Film conference on Latin American and Iberian cinemas on Wednesday
Film screenings and a flamenco guitar performance are highlights of a conference dedicated to films from Latin America and Spain.
The conference begins at 6 p.m.Wednesday in the University of Hawaii-Manoa Art Buiding.
Recent UH graduate Jasmine Skurtu will give a flamenco guitar performance followed by a screening of the film "Souls Without Borders: The Untold Story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade" at 7:30 p.m.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was the first racially integrated American military unit, formed when some 2,800 Americans volunteered between 1936 and 1939 to help defend the Spanish democracy against fascism.
Anthony Geist, chairman and professor of the Spanish Literature and Culture Department at the University of Washington will lead a question and answer session after the film.
For more information about the Sound and Image Film Conference at UH-Manoa, including registration forms, please visit www.hawaii.edu/llea/spanish/filmconference.
