AEHC/LIFFY SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, APRIL 11
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Opening and presentation of the 15th AEHC Congress
Inaugural Lecture by Julio Pérez Perucha
Inaugural Lecture by Margherita Tortora
Presentation on Fernando Birri, by Margherita Tortora (In English)
Presentation on Performing Traditions, by Nuria Pérez Matesanz
Break
2:05 PM – 3:00 PM
Zoom Spain. Communications:
1 – José Fidel López Zornoza: “Amalio Fernández, The Painter of Hollywood” and “From Pepe Mora to Roberto Constantino”
2 – Mar Díaz: “Antonio Moreno: The Spanish Star Who Triumphed Far from Spain”
3 – Carmen Ciller: “A Budding Film Career in Exile: The Early Works of Cecilia Roth (1976-1985)”
Break
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
1 – Rosa Alcalá: “Augusto Boal: Director, Playwright, and Founder of the Theater of the Oppressed in Brazil” (Rosa is a Yale College student) (In English)
2 – Eliecer Jiménez: “Cecilia Valdés in Cecilia (Humberto Solás, 1982): Censorship and Self-Censorship on Her Return to Havana”
Break
4:05 PM – 5:00 PM
Roundtable discussion. The Role of Interpretive Traditions: Deborah Balardini, Patricia Colmenero, and Jaime Puerta
Moderator: Esperanza Álvarez Castillo
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Free time
7:00 PM
Diego Corsini presents his film “Adiós Madrid” (2024)
Film Screening
Discussion (Q&A) and Closing Ceremony
SATURDAY, APRIL 12
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Presentation of the Second Day of the Conference
Presentation on Fausto Cabrera, by Margherita Tortora
10:15 AM – 10:55 AM
Presentation of “Young Filmmakers at Windham Middle School (Connecticut): Multiculturalism, Film, and Learning” by Carlos de la Barrera and Esperanza Álvarez Castillo. Student filmmakers, editors, and actors, members of the Windham Middle School Film Club, will participate. (Bilingual presentation in English and Spanish)
Screening of their short movie “Heroes Rising”
Discussion (Q&A)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros and Sheyla Niño: “Las cómicas de la Le(n)gua,” a theater project within the company “La Barraca Hispanoamericana”
1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Free Time
3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
125 Years of Luis Buñuel, by Alfonso Puyal
Screening of This Strange Passion by Luis Buñuel (1953)
Discussion (Q&A)
Exhibition of original pieces from Classic Hollywood from the “Esperanza Álvarez Castillo Collection – Portable Museum”
6:00 p.m. – Closing Speeches: Margherita Tortora and Julio Pérez Perucha