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“La Marca del Zorrillo” at Handball Court Summer Film Festival

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THE FOURTH ANNUAL

HANDBALL COURT

SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL

AT SUNSET (8:30PM) IN WHITE PARK
East 106th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues

This summer, MediaNoche’s Handball Court Summer Film Festival will present vintage films that screened in Spanish Harlem four decades ago. While today not a single theater remains, there once were six within a 20 block radius of the handball court on East 106th Street: The Azteca on 102nd Street and Madison Avenue, The Eagle on Third Avenue, between 102nd and 103rd Streets, La Estrella on 107th and Lexington Avenue, El Paraiso (“El Meito”) on Madison Avenue and 116th Street, the Cosmos on 116th Street, between Third and Lexington Avenues, and The Sun on Third Avenue and 118th Street. During their heyday, they were multipurpose theaters where film screenings were scheduled along with live performances.

These theaters showcased an international roster of actors, singers and other entertainers from the Caribbean and Latin America, appealing to the tastes of the Puerto Rican diaspora which by the sixties had become a significant market for Latino entertainment in the Northeast. The vintage films reflect a long term relationship between the Puerto Rican community and its Latin American entertainers. Lucha Libre films, the Mexican genre featuring a wrestler as superhero, for example, are fondly remembered by Spanish Harlem residents — and currently satirized in the new Hollywood film Nacho Libre. In addition, films shot in Spanish Harlem will also be featured.

La Marca del Zorrillo


July 1 — Santo contra Capulina, comedy in Spanish
July 8 — Tin Tan’s La Marca del Zorrillo, comedy in Spanish
July 15 — The Pawnbroker, drama in English
July 22 — Ansiedad, drama in Spanish with Pedro Infante and Libertad Lamarque
July 29 — Our Latin Thing, musical concert in Spanish with English subtitles
August 5 — Cantinflas’ Romeo y Julieta, comedy in Spanish
August 12 — Santo contra las mujeres vampiros, drama in Spanish
August 19 — Popi, drama in English
August 26 — Crossover Dreams, drama in English

For more information call: 212.828.0401 or email info@prdream.com

MediaNoche is a project of PRdream.com. We reserve the right to modify the film program without prior notice.
Program notes by Judith Escalona, Film Curator — ©jescalona2006 All Rights Reserved

THE FOURTH ANNUAL HANDBALL COURT SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL

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THE FOURTH ANNUAL

HANDBALL COURT

SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL

AT SUNSET (8:30PM) IN WHITE PARK
East 106th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues

This summer, MediaNoche’s Handball Court Summer Film Festival will present vintage films that screened in Spanish Harlem four decades ago. While today not a single theater remains, there once were six within a 20 block radius of the handball court on East 106th Street: The Azteca on 102nd Street and Madison Avenue, The Eagle on Third Avenue, between 102nd and 103rd Streets, La Estrella on 107th and Lexington Avenue, El Paraiso (“El Meito”) on Madison Avenue and 116th Street, the Cosmos on 116th Street, between Third and Lexington Avenues, and The Sun on Third Avenue and 118th Street. During their heyday, they were multipurpose theaters where film screenings were scheduled along with live performances.

These theaters showcased an international roster of actors, singers and other entertainers from the Caribbean and Latin America, appealing to the tastes of the Puerto Rican diaspora which by the sixties had become a significant market for Latino entertainment in the Northeast. The vintage films reflect a long term relationship between the Puerto Rican community and its Latin American entertainers. Lucha Libre films, the Mexican genre featuring a wrestler as superhero, for example, are fondly remembered by Spanish Harlem residents — and currently satirized in the new Hollywood film Nacho Libre. In addition, films shot in Spanish Harlem will also be featured.


July 1 — Santo contra Capulina, comedy in Spanish
July 8 — Tin Tan’s La Marca del Zorrillo, comedy in Spanish
July 15 — The Pawnbroker, drama in English
July 22 — Ansiedad, drama in Spanish with Pedro Infante and Libertad Lamarque
July 29 — Our Latin Thing, musical concert in Spanish with English subtitles
August 5 — Cantinflas’ Romeo y Julieta, comedy in Spanish
August 12 — Santo contra las mujeres vampiros, drama in Spanish
August 19 — Popi, drama in English
August 26 — Crossover Dreams, drama in English

For more information call: 212.828.0401 or email info@prdream.com

MediaNoche is a project of PRdream.com. We reserve the right to modify the film program without prior notice.
Program notes by Judith Escalona, Film Curator — ©jescalona2006 All Rights Reserved

FILIBERTO: Entrevista Clandestina

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Join the RICANSTRUCTION NETWERK for a special screening of:
FILIBERTO: Entrevista Clandestina
(an interview conducted with the leader of the Macheteros when he was in clandestinity in the 1990s)

on Friday, June 23d at 7:30PM

at:

DeBurgos-Woodbey-Pietri People’s Cafe
339 Lafayette Street (top floor/ring buzzer 11)
(corner Bleecker Street) in Manhattan

This screening will be followed by a conversation with former Young Lord Carlito Rovira on the past, present and future of the Puerto Rican liberation struggle.

for more info: 212-696-6804

SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

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PRdream/MediaNoche

SUMMER 2006 WORKSHOP SERIES

SCREENWRITING:  THE BASICS

WITH

WRITER/TEACHER

FRANK ALGARIN

This intensive workshop will provide the techniques and tools necessary for turning your idea into a screenplay.

