(ENG) Monday March 4, FICG

I started in the morning at the video library at FICG. This houses 600 titles by producers attending the festival..I could have been there all day.

Video Library at FICG

However, in the afternoon I headed to LARVA (Laboratorio de Arte Variedades), a really great art and performance space, and saw some selections from the significant offerings of the Premier Maguey, queer cinema at FICG. Premier Maguey was huge, really a festival in a festival.

I saw Call Me Kuchu, a documentary about GLBT issues in Uganda. It also documented the work of GLBT activist David Kato. It was produced by Malika Zouhall-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. Katherine was at the screening for a Q and A. A really great film the trailer is here: https://vimeo.com/27391482
A good article by Voice of America is here.
 http://www.voanews.com/content/documentary-looks-into-ugandas-activist-gay-community-141303483/180094.html

I also saw a great fiction film from Chile called Mapa Para Conversar directed by Fernández Constanza. Well wrought film about intergenerational tensions as a woman with a 6 year old son comes out to her mother. Here's the trailer: https://vimeo.com/11899123

Somehow I grabbed food..and also found a great vegetarian mexican cafeteria in the Centro.