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Colectivo Cinema Errante presents: “Los Bastardos” (Amat Escalante, Mexico/France/US 2008)
Spanish audio/ English Subtitles.

This topical crime drama centers on the hardscrabble lives of two undocumented Mexican immigrants driven to the edge by the constant exploitation and humiliation they’re forced to endure in their new country. Fed up with the mistreatment, Jesus (Jesús Moisés Rodríguez) and Fausto (Rubén Sosa) decide to exact a little revenge by invading the home of an unsuspecting housewife and taking her hostage.

The film was part of the official selection in Cannes 2008, and Escalante’s highly anticipated new film “Heli” is expected to show in Cannes 2011.

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anywayEnjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

More Info: contact Katy at ataopenscreening@atasite.org

Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King spent almost a century between themin solitary confinement in Angola, the Louisiana State penitentiary. They are known as the Angola 3. Herman and Albert are still in solitary confinement after thirty seven years.
In the Land of the Free… is a documentary feature narrated by Samuel L Jackson that examines the story of these extraordinary men who were targeted by the prison authorities for being members of the Black Panther Party and because they fought againstthe terrible conditions and systematic sexual slavery that was rife in the prison. Directed by Vadim Jean; produced by Gold Circle Films (My Big Fat GreekWedding). 2010, 84 min.

Join us for an update on the case and discussion with Marina Drummer from the NationalCommittee to Free the Angola 3.