Rubén Blades returns to film in Latino drama SPOKEN WORD and will participate in postscreening Q&A at El Museo del Barrio (photo by Lorey Sebastian)
SPOKEN WORD (Victor Nunez, 2009)
El Museo del Barrio, El Teatro
1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th St.
Wednesday, March 3, free, 6:30
212-831-7272
www.elmuseo.org
www.spokenwordmovie.com
El Museo del Barrio will be hosting a special presentation of Victor Nunez’s (ULEE’S GOLD) 2009 film, SPOKEN WORD, as part of its Nuevo Cine series, highlighting contemporary Latino films and filmmakers. In SPOKEN WORD, Kuno Becker stars as Cruz Montoya, an emerging hip-hop poet who temporarily leaves his career to take care of his ailing father, played by the multitalented Rubén Blades. Back home, Cruz runs into the old crowd he escaped from and is forced to make some life-changing decisions. The screening, which is free, will be followed by a Q&A with producer Bill Conway, coscreenwriter Joe Ray Sandoval, and event curator Jason Silverman. It should be especially fascinating to see Blades, the singer-songwriter, actor, activist, lawyer, and politician who only just returned to making music and movies after serving as Panama’s minister of tourism from 2004 to 2009.