Today’s Video/Event: “100% Venezuela”

The Tribeca Film Festival starts tonight in lower Manhattan and will run until May 4^th. Although it will feature several Latin American films, there’s a better option for those that want to avoid the large crowds and don’t want to fork over up to $15 per screening.

The second edition of the NYU-Venezuelan film festival opens tonight and runs until Sunday. Entitled “100% Venezuela," the event will not only feature free screenings of Venezuelan movies like “Postcards from Leningrad” and “Francisco de Miranda”. Symposiums will also be held including one tonight on “Perspectives and Leadership of Bolivarian Venezuela” featuring speakers like Teodoro Petkoff.

The final film to be presented in “100% Venezuela” will be 2005’s “Secuestro Express.” Below is the trailer for that movie:

(Disclaimer: I’m an NYU student; thus, I’m biased in this post!)

Sources- NYRemezcla, Tribeca Film Festival, New York University, The Latin Americanist, YouTube