introduced by: Dalia Antonia Muller, Associate Professor in Latin American and Caribbean History, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, UB 

5:30 PM- 7 PM Happy Hour. Cuban Music: Wendell Rivera, Buena Vista Social Club. Cuba and Immigration, film installations: Waters off of Caibarien (2004); An Unkept Promise

(2005), Alberto Rey, painter and filmmaker.

7 PM– 7:45 PM Cuban Poetry Reading: Jorge Guitart (Professor of Spanish, UB) and Olga Karman (Cuban-born poet and educator)

8 PM– 10:15 PM Cuban-Soviet Productions. In memory of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-2017): I am Cuba (Soy Cuba, 1964), Mikhail Kalatozov. Introduced by: Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished

Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture, Department of English, UB

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 142 PM- 4 PM Environment: Nuclear Narratives: The Project of the Century (La obra del siglo, 2015), Car-los Quintela (with scenes from One Way or Another (De Cierta Manera, 1974), Sara Gómez). Introduced by: Alberto Rey, Professor of Visual Arts and New Media, State University of New York at Fredonia

 4:30 PM- 6:30 PM Cuba and the AIDS Crisis: The Companion (El Acompañante, 2016), Pavel Giroud.

Introduced by: Christopher Schobert, critic for The Buffalo News and writer for Buffalo Spree

7 PM– 9:15 PM Old Cuba/ New Cuba Shorts. In memory of Julio Garcia Espinosa (1926-2016). Part I: Old Cuba. El Megano (1955), Julio Garcia Espinosa, Courtesy of Dolores Calviño (Espinosa), Cinemateca de Cuba; Chiaroscuro: The Making of ‘El Megano’ (2011), Stephen Hart; For the First Time (Por Primera Vez, 1967), Octavio Cortázar; Coffea Arábiga (1968), Nicolás Guillén Landrián; Now! (1965), Santiago Álvarez. Part II: New Cuba. Close (2016), animation by Ernesto Rodríguez Piña; House for Sale (Casa en Venta, 2016), Emanuel Giraldo; Connection (Conectifai, 2017), Zoe Garcia; Great (Muy Bien, 2017), Sheyla Pool. Introduced by: Richard Reitsma, Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures, Canisius College 

ABOUT THE RIVERRUN GLOBAL FILM SERIES: The riverrun Global Film Series aspires to create a dialogue between local community and institutions of higher education in Buffalo through a selection of films that provide a better understanding of our present existence in the globalized networked world. The series is produced by riverrun, Patrick Martin President; with support from the Burchfield Penney Art Center; the UB Department of English; the Juxtapositions Lecture Series; and the James Agee Chair in American Culture, SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackson.

Further information about the riverrun Global Film Series at: globalfilmseries.wordpress.com

4PM - 5:30PM  riverrun Fellows Public Presentations. Introduced by: Prof. Damien Keane

6PM - 7:00 PM Public Lecture: “Cameras in Cuba: Reflections on Revolutionary Cinema,” Ann Marie Stock, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Vice-Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, College of William and Mary

7:15PM - 9:30 PM Restored Classics: Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo, 1968), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema

Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna. Followed by a Q&A with Ann Marie Stock.  

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12

October 12-14, 2017Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York

• Free admission made possible this year by riverrun and the Burchfield Penney Art Center

• Cuban-inspired cuisine will be available at the Burchfield Café

Series Curator: Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English | riverrun President: Patrick Martin Asst. Directors: Jocelyn E. Marshall, Ajitpaul Mangat & Jake Sanders, UB English

Cuban Cinema & Culture