Filmes addressing LGBT issues and book presentations and a live performance by French singer Louis Ronan Choisy, are part of the activities offered by the Mix Mexico: Festival of sexual diversity in film and video, which opens in Mexico City on 12 May. The event will take place in various venues of the capital, ending on June 5 and involve various countries like Italy, Spain and Argentina.
Directed by filmmaker Arturo Castelán, the fifteenth edition of the festival will be held in the Cinematograph of Poplar, the room José Martí, the Ministry of Culture of the Federal District, the Cinépolis Diana and the National Film Archives. There
screened about 80 films, which meets with the film production in these countries. Castelán
announced that Friday May 13, thanks to the collaboration of the French Embassy in Mexico, will be presented Shelter, where he participates Choisy Louis Ronan, who at the end of the projection display will give a recital where his role as singer.
Also on Monday, May 16 will present the book In the closet, the Mexican writer Guadalupe Loaeza, which addresses the issue of sexual orientation.
On Monday, 23 will be released digital odyssey of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, where he shows a compilation of 10 years production of the filmmaker. Castelán
explained that the films will be screened in three categories. The first of these under the title Platinum Section, presenting great directors, proposals and discoveries. Among the films being shown sample projects All boys, led by Markku Heikkinen; Man in the bathroom, Christophe Horonré French, and Simon Finding , German Jan Kruger.
The category, Premiere Cinépolis Diana, will consist of production of fiction, documentary, classic and new, and includes films such as "Baby Jane ?, U.S. of Billy Clift; Roleplay, of Rob Williams, and Paolo , Andrea Franco Batievsky, among others.
mix in Mexico: competing characters will be shown to new Mexican cinema and will screen Agnus dei, Alejandra Sánchez, die standing the Jacaranda Correa activist and mother Earth , Dylan Verrechia, to name a few Mexican productions will be featured.
Festival organizer said on 21 May at the disco Living, will be awarded for best film with an honorable mention and 10 thousand dollars in cash.
For its part, the deputy director of the National Film, Nelson Carro, explained that on the occasion of 15 anniversary of this festival have prepared two parallel activities.
The first is a retrospective of the work of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, where he discussed the work of the director. The billboard Mix
Mexico: Festival of Sexual Diversity in film and video can be viewed at www.festivalmix.com.mx , where the audience will find the schedules and venues of the fifteenth edition, which seeks to encourage reflection about the sexual diversity, its organizers say.
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