We've told you about it through interviews, features, and the Kickstarter campaign behind it. Finally, Ambulane California is here and it's kicking off with urban style Cumbia band, Viento Callejero today September 21 at MacArthur Park. Kcrw DJ Dan Wilcox is bringing the dance party to the Bowtie Project alongside the La River for the closing night event on October 4.
From September 21 – October 4, the two- week documentary tour will travel to a different neighborhood to present a free documentary event in an outdoor/alternative venue. All screening events are free and open to the public. To see the list of films, schedule and venues please visit Here and follow @AmbulanteCA.
Films in the program included Sundance's "Alive Inside" (Sept. 23), "No No: A Documentary" (Sept.26), and "Living Stars" (Sept28) ; Mexican gems "Elevator"(Sept 25) and "Three Voices" (Sept. 27 & Sept. 29); unique visions of life in America such as "Las Marthas" (Sept. 25), "To the Other Side" (Sept. 30) and " Ladonna Harris: Indian 101"(Oct.1); visually astonishing films like "Cairo Drive" (Sept.24), "Alamar" (Oct. 1) and "Bering. Balance and Resistance" (Oct. 2); and classics such as "The Exiles" (Oct.3.).
Tonight Viento Callejero will go on at 6:30pm sharp to start the dancing before the 7pm L.A. premiere screening of "Bronx Obama,"a documentary about a Puerto Rican in the Bronx who looks like the Potus. The filmmaker Ryan Murdock and subject Louis Ortiz will be on hand. The feature film is preceded by "Ink & Paper," a short documentary about a local printing press and paper store. Filmmaker Ben Proudfoot will be present.
Ambulante’s tour will culminate at the Bowtie project at Rio de Los Angeles State Park on October 3 & 4. The Closing Weekend event is in collaboration with California State Parks, Clockshop and La River Revitalization Corporation. Dan Wilcox of Kcrw will be the master of groove festivities on Saturday, October 4 following the 7pm screening of "Yakona," a stunningly cinematic environmental film by filmmakers Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda, who will be present for Q&A.
Check out the film festival trailer:
https://vimeo.com/105792099
About Dan Wilcox
Dan Wilcox delves beneath the surface of the pop music landscape to shed light on a wealth of penetrating deep-cuts. He works as a music supervisor in various films including 'As Above, So Below' and upcoming film, The Coup by The Weinstein Co. He is the featured DJ for each year’s Barnsdall Wine Tastings and will be doing their Movie Nights in October
http://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/dan-wilcox
About Viento Callejero
Los Angeles based Urban style Cumbia trio that formed in 2013. The group is composed of three talented musicians, Gloria Estrada on guitar, Federico Zuniga on bass, and Gabriel Villa on drums. Together they bring a fresh approach to urban tropical music stripping it down to feature its rawest elements. With Cumbia making a resurgence, artists have been re-mixing and re-interpreting the Classic Cumbias in dance halls all over the world. Viento Callejero represents the newest incarnation of the movement in Los Angeles, breaking down the rhythmic and melodic pulse of Cumbia Colombiana, Son Montuno, Merengue, Reggae, Dance Hall, Funk, and Rock to create a fresh sound with a new twist that is infectious to the listeners ears, hips, and feet.
www.vientocallejero.com...
From September 21 – October 4, the two- week documentary tour will travel to a different neighborhood to present a free documentary event in an outdoor/alternative venue. All screening events are free and open to the public. To see the list of films, schedule and venues please visit Here and follow @AmbulanteCA.
Films in the program included Sundance's "Alive Inside" (Sept. 23), "No No: A Documentary" (Sept.26), and "Living Stars" (Sept28) ; Mexican gems "Elevator"(Sept 25) and "Three Voices" (Sept. 27 & Sept. 29); unique visions of life in America such as "Las Marthas" (Sept. 25), "To the Other Side" (Sept. 30) and " Ladonna Harris: Indian 101"(Oct.1); visually astonishing films like "Cairo Drive" (Sept.24), "Alamar" (Oct. 1) and "Bering. Balance and Resistance" (Oct. 2); and classics such as "The Exiles" (Oct.3.).
Tonight Viento Callejero will go on at 6:30pm sharp to start the dancing before the 7pm L.A. premiere screening of "Bronx Obama,"a documentary about a Puerto Rican in the Bronx who looks like the Potus. The filmmaker Ryan Murdock and subject Louis Ortiz will be on hand. The feature film is preceded by "Ink & Paper," a short documentary about a local printing press and paper store. Filmmaker Ben Proudfoot will be present.
Ambulante’s tour will culminate at the Bowtie project at Rio de Los Angeles State Park on October 3 & 4. The Closing Weekend event is in collaboration with California State Parks, Clockshop and La River Revitalization Corporation. Dan Wilcox of Kcrw will be the master of groove festivities on Saturday, October 4 following the 7pm screening of "Yakona," a stunningly cinematic environmental film by filmmakers Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda, who will be present for Q&A.
