Mexico on the Hudson Panel:
New York City’s Mexican Community on the Big Screen
Join filmmakers Armando Croda and Linsdey Cordero (Firmes; I’m Leaving Now) and scholar Luis Bernardo Quesada for a conversation on the multiple cinematic representations of the Mexican community in New York City and the nuances of its local and international impact. Moderated by Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Executive Director, Cinema Tropical.
Tuesday, June 15, 5pm - 7:30pm on Facebook Live
Panelists:
Director and producer Lindsey Cordero is a Mexican filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Cordero's work focuses mainly on immigration, survival and identity of undocumented Mexicans living in New York. She is director of the documentary I’m Leaving Now (Ya Me Voy) which is world premiering at Hot Docs April, 2018. Cordero is producer of the feature film En El Séptimo Día (2017) written and directed by Jim McKay, which had its international debut at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival and will be released in theaters June, 2018. She worked as additional editor and sound mixer on the documentary feature Havana Motor Club (2015) directed by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films. She is co-director of the TV documentary Firmes, Mexicans In The Bronx (Nat Geo Latino, 2013) about a group of Mexican undocumented immigrants who left the gang life behind and formed a Lowrider car club in the Bronx, NY. Cordero received the 2015 Princess Grace Film Honorarium for her film I’m Leaving Now (Ya Me Voy). She holds a Bachelor Degree in Anthropology and an MFA at from the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College of The City University of New York.
Originally from Mexico, Armando Croda has been working in art and film in the US, Europe and Mexico for the past 15 years. He premiered his documentary I’m Leaving Now (Ya me voy) at Hot Docs 2018 and edited the documentary Out of Many, One (2018) for Netflix by John Hoffman and Nanfu Wang. He also edited the documentary Jay Myself (2018) on the iconic New York City photographer Jay Maisel, and the three channel documentary Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017) by Naeem Mohaiemen. He edited the feature documentary Samantha and her Amazing Acrocats (2017) by Jacob Fiering. He was additional cinematographer and editor of the documentary Havana Motor Club (2015) by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, about Cuba’s top drag racers and their quest to hold the first official race since the revolution that premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Co-director, cinematographer and editor of the tv documentary Firmes, Mexicans in the Bronx (2013) for Nat Geo Latino, about undocumented Immigrants who have left the gang life behind and formed a Lowrider car club on the East Coast. Armando also completed the feature film, Victorio (2008) as co-director and editor, which was awarded Opera Prima at the Guanajuato Film Festival, and screened in various festivals in Europe and Latin America, including Valencia, Huelva, St. Petersburg, Havana and selected for the Human Right competition in Bilbao film festival.
Luis Bernardo Quesada is a PhD Candidate in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He studied Sociology at the Universidad de Guadalajara, and a masters degree in Language Sciences at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City. He currently teaches Linguistic Anthropology at Queens College, CUNY.
Carlos A. Gutiérrez, moderator, is co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical, the New York-based media arts non-profit organization that has become the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the U.S. As a guest curator, he has presented several film/video series at different cultural institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, Film at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, BAMcinématek, and Anthology Film Archives. In 2007, he co-curated the 53rd edition of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and serves as co-director of the Tucson Cine Mexico film festival. He is a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine, a member of Film Forum’s Board of Directors, and has served as a member of the jury for various film festivals including Morelia, SANFIC, Seattle, Margaret Mead, DocsMX, and Austin’s Cine Las Americas. He has served as both expert nominator and panelist for the Rockefeller Fellowship Program for Mexican Film & Media Arts, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute’s Latin America Media Arts Fund, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
