Sep 5 | Ruth Sokolof
Join Film Streams for a special School to Screen presentation by international film expert Daniela Michel, the founder of the Morelia International Film Festival. Students will enjoy an exclusive presentation by Michel as she shares her industry insights, discusses her vast expertise in Mexican cinema, and reflects on her distinguished career, which includes founding the festival and serving as a jury member at prestigious events like the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.
About Daniela Michel
Daniela Michel is the Founding Director of the Morelia International Film Festival, an annual event launched in 2003 to support and promote a new generation of Mexican filmmakers. The festival has an ongoing partnership with the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival. She holds a degree in English Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and studied film-making at Mexico’s Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. She has curated major retrospectives of Mexican classic cinema in and outside Mexico.
Michel has also served on the Jury for the Un Certain Regard and La Semaine de la Critique sections of the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Locarno International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Rome Film Fest, the Red Sea International Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival, among other festivals, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowships, the Fulbright García-Robles Film Fellowships, the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Reel Talk Pro with Daniela Michel and Alexander Payne
Sep 6, 7 pm • Dundee
Spend the evening at the Dundee Theater as we screen the 1954 classic La Otra (The Other One), care of Filmoteca UNAM, followed by a discussion with Daniela Michel and Oscar®-winning filmmaker Alexander Payne exploring the film's significance in the cinematic canon.
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Don't Miss the Mexican Noir Series
Select Dates Sep 8-Oct 3 • Dundee
This fall, join us at the Dundee Theater as we screen a series curated by Daniela Michel celebrating Mexican noir. Featuring films that aren't available anywhere else in the US, Mexican Noir showcases the trademarks of the genre, including shadowy rogues donning fedoras and trench coats, pulse-pounding plot twists, and hapless heroes who are unwittingly lured into the murky waters of villainy by enticing dames in distress.
All four films will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles.
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