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Tacoma Film Festival Opening Night: The Infiltrators
October 3rd 6:00pm - 10:00pm
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2019 TFF Opening Night
Celebrate Opening Night of the 14th annual Tacoma Film Festival at the Pantages Theater with a community event screening of the 2019 docu-thriller THE INFILTRATORS, in partnership with local immigrant rights and anti-deportation organizations.
Doors open at 6 PM. Arrive early to enjoy refreshments and meet film fans, filmmakers, and community groups before the film.
In THE INFILTRATORS, directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera present a hybrid cinematic language, combining familiar documentary form and scripted narrative to create a new, electrifying kind of storytelling; this part thriller, part documentary style is emblematic of the innovative storytelling for which TFF has come to be known.
The film presents the stunning true story of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of young undocumented activists who, in 2012, deliberately get themselves arrested by ICE in order to infiltrate a for-profit Florida detention center and help rescue fellow undocumented immigrants being held there. This story of courage and resistance galvanizes as it exposes the injustices of America’s broken deportation system.
CONVERSATION WITH THE DIRECTOR
Matt Martinez (Director of Content for KNKX) will facilitate a discussion with director Alex Rivera after the film, including an audience Q&A.
CONNECT WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
Hear from local immigrant rights and anti-deportation activists and organizations in a resource-sharing reception before and after the film.
TFF's LARGEST COMMUNITY EVENT EVER
For the first time, the Tacoma Film Festival will kick off in the historic and beautiful downtown Tacoma Pantages Theater thanks to our partnership with Tacoma Arts Live.
DIRECTORS CHRISTINA IBARRA AND ALEX RIVERA
Cristina Ibarra is a brown border crosser and an award-winning independent filmmaker with roots along the Texas/Mexico border. Her new film, THE INFILTRATORS, a hybrid documentary and scripted narrative, received the NEXT Audience and Innovator Awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The New York Times calls her previous documentary, LAS MARTHAS, “a striking alternative portrait of border life”. It premiered on Independent Lens in 2014 and was awarded the Best US Latino Film by Cinema Tropical. US Today describes THE LAST CONQUISTADOR, her feature documentary collaboration that premiered on POV in 2008, as “heroic”. Her directorial debut, DIRTY LAUNDRY: A HOMEMADE TELENOVELA, was broadcast on PBS. She is a 2019 Soros Art and a Rauschenberg fellow.
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories for more than twenty years. His first feature film, SLEEP DEALER, won multiple awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Rivera’s second feature film, THE INFILTRATORS, won both the Audience Award and the Innovators Award in the NEXT section of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. His work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Tribeca Film Institute, Time Warner, Creative Capital, and many others. Alex studied at Hampshire College, was the Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University, and is currently a Visiting Professor of Media Studies at Queens College.
Event Details
Tacoma Film Festival Opening Night: community screening of THE INFILTRATORS
Thursday, October 3, 2019, doors at 6 PM, film at 7 PM
Pantages Theater
901 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402
Stay after the film for a conversation with director Alex Rivera
$15, tickets now available for advanced purchase online and at the box office
Celebre la noche de inauguración del 14 ° Festival anual de cine de Tacoma en el Teatro The Pantages con una proyección de la película Los Infiltrados y un evento comunitario en asociación con grupos locales de inmigración y anti-deportación.
Las puertas se abren a las 6pm. Llegue antes de la proyección para disfrutar refrescos y conocer a otros fanáticos del cine, cineastas y grupos de apoyo comunitarios.
En Los Infiltrados, las directoras Cristina Ibarra y Alex Rivera presentan un lenguaje cinematográfico que combina una forma documental familiar y una narración escrita para mapear un dominio inexplorado: dentro de un sistema de detención de inmigrantes de la era Obama. Basado en hechos reales, Los Infiltrados es tanto un relato de suspenso de una misión de alto riesgo como un retrato emocionalmente cargado de jóvenes visionarios que luchan por su comunidad. El enfoque innovador de la narración de la película en relación con un tema público crucial ejemplifica la misión de TFF de traer obras que invitan a la reflexión a nuestra comunidad.
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CONVERSACIÓN CON EL DIRECTOR
Matt Martinez (Director de Contenido, KNKX) facilitará una discusión con el director Alex Rivera después de la película, incluyendo una sesión de preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia.
ORGANIZACIONES COMUNITARIAS
Escuche y comuníquese con activistas y organizaciones locales de defensa de los derechos de los inmigrantes y contra la deportación en una recepción para compartir recursos antes y después de la película.
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