Film: Coyote Cage Feature Film Premiere
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Food Trucks & Cash Bar
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Featuring a pre-show performance by Award-Winning Artist Micky Cruz
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tabling
7:00 pm Film Screening
Panel Discussion, Raffle & Q&A to immediately follow.
The National Premiere of the Local Feature Film Coyote Cage. Coyote Cage is about a group of Latin American immigrants who find themselves in the middle of a human trafficking ring and seek shelter in a safe house, that is anything but. The screening will be followed by a Q&A Panel with the filmmakers and members of the cast.
Free community event
Film: Bless Me, Ultima
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Reception & Cash Bar
6:00 pm: Levi Romero Pre-Film Talk
7:00 pm: Screening
Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved and iconic Bless Me, Ultima returns to the NHCC with Carl Franklin’s screen adaptation. Bless Me, Ultima is set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico, and tells the story of a young boy and the mysterious healer who opens his eyes to the wonders of the spiritual realm. As the entire world is plunged into war and Antonio Marez grapples with the harsh realities all around him, his life is forever changed by the sudden arrival of Ultima, a curandera who inspires him to see the world from a new perspective.
2011 | Carl Franklin | English | 102 minutes | rated PG-13
Free Community Event. Please register below.
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Food Trucks, Cash Bar & Pop Fizz
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Music by Lindy Vision
7:00 pm – 9:15 pm: Rumble Screening
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World is a feature documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history.
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World brings to light a profound and missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence. Featuring music icons Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Jesse Ed Davis, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, and Taboo, Rumble shows how these pioneering Native musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.
Free Community Event, please register below.
Afro Mundo: Lead Me Home
7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
More than 500,000 people experience homelessness every night in America. Lead Me Home is a documentary short that tells a few of these real-life stories giving the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope, and diversity of what it means to be unsheltered today while calling into question uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies.
Free Community Event
Runtime: 40 minutes.
Fright Night and Spooky Mercado
4:00 pm – 11:30 pm
7:00 pm Family Film
7:00 pm Food Trucks and Cash Bar
8:30 pm Horror Film Features
Family fun, vendors, food trucks, frightful films, and more. If you are looking for something spooky, uncanny, macabre, a little dark, supernatural, or Halloween-inspired, this event is for you!
For information about becoming a mercado vendor, please click Here.
Free Community Event, please register below or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.
NOTE: This event will be family friendly from 4pm to 8:30pm and “mas espooky” from 8:30 pm – 11 pm.
Afro Mundo: American Revolutionary
7:00 pm: Social Justice Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future.
The documentary film, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy—her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her—drives the story forward.
Free Community Event
Runtime: 82 minutes