VLAFF + the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Join VLAFF at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival on Wednesday, January 18 for a free screening of the Mexican film, Norteado. Presented in conjunction with PuSh and SFU Woodward's, this is a pre-show screening prior to a performance of the play, Amarillo. Following Amarillo, VLAFF's Festival Director, Christian Sida-Valenzuela will participate in a post-show talkback on "Interrogating Borders" with Evan Frayne and Juanita Sundberg.

http://pushfestival.ca/shows/norteado/

For more information about Amarillo please visit: http://pushfestival.ca/shows/amarillo/

January 18, 2012 at 6:00pm Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street

Norteado
Spanish with English Subtitles, 95 min | Free
Director: Rigoberto Pérezcano
Written by: Edgar San Juan and Rigoberto Pérezcano
Principal Cast: Harold Torres, Alicia Laguna and Sonia Couoh

Drawn to the north, a young farmer from Oaxaca in southern Mexico tries repeatedly to cross the border into the United States. Andrés is a gentle soul who has given himself up to his dream. When he is pushed back to Tijuana, he is taken in by two women, Cata and Ela, who are doing their own endless waiting on the line that divides the two countries.