BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260415T200046CEST-3697EJTWLM@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260415T180046Z DESCRIPTION:\n With Vagabond Alexander Beaumont\, Sonia González-Martinez\, Cynthia López\, Frances Negrón-Muntaner\, Luis Antonio Ramos\, and modera tor Edwin Pagán \n \n \n\n\n Part of the series Changing the Picture\, s ponsored by Time Warner Inc. \n\n\n Nuyorican Cinema: Framing Identity is a discussion featuring renowned filmmakers\, content creators\, and curato rs about the contributions of New York-born Puerto Ricans to the film and entertainment industry. The panel will cover the historical landscape of f ilmmakers\, writers\, and actors from the Lower East Side\, the South Bron x\, Spanish Harlem (a.k.a. “El Barrio”)\, and from the south side of Willi amsburg\, Brooklyn (“Los Sures”) who have tackled sociological and politic al challenges in their work\, and how these struggles have helped to creat e a distinct Nuyorican aesthetic. The discussion will also address the inh erent lack of representation and negative portrayals of Puerto Ricans in e ntertainment\, as well as the duality and political ramifications that Nuy orican mediamakers encounter given the tumultuous history between the Unit ed States and Puerto Rico\, and how a new generation of New York “Boricuas ” is changing the face of the industry. \n\n\n Organized by guest curator Edwin Pagán \n\n\n Panelists: \n \n Vagabond Alexander Beaumont\, Writer\, director\, activist \n \n Sonia González-Martinez\, Director\, editor \n \n Cynthia López\, Former Commissioner of NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment \n \n Frances Negrón-Muntaner\, Filmmaker\, scholar\, author \n \n Luis Antonio Ramos\, Actor \n \n Moderated by Edwin Pagán\, Filmmak er\, writer\, curator \n\n\n Free admission. \;This event is currently at capacity. Reservations are no longer being taken\; however standby tic kets may become available at the door. Visit the Museum's admission desk a fter 6:30 p.m. on Friday\, Mar. 4\, to secure a position in the standby li ne. Museum members will be given priority. \; \n \n \n Those registere d for the event should arrive no later than 7:15 p.m. Tickets will be dist ributed on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n About the panelists: \n \n Vagabond Alexander Beaumont is a writer\, artist\, and filmmaker. Hi s first feature film was Machetero (2008)\, about the ongoing struggle for Puerto Rican independence\, which starred Isaach De Bankolé. His short st ory Kafka’s Last Laugh was included in the science fiction anthology Octav ia’s Brood\, honoring the work of science fiction writer Octavia Butler. H e is currently producing and directing two documentaries\, Harlem’s Last P oet\, on the life of poet Abiodun Oyewlole\, and Six Shooters\, about six Puerto Rican photographers from the South Bronx who picked up cameras as t heir weapons of choice and documented the birth of hip-hop and salsa as th e South Bronx burned in the 1970s and '80s. \n\n\n Sonia González-Martinez is a writer\, director\, and editor from New York City. Her directing cre dits include the short comedies Urban Lullaby and The Trilogy of Lyric Les \, as well as the feature-length documentary Bragging Rights: Stickball St ories\, about the history and players of the New York City game of stickba ll. González-Martinez\, together with actress Tammi Cubilette and comedian Angelo Lozada\, formed T&\;A Flicks\, which produces the comedy web se ries Get Some!\, currently being developed for television. In 2015\, Sonia was chosen from hundreds of candidates to participate in the Sony Diverse Directors Program. \n\n\n Cynthia López is the former Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment where she impleme nted strategies to support production of film and TV production throughout the five boroughs\, and oversaw NYC Media\, the City's official TV\, radi o and online network. Previously\, she served as executive vice president and co-executive producer of American Documentary | POV\, the award-winnin g PBS documentary series. López is the founding chairperson of the board o f directors of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (N ALIP). She is the recipient of 11 National News &\; Documentary Emmy Aw ards among many other prestigious awards \n \n \n Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker\, writer\, curator\, and scholar. Among her books and publi cations are: Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American C ulture (CHOICE Award\, 2004)\, The Latino Media Gap (2014) and The Latino Disconnect: Latinos in the Age of Media Mergers (2016). Her films include AIDS in the Barrio (1989)\, Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rica n (Whitney Biennial\, 1995)\, Small City\, Big Change (2014)\, War for Gua m (2015)\, and Life Outside (2016). She is the director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race\, founder of the Media and Idea Lab\, and curator of the Latino Arts and Activism archive at Columbia University. \n \n\n Luis Antonio Ramos was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx\, New York. He is an actor and producer with a wide range of acting experien ce\, with roles in television\, film\, and theater. He is known for Derek Velez Partridge’s A Miracle in Spanish Harlem (2013) and Franc. Reyes’s&nb sp\;The Ministers (2009)\, and the Starz’ hit TV drama series Power. He ha s appeared on the television series The Unit\, Burn Notice\, Numb3rs\, The Shield\, and many others and was a series regular on The Brian Benben Sho w and Queens\, with recurring roles on In the House\, Ink\, and Martin. Ra mos was nominated for an Alma Award for best supporting actor for his work in The Huntress. Luis also received the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actor for his performance in the play Stand Up Tragedy. \n\n\n Edwin Pagán is a New York-based filmmaker\, writer\, curator\, and cultural activist with o ver 25-years of hands-on experience in content creation and film productio n in both the documentary and narrative film sectors. He has served on the boards of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP )\, and more recently\, the Hispanic Organization of Latino Actors (HOLA). He has also served on numerous foundation selection juries and film festi val curatorial committees\, and has curated the NewLatino Filmmakers Scree ning Series at Anthology Film Archives for the past 14 years. In 2008\, he created Latinhorror.com\, an online portal specializing in Latin-influenc ed horror\, its documentation\, and promotion as a distinct genre. He is c urrently writing a book on the subject titled Miedo—The History of Latin H orror\, while also working on a documentary about the rise\, fall\, and re surrection of the South Bronx\, called Bronx Burning. \n \n DTSTART:20160304T193000 DTEND:20160304T213000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image SUMMARY:Nuyorican Cinema: Framing Identity END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR