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AUSTRALIA
Latin American Film
Festival in Canberra
1 - 5 March
National Museum of
Australia
Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula
Canberra
Admission: free
This year, the
Latin American Embassies in Canberra, together with the National
Museum of Australia will celebrate the sixth edition of the Latin
American Film Festival in Australia. The festival will be held from
the 1st until the 5th of March 2010 offering two daily screenings,
at 6:00pm and at 8:00pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
To the audience’s delight, the Latin American diplomatic missions in
Canberra - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru,
Uruguay and Venezuela - will be presenting a selection of the best
films that each country’s industry has to offer including
international award winning pieces from recent releases in Latin
American cinema.
Please note that due
to the limited seating, everyone will be allocated a seat based on
principal “first -come, first-served”.
To view the
festival's program click here
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Argentina will
be represented by the multi-awarded film La Cámara Oscura
(Camera Obscura) directed by María Victoria Menis. The
setting for this moving film is a colony of Jewish
immigrants in an Argentine province at the end of the 19th
century. Gertrudis, in her family’s opinion, is born an ugly
baby, grows into an unattractive child and becomes an almost
invisible and insignificant woman. Ignored by all, Gertrudis
opens her eyes to the small joys in life and creates her own
universe. Years later, when she is married with children, a
French photographer passes by and offers to photograph the
family. This man is the only one to discover her singular
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Nominated for 8
Argentine Film Critics Association Awards (Best Film, Best Director,
Best Adapted Screenplay, New Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best
Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Music), the Argentine
movie La Cámara Oscura (Camera Obscura) received the Condor de Plata
and the Signis Prize awards (Argentine Film Critics Association
Awards) as well as the Best Film awards at the Pays de Caux
International Latin Film Festival 2009 and at the International
Jewish Film Festival of Uruguay 2009. It also received a Honourable
Mention at the Leipzig Argentine Film Festival 2009.
TangoFest: Australian
International Tango Festival
27 March - 4 April
Mudgee and Sydney
www.tangofest.com.au
TangoFest will begin
with Tango In The Vineyards on Saturday, the 27th of March at Prince
Hill Wines, Mudgee and will continue in Sydney from Tuesday, the
30th of March until Sunday, the 4th of April.
Due to popular demand, World Tango Salon Champions Daniel Nacucchio
and Cristina Sosa are coming back. Another exciting news is the
participation of international tango stars Laila and Leandro Oliver,
principal dancers of the world acclaimed show “Tango x 2: Una Noche
de Tango”. Belen Silva and Diego Gonzalez, who were finalist in the
2006 World Stage Tango Championship will complete the international
line-up of teachers and performers.
For more information on festival’s program and for bookings visit
www.tangofest.com.au,
email Lilian Jimenez to
lilian@tangofest.com.au or call 02 9955 4610 or 0403 309 414.
EMBASSY EVENTS
Argentina's Promotional
Stand
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On February 6,
the Latin American Embassies in Australia organized a group
of stands to promote tourism and culture of our countries as
part of the National Multicultural Festival 2010.
The Embassy and its staff had the opportunity to showcase
images of all regions of Argentina from north to south, to
interact with people face to face and to answer their
enquiries as well as to provide brochures, maps and advice
to all those who are interested in travelling to our
country.
The Argentine culinary delights were well represented by the
charity organization Puente Austral whose empanadas were
huge success and completely sold out by the afternoon! All
proceeds will be donated to the rural schools in Argentina.
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INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
International
Violin Competition
IThe Embassy of
Argentina in Australia has the honour to announce the 1st
International Violin Competition that will take place from the 10th
until the 21st of July 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Registration
is open to applicants aged from 15 to 27 years old and applications
must be submitted by the 31st of March 2010.
The prizes of US$15.000, US$10.000, US$5.000, US$2.500 and US$1.000
will be awarded by a panel of very prestigious international judges
chaired by Shlomo Mintz (USA/Israel) and integrated by Edward Grach
(Russia), Itzak Rashkovsky (Israel/Great Britain), David Cerone
(USA), Kimiko Nakazawa (Japan), Vera Tsu (China), Rafael Gintoli
(Argentina), Pedro Ignacio Calderón (Argentina) and Enrique Barrios
(Mexico). Furthermore, two special awards will be granted for the
best interpretation of “Pampeana No1” by Ginastera (US$2.500) and
for the best interpretation of an Argentine Tango (also US$2.500).
For further information on this competition (rules, program,
enrolment, etc.) please refer to the website
http://violinbuenosaires.com/eindex.html
Competition authorities contact details are:
Mr. Damián Rovner, Executive Director
I Concurso Internacional de Violín de Buenos Aires (1st Buenos Aires
International Violin Competition)
Postal address: Arribeños 2355 C1428APE
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel/Fax: (5411) 4784 1243
Email:
info@violinbuenosaires.com
IV International
Children and Adolescents Drawing and Painting Exhibition
"Enrique Urcola"
The IV International
Children and Adolescents Drawing and Painting Exhibition is
organized by the Enrique Urcola Museum with the support of the
Lincoln City Council and aims to promote the new generation’s
creative expressions as the basis of international cultural exchange
in favour of understanding and union amongst nations.
The competition is open to children from all over the world who
were born after the 30th of August, 1995. Topic is free and
competitors may choose watercolours, temperas, acrylics, crayons,
pastels or ink. Each competitor may submit any number of entries.
Please note that the size of each entry should not be less than 35 x
45cm and more than 50 x 70cm. All postal costs will be covered by
the participants. At the back of the drawing/painting indicate in
block letters (English or Spanish) title of the entry, competitor’s
name and surname, sex, age, date of birth, nationality, full postal
address, email and a certificate from a parent or a teacher that the
entry is an original, unaided work. All entries to be send the
following address: Museo Enrique Urcola, Avenida 9 de Julio 260
(6070), Lincoln (B), Buenos Aires, Argentina. The last day for the
receipt of the entries will be 30th of August 2010. No entry will be
returned.
The entries will be judged by the museum authorities, plastic
artists and well-known people from children’s Art Institutions. All
competitors whose entries will be selected for the exhibition will
receive an honour certificate and a prize.
The exhibition will take place at the Enrique Urcola Museum from
July 2011 until November 2011 and could be visited through Internet
at www.museourcola.org.ar from August 2011. Currently, you can view
previous (the third) exhibition.
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