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10TH CINE LAS AMERICAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALThe best in Latino and Indigenous cinema of the Americas, April 19 - 26 | Austin, Texas. ABOUT THE FESTIVALCine Las Americas is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2007. As we reach this important milestone it is our privilege to present to you the 10th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, and extend an invitation to immerse yourself in eight days of screenings and special events from April 19 to 26. 2007 NARRATIVE JURORSThe 10th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival grants Jury awards for Best Narrative Feature and Best Narrative Short. Audience Awards are also granted for Narrative Features. blackhorse lowe
beto gómez
2007 DOCUMENTARY JURORSThe 10th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival grants Jury awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short. Audience Awards are also granted for Documentary Features. hector galán
n. bird runningwater
hans-martin liebing
PHOTO GALLERIESnew visions/works in progress
filmmakers and screenings
after parties
OTHER 2007 COVERAGEopening night: featuring el violin and award-winning actor gerardo taracena
Read more... who killed the white llama? interview
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This project is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. Cine Las Americas © 1997 - 2007 | ||
Filmmaker Larry Blackhorse Lowe was raised in Nenahnezad on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. His feature 5TH WORLD premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has screened at over 20 film festivals, including First Nations/First Features at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as well as the All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Despite a larger canvas, Lowe’s technique, style, and soul as a filmmaker remain true to himself and his family, and he challenges himself to make movies in accord to his inspirations and in a true independent spirit. Lowe’s journey as a filmmaker continues with LEFT HANDED PATH, the script with which he participated in the Writer’s and Producers Lab of the Sundance Film Institute in the summer of 2006.
Filmmaker Beto Gómez was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, and spent most of his early years in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, before settling in Guadalajara. He studied at the Vancouver Film School and has worked in the North American and European film industries. His feature films include HASTA EL ULTIMO TRAGO... CORAZON!, PUÑOS ROSAS, EL SUEÑO DEL CAIMAN, and EL AGUJERO. His next film, EL SOLDADO PEREZ, is currently in development.
Hector Galán, a Tejano from San Angelo, Texas, has contributed over forty hours to national PBS television, including eleven episodes for FRONTLINE, two programs for PBS’s The American Experience, and the landmark PBS series Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, which screened at the White House for President Clinton. Galán has garnered numerous awards including two Imagen Awards, the Cine Golden Eagle Award, the Telly Award, SXSW Best Documentary, the Golden Apple, and the Blue Ribbon Award. Galán has taught production and editing workshops throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, and served as a mentor of the CPB Producer’s Academy and the NALIP Producers Academy. 
Born of the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache peoples, N. Bird Runningwater was reared on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. He is currently the Associate Director of Native American and Indigenous Initiatives with the Sundance Institute, serves on the board of directors for Re:New Media and as an advisor to Film Independent’s Project: Involve Program, and is a creative consultant on WGBH’s landmark documentary series We Shall Remain. N. Bird Runningwater was recently featured in The Color of Our Future, a book written by political commentator Farai Chideya. He has earned degrees in Journalism and Native American Studies from the University of Oklahoma, and received his Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Hans-Martin Liebing is a writer, director, and producer from Europe who has been working in both documentary and narrative film. He holds an MA in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Films he has worked on as a producer have screened at festivals in Europe and the U.S., on PBS Independent Lens, PBS Territory and ABC Australia. He is currently in post-production with a documentary on Native American end-time prophecies and a narrative feature he directed and produced last summer in Texas.
A Cine Las Americas first, the New Visions/Works in Progress panel featured a talk with several filmmakers about their upcoming projects.The filmmakers in the panel include Chris Eska, Beto Gómez, and David García. 
The filmmakers included in this gallery are: Angel Granados (Director, IN THE TRENCHES), Marcy Garriott (Director, INSIDE THE CIRCLE), Alejandro Landes (Director, COCALERO), Tania Hermida (Director, HOW MUCH FURTHER), Ruben Reyes (Director, PANCHO GOES TO COLLEGE), Alejandro Taracena (Actor, THE VIOLIN), and Rodrigo Bellott (Director, WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA).
This gallery includes pictures taken during festival after parties. 
The 10th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival began with a well-received screening of EL VIOLIN (The Violin, Francisco Vargas Quevedo, Mexico, 2006) at the Paramount Theater.
Director Rodrigo Bellott presented WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA at the Metropolitan to enthusiastic audiences. We caught up with him after the screening for a quick interview.