Check out the film festival trailer:
https://vimeo.com/105792099
About Dan Wilcox
Dan Wilcox delves beneath the surface of the pop music landscape to shed light on a wealth of penetrating deep-cuts. He works as a music supervisor in various films including 'As Above, So Below' and upcoming film, The Coup by The Weinstein Co. He is the featured DJ for each year’s Barnsdall Wine Tastings and will be doing their Movie Nights in October
http://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/dan-wilcox
About Viento Callejero
Los Angeles based Urban style Cumbia trio that formed in 2013. The group is composed of three talented musicians, Gloria Estrada on guitar, Federico Zuniga on bass, and Gabriel Villa on drums. Together they bring a fresh approach to urban tropical music stripping it down to feature its rawest elements. With Cumbia making a resurgence, artists have been re-mixing and re-interpreting the Classic Cumbias in dance halls all over the world. Viento Callejero represents the newest incarnation of the movement in Los Angeles, breaking down the rhythmic and melodic pulse of Cumbia Colombiana, Son Montuno, Merengue, Reggae, Dance Hall, Funk, and Rock to create a fresh sound with a new twist that is infectious to the listeners ears, hips, and feet.
www.vientocallejero.com...
- 9/21/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and maybe even before then, there have always been U.S. Presidential celebrity impersonators. Mind you, not that it’s a really lucrative career. After all, you have only 4 years of work, or maybe 8, if you’re really lucky. So you try to take advantage of it as much as you, while you can, since you have a limited shelf life. Which brings us to Puerto Rican Bronx native, Louis Ortiz, an unemployed father of three, trying to make ends meet, who, one day, looked in the mirror and realized that he looked sort of familiar. Ortiz then started on his strange journey as the “look of a lifetime,” as a President Obama impersonator, trying...
- 9/18/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Almost a year ago, we first told you that Ambulante — the traveling documentary film festival founded by Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Elena Fortes, and Pablo Cruz — would cross the border into the U.S. almost ten years after its first edition in Mexico. Finally, the long-awaited rock tour of documentaries is about to land in Los Angeles.
The team behind Ambulante California, including the newly-appointed Director of Ambulante USA, Christine Davila, just announced their film lineup. On September 21, the festival kicks off at MacArthur Park with an outdoor screening of Bronx Obama. The doc follows the story of Puerto Rican single father, Louis Ortiz, whose uncanny resemblance to the President of the United States gives him a new lease on life as an Obama impersonator.
In total, 22 documentaries will screen at several venues across eight different neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The films represent a varied mix of topics, ranging from cultural identity to music, biographies, social justice, and environmental issues. Keeping with their mission to bring documentaries to underserved audiences, all events are free and most of them are outdoors.
In advance of the festival’s programming announcement, I spoke to Diego Luna in an exclusive interview. He shared why Los Angeles is in desperate need of this type of documentary festival, his favorite film from Ambulante California’s lineup, and his newest project, a film he is directing that’s about to start shooting.
Read the interview on Remezcla .
Written by Vanessa Erazo. LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook.
The team behind Ambulante California, including the newly-appointed Director of Ambulante USA, Christine Davila, just announced their film lineup. On September 21, the festival kicks off at MacArthur Park with an outdoor screening of Bronx Obama. The doc follows the story of Puerto Rican single father, Louis Ortiz, whose uncanny resemblance to the President of the United States gives him a new lease on life as an Obama impersonator.
In total, 22 documentaries will screen at several venues across eight different neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The films represent a varied mix of topics, ranging from cultural identity to music, biographies, social justice, and environmental issues. Keeping with their mission to bring documentaries to underserved audiences, all events are free and most of them are outdoors.
In advance of the festival’s programming announcement, I spoke to Diego Luna in an exclusive interview. He shared why Los Angeles is in desperate need of this type of documentary festival, his favorite film from Ambulante California’s lineup, and his newest project, a film he is directing that’s about to start shooting.
Read the interview on Remezcla .
Written by Vanessa Erazo. LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook.
- 9/15/2014
- by Vanessa Erazo
- Sydney's Buzz
New York-based Cargo Film & Releasing has secured international sales rights to 1971, Bronx Obama, and David & Me.
Johanna Hamilton directed 1971, which will receive its European premiere at n next week and follows a band of citizens and their fight against FBI powers.
Laura Poitras, who collaborated with Glenn Greenwald on the Edward Snowden / Nsa scoop, served as executive producer.
Bronx Obama (pictured) marks the feature directorial debut of Ryan Murdock and chronicles the life of President Obama impersonator Louis Ortiz.
Ray Klonsky and Marc Lamy co-directed the wrongful imprisonment story David & Me, which like Bronx Obama previously screened at Hot Docs.
Johanna Hamilton directed 1971, which will receive its European premiere at n next week and follows a band of citizens and their fight against FBI powers.
Laura Poitras, who collaborated with Glenn Greenwald on the Edward Snowden / Nsa scoop, served as executive producer.
Bronx Obama (pictured) marks the feature directorial debut of Ryan Murdock and chronicles the life of President Obama impersonator Louis Ortiz.
Ray Klonsky and Marc Lamy co-directed the wrongful imprisonment story David & Me, which like Bronx Obama previously screened at Hot Docs.
- 5/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
It’s not easy being President of the United States, and it’s not easy looking just like him either. In 2008, when then-Senator Barack Obama began his ascent to the White House, Louis Ortiz discovered that he had a rare and potentially valuable commodity: he was the spitting image of the future President. In Bronx Obama, we follow Ortiz as he tries to turn his doppelganger luck into a legitimate venture: from a gag he does for a couple of hundred dollars here and there, to a full-blown career as a presidential impersonator. There are a lot of documentaries about election campaigns, and there are a lot of political sketch comedies, but Bronx Obama is the bizarre love child of both.
Recall that the real Obama was elected in the midst of the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, and that there were millions and millions affected in...
Recall that the real Obama was elected in the midst of the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, and that there were millions and millions affected in...
- 4/29/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
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