The Spanish Film Club by Pragda's film series Discover New Trends in Ibero American Cinema will screen From The Land To Your Table (Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela/2011) on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, at 6 pm in Klarman Auditorium. Admission is free.
Hosted by the Department of Romance Studies in collaboration with the Society for the Humanities and the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of Pragda, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, and SPAIN arts & culture.
This film series runs February 7–March 7, 2018.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
FROM THE LAND TO YOUR TABLE (¿Qué culpa tiene el tomate?)
Alejo Hoijman, Marcos Loayza, Josué Méndez, Carolina Navas, Paola Vieira, Alejandra Szeplaki, Jorge Coira / Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain / 107 min / 2011 / Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Aymara with English Subtitles
What do you get when you take seven directors from seven different countries with seven different cultures and points of view? From the Land to Your Table is the first documentary of its kind in that it shows the perspectives of seven majorly talented filmmakers and directors from all over Latin America as they capture the conditions and cultural diversity of popular produce markets in their individual countries.