Description
1p: MANGU AQUí 2 / MANGU IS HERE 2
Dir. Luke Bond / USA / Comedy / World Premier / Spanish-English with subtitles
Cast: Christopher Amarante, Kevin Bencosme, Jared Mario, Haydee Rosario, Stephanie Bethancourt, Jonathan Abreu Sosa.
We follow Roberto during his teen years in New York City where faces different obstacles.
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3:30p: 1.5 MILLION
Dir. Gregory Hernandez / USA / English
Documentary highlighting the literacy crisis within the poorest congressional district of the nation that resides in the South Bronx.
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5:30p: AQUÍ ESTAMOS / HERE WE ARE
Dir.Violeta Lockhart / Dominican Republic / Documentary /70 mins / International Premiere / Spanish with English subtitles
A group of young activists challenge the status quo through a citizen candidacy and win a deputation with less than 10% of what their opponents invest. Now, from inside and outside Congress, they will try to replicate the strategy to involve more people in the defense of democracy, human rights and the environment, and thus occupy the spaces of power where they face a conservative majority.
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7:40p: DANNY 45
Dir. Gilbert De La Rosa / Dominican Republic / Fiction / Northeast Premiere /Spanish with English subtitles
Cast: Ramón Emilio Candelario, Jalsen Santana, Jose Cruz, Carlos Garcia, Antonio Melenciano, Vladimir Acevedo, Raymond Moreno, William Simon, Miguel Angel Lendor, Miguel Angel Martinez, Teo Terrero.
Based on true events, the story presents a narrative about the events of a period of terror in the most dangerous prison in the Dominican Republic carried out by "DANNY 45" and the events that led him to become the most feared inmate of “La Victoria Prison” in the mid 90's, imposing terror in this penitentiary.
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Theatre
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