We will cover: The concept and idea, the pitch, dramatic structure, creating authentic characters, scene writing, the outline and treatment, screenplay formatting – and more

You will turn your idea into an outline for a feature length screenplay and write the first scenes of your script.

The workshop will include lectures, discussions, screenings, exercises, assignments, resources and handouts.

TUESDAYS, 6:00PM – 8:30PM

8 sessions: June 20 – August 8, 2006

Course Fee: $250

@

PRdream/MediaNoche

161 East 106th Street, First Floor
(Between Lexington and Third Avenue) NYC

For more information and to register:

Call (212) 828-0401

Email: info@prdream.com

Frank Algarín has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Screenwriting/Playwrighting Fellowship, a Louis A. Delgado Playwrighting Award and was a 2004 MetLife Nuestras Voces / Repertorio Español Playwrighting finalist. Frank has been an Adjunct Screenwriting Professor at The New School since 2001. He has taught Screenwriting at PRdream/MediaNoche and to individual clients. He has taught dramatic writing for over ten years and currently also teaches Poetry and Spoken Word. He has taught Film, Playwrighting, Media Literacy and Creative Writing as well.

http://www.prdream.com

Empowering community through technology

UN Special Committee on Decolonization of PR

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6th Annual Peoples’ Reception for Puerto Rico Delegation and
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign Invites You To Join:


Ismael Guadalupe, Viequense Leader/Freedom Fighter
Ramon Nenadich, National Congress for the Decolonization of Puerto Rico (CONADE)
Licenciado Nelson Rochet Santoro, CONADE
Licenciado Manuel Rodríguez, Spokesperson, Socialist Front of Puerto Rico & Other Ant-Colonial, Pro-Vieques, Pro-Independence, And Political Prisoner Activist Presenters Before The 2006 United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization Hearings This year.

Monday June 12, 2006
Hunter College West Building
Room 217, 2nd Floor
68th St. & Lexington Avenue, Manhattan
#6 Lexington Avenue train to Hunter College
68th Street Stop

6:30pm-7pm Reception
7:00pm-9pm Panel Presentations/Comments/Questions & Answers

Perspectives & Updates:
Vieques Landgrab: The Second Invasion!
Crisis & Bankruptcy of the Colonial Model in Puerto Rico Continues.
Attacks on Workers and the Labor Movement.
FBI Repression of the Independence Movement/Colonial Government Complicity.
Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
Puerto Rican Students/Youth Lead The Fight Back.

Donation Requested/No One Turned Away
All Proceeds Go To:
Antonio Camacho Freedom Fund
Commissary For the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
and Prisoners of War

CBS The Early Show

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Monday, June 12th, 7:30am, 5th Ave & 59th St.

In honor of Sunday’s parade, CBS would like to extend an invitation to the Puerto Rican community to be apart of our live national audience on the plaza. In addition to being a fun experience in general, it could also provide national publicity for orginizations and community groups.

For information please contact us at (212) 975 – 2890 or Blakes@cbsnews.com

CORT(H)ITOS AT MEDIANOCHE

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Free Screenings of the CIRCA 2006 Short Films Program

Direct from San Juan, Puerto Rico! Come see the latest in Caribbean
and Latin American short films! Curated by Carmen Oquendo-Villar

June 9 – 11
7PM – 9PM
Friday, Saturday and Sunday

At MediaNoche

161 East 106th Street, First Floor

(between Lexington and Third Avenues)

For more info: 212.828.0401

Directions: Take IRT #6 train to 103rd Street, walk North 3 blocks,
and turn right.

Tato Torres & YERBABUENA

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New York City’s Hottest Boricua Roots Music Crew:
Tato Torres & YERBABUENA
bring the best Boricua Roots Music in town to the world famous
NUYORiCAN POEtS CafE in the heart of Loisaida (Lower East Side), NYC.

Come enjoy the sounds of YERBABUENA’s Bomba, Plena & Lelolay.

Saturday, June 10th & the 2nd Saturday of Every Month – 10:00 PM
Cover: $10

NUYORiCAN POEtS CafE
236 Rev Pedro Pietri Way
(E 3rd St between Ave B and Ave C), Loisaida, NYC, NY 10009

www.nuyorican.org
A new Puerto Rican generation is embracing their traditional musical expressions. YERBABUENA is the product of everything that leads to a contemporary Boricua (Puerto Rican) musical experience. It features the reality of a contemporary urban Boricua musical expression deeply rooted within tradition and community. YERBABUENA is a living link in the eternal chain that binds all generations; past, present and future in the same place and time.