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, Chisme Collective of Corpus Christi, 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 Director Adelaide Pilar Benavides (HORIZONTE) & Sueños sin Fronteras, a non-profit that aims to improve pregnancy, birth & postpartum outcomes for undocumented San Antonians through direct support, education & advocacy. Screening underwritten by BRIDGE.
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Total runtime: 26 minutes
2 PM - Forum on Data Centers led by Texas Youth Power Alliance, Public Citizen & Data Center Action Coalition
A slew of data centers are slated for development around Hays County, including one in Uhland proposed to occupy 1,515 acres, supposedly set to deliver 20 times the scope of the entire Austin-San Antonio data center market. Learn more about the ecological threat of these centers, and regional resistance to them.
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.
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Followed by Q&A, led by Dr. Saeed Moshfegh, with Director Matthew Solomon & Executive Producer Donna Hadjikhani
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, jailed or disappeared thousands of Peruvians, and targeted members of the 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.
Screening underwritten by the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State.
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Directed by Mabel Valdiviezo, who will take part in Q&A following the film alongside Kyle City Councilwoman Claudia Zapata!