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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground, and documentary features.
Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series is proud to present ANACRONTE, the work of animator, writer and director Yashira Jordan. Yashira was an inaugural participant in the Crosstown Arts Residency program. ANACRONTE: What on first instance appears to be a conflict between good and evil is actually a struggle within every one of us. We can choose to cope with evil and fight for our dreams or surrender to the will of others. Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil put humanity’s happiness to the test, leaving us as both winners and losers. Anacronte was produced by Yashira Jordan and directed by Raul Koler and Emiliano Sette.
Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire MY 20TH CENTURY was awarded the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra, a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z., who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’, reclaiming the ‘mass murdering century’ from the restlessly changing world and the miracle of existence. Tarkovsky’s fabulous actor, Oleg Yankovsky, performs an unforgettable double with the young Polish actress Dorotha Segda.
About Yashia Jordan:
Yashira Jordán was born in La Paz (Bolivia) in 1985. Shem made her first short film when she was 12. She studied Fine Arts in UNLP Argentina, specialized in Film 2010. She is a BERLINALE TALENT 2007 Universidad del Cine (Film University of Buenos Aires) – BAFICI and a BERLINALE TALENT 2008 from Berlin International Film Festival. Winner of “IBERMEDIA Project Scholarship” for Ecuador and Venezuela.
Selected for Producers Network- Marche du Film- Cannes in Ventana Sur, Buenos Aires two times. Director, writer, and producer of the film DURAZNO, with which she has participated in various Major and indie festivals and other film events around the world, such as the European Film Market of the Berlinale Film Festival, Rencontres du Toulouse-France, Guadalajara, Morelia, Mexico; Visions du Reel, Switzerland, Latin side of the Doc, Hot Docs, Canada, Girona cinema, Barcelona, Alianza Francesa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.BR LAB, Brazil. among others.
Co-founder of the Animation Studio CELESTE since 2011, where she became Executive Producer of animation in BELISARIO -a Full-dome series won 2019 Quirino Awards in Tenerife for Best Innovate Animation together with the Planetarium of the City of La Plata, Argentina, and the production company Cut to the Chase in Argentina. Creator of the Latin American Stop Motion Workshop (Taller Latinoamericano de Stop Motion, TLSM) with the support of Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy and Jamie Caliri’s Dragon Frame. TLSM which in its four versions hosted more than 500 participants from all over Latin America, and experts such as Alex Juhasz (The Little Prince, The Bababook), Mark Shapiro of LAIKA, Francesca Maxwell (Art Director of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson), Juan Pablo Zaramella from Argentina, Veronique Ecrenaz and Folimage from France. Director and Producer of the stop-motion short film DUBICEL.
Director of DIAMANTE in development her second film, was selected to ISLAB, in la ISLA del SOL, LA PAZ Bolivia and in Volumetric Filmmaking Depthkit Though Works Arts – Art Residency in New York City 2019. During her career, she attended talks, meetings, and workshops with filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Win Wenders, Mike Leigh, Lucrecia Martel, Wim Wenders, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lisandro Alonso, and Alex McDowell among others.
