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Saturday, 04 August 2012 22:43 Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 19:27 Written by Pocha

Sat., Sept. 1 @ 8pm

The Crumbles
Dir. Akira Boch, Starring Teresa Michelle Lee, Katie Hipol and Jeff Torres
Opening celebration 6-10pm. Film screens at 8pm

Click Here for Info on the OC Film Fiesta Opening Celebration featuring live music by The Moan, The Tequila Worms and Special Guest!

Artists Village Promenade
207 N. Broadway Santa Ana
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THE CRUMBLES follows the ups and downs of the greatest band in the world… that no one’s ever heard of. This indie rock slice-of-life tragicomedy stars a talented up-and-coming, multi-racial cast including Teresa Michelle Lee, Katie Hipol and Jeff Torres, whose performances have been called “memorable and spirited” by the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The film is set in Echo Park, one of LA’s oldest and most eclectic neighborhoods, with a population made up of working class Latinos, hipsters, and artists of all stripes. The odd mixture of people and cultures creates a funky and flavorful milieu, where the characters in THE CRUMBLES fit right in.

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Saturday, 04 August 2012 22:43 Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:02 Written by Pocha

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Sun., Sept. 2 @ 1pm

El Abuelo
Dir. Stephen Crutchfield
Special Guest: Louie Olivos, Jr.
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
117 North Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
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This award-winning 20-minute short film brings the storytelling of emerging director Stephen Crutchfield and acclaimed writer Stephen Metcalfe (studio writer of PRETTY WOMAN and MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS) to the screen in a tale about the mystery of human connection.

The narrative follows Nick, a young autistic boy, as he surveys the world in silence, eventually finding an unlikely friend in El Abuelo, an elderly Mexican migrant worker. Through the bond formed in their relationship, Nick’s silence is broken.

The film's star, Louie Olivos, Jr., will be in attendance for the screening

Saturday, 04 August 2012 22:43 Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:45 Written by Pocha

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Sun., Sept. 2 @ 3:30pm

Inocente
Dir. Sean Fine and Andrea Nix
Special Guests: Inocente
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
117 North Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
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INOCENTE is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings.

At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past – - a past punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse, an alcoholic and defeated mother of four who once took her daughter by the hand to jump off a bridge together, an endless shuffle year after year through the city’s overcrowded homeless shelters and the constant threat of deportation.

Inocente will be in attendance for the screening with Matt D'Arrigo from ARTS (A Reason To Survive).

Saturday, 04 August 2012 22:43 Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:32 Written by Pocha

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Sun., Sept. 2 @ 2pm

Indie Showcase
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
117 North Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
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Saturday, 04 August 2012 22:43 Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 16:18 Written by Pocha

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Sat., Sept. 8 @ 1pm

Perdida
Dir. Viviana Garcia-Besné
Santora Arts Building
211 North Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701

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After being told that her family had made some of the worst films in the history of Mexican cinema, Viviana spent many years ashamed of that legacy and distanced herself from everything that the Calderón family had ever done. But a chance encounter sparked her interest and led to a 3-year quest to uncover the story of a family that had been involved in all aspects of the film business in Mexico and the United States -- theaters, distribution, and production -- whose rise and fall throughout the 20th century closely mirrored that of Mexican cinema as a whole, a once-powerful film industry that was now virtually nonexistent. The story that Viviana discovered through old film reels, photographs, newspaper articles, clips from the family's film vaults, and interviews with the survivors of Mexican cinema's golden eras included tales of romance and stories about movie and music legends like Ricardo Montalbán and the mambo king Damaso Perez Prado, and allowed her to make peace with a legacy of film pioneers.

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