Chilean Cinema at MOLAA in Los Angeles
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Prochile Los Angeles and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, in an effort to support Chilean culture and visual arts, will showcase the movie El Brindis (To Life) directed by Shai Agosin on September 11th.
The Sculpture Garden, an oasis in an urban context, designed by Architect Christopher Brown will be the atmosphere to enjoy the movie, which won the audience award at The 2008 San Diego Latino Film Festival.
It is interesting to note the close relation between Molaa and cinema, since the museum is located in the former home of Balboa Amusement Producing Company, the world’s most productive and innovative silent film studio between 1913 and 1918.
After the movie, the famous Chilean filmmaker and producer Pedro Pablo Celedón will lead a session of questions and answers with the public.
Celedón has won many awards in his career, among others: first place at The Chicago Film Festival, gold medal at The Houston International Film Festival, winner of “Coup de Coeur” prize at Avicom, France, finalist at The New York Film and Video Festivals, three tally awards and a national endowment for the humanities grant for the development of a series for the bicentennial of Latin America independence. Pedro Pablo Celedón has extensive experience with a broad range of film and television projects. He has written, produced, and directed more than 30 documentaries, television specials, and pilot programs for such clients as KCET, The J. Paul Getty Trust, Bill Viola Studios, Malcolm Forbes Inc., Partners of the Americas, Lexicon, Eco Spies Productions, and Univisión Televisión.
About El Brindis (“To Life”)
Invited by her father whom she has practically never seen in her life, Emilia, a Mexican photographer travels to Chile full of fear and insecurity feelings. There she will meet her family that will receive her with so much love as well as hypocrisy that it will show her a world she does not know.
Determined to regain her and willing for her to accept him in spite of his errors, Isidoro will show her his simple world where she will meet David, a man undergoing a deep crisis and with whom she will become more confused in her search. Emotional and subtle, "To Life" is a portrait of how the sweet and bitter life can be, and where each day is a new opportunity to reencounter ourselves with what we love the most and that sometimes we dare to look at.