Event Description
CLAS is pleased to announce that our free and in-person CineLatino screenings will include film talks with the directors this fall!
After the screening, the director Matías Piñeiro will be in conversation with Nicolás Pereda, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media.
Synopsis
First Time Home was directed and shot by young people who are Indigenous Triqui, second-generation immigrants. This is their story, told as they wish to tell it. When four cousins learned their grandfather in Mexico was gravely ill, they traveled from their community in California to their family’s ancestral village in Oaxaca for the first time. The teenagers recorded video letters to share with their parents and other relatives in the U.S., who are farmworkers who have not seen their relatives in Mexico in over 15 years.
Through a mixture of Spanish, Triqui, and English, they got to know their grandparents, aunts, and uncles. In the midst of border politics and violence, the group of cousins forged a link across thousands of miles, developing a newfound pride in their indigenous immigrant identity and a new understanding of the meaning of family. 29 minutes. Spanish, Triqui, and English with English subtitles.
Speakers
Matías Piñeiro is an Argentinian screenwriter, director, and filmmaker. Piñeiro is an associate professor at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute and coordinates the filmmaking department at the Elías Querejeta Film School in San Sebastián, Spain. He has received awards including the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University; and his screenings including the Berlinale Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and San Sebastian Film Festival.
Nicolás Pereda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies. He has presented his films in most major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, and Toronto, as well as in galleries and museums like the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York. In 2010 he was awarded the Premio Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival.
Winner - Special Jury Mention - Berlin Film Festival.