GALA Hispanic Theatre presents Paso Nuevo Youth Performance ProgramThe Legend of Izquic (2006), a compelling documentary-fiction tracing the lives of teenagers from a theatre collective in Columbia Heights DC who tell true stories of their coming to America mixed with their visions for the future, all through the unfolding of an ancient Mayan legend.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 5pm
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $5
For audiences ages 12 and up.
Get inside the hearts and minds of the youth who comprised a 2006 at-risk theatre collective – Paso Nuevo – at DC’s GALA Hispanic Theatre in Columbia Heights. Filmed on location in July 2006 and directed by Mattias Kraemer and Italian filmmakers GG Roccatti and Giandomenico Muso, this new-form film is both documentary and fiction. The students share the true and often violent stories of their legal and illegal migration to the US set in a magical unfolding of an ancient Mayan legend which helps give voice to their visions for the future. Mattias Kraemer will introduce the film and Quique Aviles, director of GALA’s Paso Nuevo, will lead a post-screening exchange on the film, as well as on issues of immigration especially affecting young people and families and Paso Nuevo’s ongoing vision.
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