In collaboration with The Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY)
November 7: Film Screening of Javier Espada’s documentary, Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker and Q & A with Javier Espada, 53 Wall Street Auditorium, 5:00pm
Film is in the original language with English subtitles. The Q&A is bilingual.
November 8: Lecture by Javier Espada, “Buñuel y arte” (in Spanish) followed by a reception. In HQ 107, 4:30pm
About Javier Espada
Javier Espada was born in Calanda, Spain and he designed the contents of the permanent exhibition of the Buñuel de Calanda Center (CBC), a museum dedicated to the Aragonese filmmaker Luis Buñuel. He was head of the Center since its creation in 2000 until 2016. He has created the International Film Festival conceived as a film tribute to Luis Buñuel in his homeland, and has directed it for 10 editions. He has also participated, since its creation, in the Zaragoza Ecozine Festival, supporting the environmental commitment through the capacity of diffusion and awareness of cinema, both fiction and documentary. He has curated multiple exhibitions related to Buñuel and cinema, and is a widely respected filmmaker focused on surrealism. (taken from the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications)
