Screenings just past, and screenings coming up

We had a screening last Friday in la Peña Cultural Center, in Berkeley, CA (across the bay from San Francisco).  We´re having ANOTHER screening this coming Thursday in the Arlington Café in Kensington, CA (also across the bay from San Francisco).  If you didn´t make the first one, you can always come to the second one.

MC Hershell West and filmmaker Eve A. Ma at last Friday´s event.

Last Friday´s screening was for our documentary, A Zest for Life:  Afro-Peruvian Rhythms, a Source of Latin Jazz.  In addition to the documentary, we had a lively and fun performance by de Rompe y Raja, the group featured in the documentary.  We also gave one brave soul a mini-lesson in Afro-Peruvian zapateo footwork.  He had to get up on the stage and take this lesson in front of the whole audience.  And he did a great job.

To read more about this past event and see more photos, check out our blog Afro-peruvian.blogspot.com.  Here´s the LINK.

Our screening this upcoming Thursday will be of a portion (or if the audience demands it, all) of our current most important work-in-progress, Domino:  Caught in the Crisis.  This is a dramatic narrative rather than a documentary.  It´ll run about 40 minutes when completed...and is NEARLY complete now.  We expect to be able to release it this summer.

From Domino:  the lottery ticket seller and our hero, Luis (Antonio de la Malena).

The screening is being presented by MAW (Media Art Works) as part of their monthly series, EBMMSC (East Bay Media Makers´ Screening Club).

If you want to be part of the making of a film by influencing how it´s going to look in the final edit, come to the event and give the filmmaker some feedback.   (The filmmaker is yours truly, otherwise known as Eve A. Ma).  The event, which is free and open to the public, starts at 6:30pm.  The venue, Arlington Café, is located at 269 Arlington Ave. in "downtown" Kensington, next door to Mechanics Bank.

See you there!

OUR NEXT BLOG will be about musical instruments.