FRI MAR 15, 2024 7:30 PM HELI / LOS BASTARDOS $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Amat Escalante Co-presented by Hola Mexico Film Festival ‘Amat Escalante: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILMS: HELI, 2013, Dir. Amat Escalante, 105 Min, Strand Releasing, Mexico In Spanish with English subtitles. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes Film Festival, HELI is “hypnotic and starkly beautiful…a stunning piece of filmmaking” (Los Angeles Times). When Heli’s 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico’s brutal drug war, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart. FORMAT: DCP LOS BASTARDOS, 2009, Dir. Amat Escalante, 90 Min, Mexico In Spanish with English subtitles. Award-winning film about two undocumented Mexican day laborers in L.A. Each day they stand on the corner at the home improvement store seeking employment. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages. Today, one of them carries a shotgun inside his backpack. FORMAT: 35mm