Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to partner with Cinema Tropical to launch ‘Las Premieres,’ a new ongoing screening series featuring `sneak previews of upcoming Latin American and U.S. Latinx film releases. The series kicks off with Alexis Gambis’s Sundance hit Son of Monarchs, with Gambis in person, at the Museum Thursday, October 7. Following that, Alonso Ruizpalacios’s A Cop Movie, will screen on Friday, October 15 with Ruizpalacios in person.
“After two decades of collaborating on film programming, we’re thrilled to be working with our friends at Cinema Tropical on an ongoing series showcasing vital new works of Latin America film. Considering the constantly changing theatrical landscape, it’s an ideal time to ensure these films get the spotlight they deserve, in front of an eager and engaged New York audience,” says Eric Hynes, the Museum’s Curator of Film.
“We're thrilled to partner with Museum of the Moving Image in its exciting new project and share some of the most recent films from Latin American and U.S. Latinx directors with our combined audiences,” says Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Executive Director of Cinema Tropical.
All films will screen at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106. Advance tickets are available at movingimage.us (unless noted, tickets are $15 with discounts for seniors, students, youth, and MoMI members). Additional titles will be announced on MoMI’s website.
Thursday, October 7, 7pm
SON OF MONARCHS / HIJO DE MONARCAS
(Alexis Gambis, Mexico/USA, 2021, 97 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
With Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Alexia Rasmussen, Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez.
With director Alexis Gambis in person.
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Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Son of Monarchs follows a butterfly biologist (Mejia of Sin Nombre and Narcos) as he returns from New York to his hometown in the monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán, Mexico. Issues surrounding identity, migration, transfiguration, and science punctuate this poetic film. Join us for a special preview screening in advance of the film’s premiere on HBO Max. View trailer.
This program is also presented in partnership with the Imagine Science Film Festival and is part of the Museum’s ongoing Science on Screen series.
Friday, October 15, 7pm — Free Preview Screening
A COP MOVIE / UNA PELÍCULA DE POLICÍAS
(Alonso Ruizpalacios. Mexico, 2021, 107 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
With director Alonso Ruipalacios in person.
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios takes us deep into the Mexican police force with the story of Teresa and Montoya, together known as “the love patrol.” In this thoroughly original and unpredictable documentary, Ruizpalacios plays with the boundaries of nonfiction and immerses the audience in the human experience of police work within a dysfunctional system. A Cop Movie propels the viewer into an unusual cinematic space, giving voice to one of Mexico’s—and the world’s—most controversial institutions. A Netflix film, A Cop Movie opens in theaters October 20 and will begin streaming on Netflix on November 5. View trailer.
