SATURDAY | FEB 7
The Price Center, 222 W. San Antonio St
9AM - Examiner February Edition Release Party
Free pastries & kolaches courtesy Dixie Cream Donuts & coffee courtesy Wake the Dead Coffeehouse as Lost River attendees join the writers, visual artists & editorial staff of local movement-rooted alt-monthly Caldwell/Hays Examiner to celebrate the release of their February edition, which features a serious spread on the film fest.
10AM - STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE (NYC, 1hr 38 min)
Documentary on our nation’s premiere progressive journalist, directed by a pair of Oscar-nominated filmmakers
Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from conflict zones & the Democracy Now! Newsroom. A captivating portrait on the power & peril of journalism in an era of corporate control & political attacks on truth. Directed by Carl Deal & Tia Lessin. (Photo by Reed Brody.)
Screening co-hosted by KZSM 104.1FM, and followed by a panel of several movement-rooted Texas journalism projects including Trucha of the Rio Grande Valley, Deceleration of San Antonio, & local media/trouble-makers Caldwell/Hays Examiner
1 PM - PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES BLOC
THE LONG LABOR (California, 21min)
After losing her mother in childbirth, a Mexican immigrant grows up to become a women’s health nurse practitioner: a certified midwife who revives ancestral healing traditions for indigenous farmworkers. Directed by Brenda Ávila-Hanna & Consuelo Alba.
preceded by HORIZONTE (California, 5min)
Original cumbia, backed by no less than Grupo Fantasma, preaching the need to come together to bring about positive changes in our culture & society, shot in iconic sites of struggle in East & South L.A. Directed & performed by Adelaide Pilar Benavides.
Introduction from Sueños sin Fronteras, a non-profit that aims to improve pregnancy, birth & postpartum outcomes for undocumented San Antonians through direct support, education & advocacy.
Total runtime: 26 minutes
2 PM - Forum on Data Centers led by Texas Youth Power Alliance
2:45 PM - EDDINGTON (New Mexico, 2hr 28min)
Neo-western A24 political thriller that premiered at Cannes in May, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal & Austin Butler
Set amid rampant social turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic in podunk New Mexico – where a giant data center is slated for development – a standoff between the sheriff & mayor sparks a powder keg of chaos. Directed by Ari Aster.
6 PM - SEEDS FOR LIBERATION (California, 1hr 33min)
FESTIVAL PREMIERE!
Documentary centering Palestinian voices & the movement’s linkages to Black, Chicanx & other collective struggles
From Gaza & the West Bank to Stop Cop City & digital activism, the newest film from the director of REIMAGINING SAFETY spans decades of solidarity, culminating in reflections on what liberation & a free Palestine truly mean. Directed by Matthew Solomon.
8:15 PM - PRODIGAL DAUGHTER (Peru/California, 1hr 30min)
Documentary of a punk artist who fled dictatorship in Peru – in favor of living undocumented in California for 16 years – & who returns home
In the 1990s, the Fujimori dictatorship arrested & disappeared members of the rebellious Subte counterculture in Peru. Underground video-artist Mabel Valdiviezo opted to flee to the U.S., leaving behind her family – who didn’t understand her feminist punk-rock ways – & staying out of contact for over a decade and a half. In a blend of intimate vérité scenes with her vibrant photo-paintings & youthful animation, this film explores belonging, identity, mental health & the gendered dimensions of migration. Directed by Mabel Valdiviezo.