UPSTATE NEW YORK PREMIERE: Even the Rain is a narrative feature film that chronicles a filmmaker who goes to Bolivia to make a film about Columbus in the New World, and encounters the indigeneous people dealing with the Cochabamba water issues. Casting director and IC alum Rodrigo Bellott will be on hand for the post-screening discussion.
ONLY TWO SCREENINGS AT CINEMAPOLIS:
THURSDAY APRIL 14 7:20
SATURDAY APRIL 16 7:10
Use your FLEFF pass, or $9.50 general admission, $8 for students and senior citizens.
About the film:
Even the Rain (Iciar Bollain, Spain, 2010; 104 min) Filmmaker Sebastian arrives in Cochabamba accompanied by a cast and crew ready to make a film about Columbus’s first voyage to the New World and the subsequent subjugation of the indigenous population. Sebastian wants to focus on the experience of Bartolome de las Casas and Antonio de Montesinos who was so distraught over the treatment of the natives that he dedicated the rest of his life to their cause. His producer Costa has chosen Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, because it makes sense economically. Extras are willing to work long hours for just two dollars a day.
About Rodrigo Bellott
Rodrigo Bellott was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He has a BFA in Film, Photography and Visual Arts from Ithaca College. His first student film, DESTIERRO, was one of five films around the world nominated for a student Academy Award in 2001.
In college, Rodrigo wrote and directed DEPENDENCIA SEXUAL (Sexual Dependency), his first feature film with its world premiere at the 2003 Locarno Film Festival. It won the FIPRESCI award. The film was a box office success in Bolivia, marking the re-birth of Bolivian cinema as the country's first official selection competing for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 2004 Academy Awards. Rodrigo's second feature as director, WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA?, the highest grossing box office success in Bolivian History.
In 2007, VARIETY named Rodrigo as one of the TOP TEN Latin American talents to watch. In 2007, he worked as CASTING DIRECTOR for CHE part I and II, directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, starred by BENICIO DEL TORO. He has worked as Casting Director in 10 other international films In January 2010, CONTRACORRIENTE, a Perubian film Casted by Rodrigo, received the prestigious Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City Utah. Cannes.
Rodrigo’s last two features as a Casting Director were CONTRACORRIENTE and EVEN THE RAIN, recently been selected by their respective countries (Peru and Spain) to compete for “Best Foreign Film” at the Academy Awards.
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