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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">Dear colleagues, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">It is my pleasure to announce the
<span class="markenmwsjpkz">2022 </span><span data-markjs="true"><span class="markkgqrswpiy">Latin</span></span>
<span data-markjs="true"><span class="markdr4c4cgrn">American </span></span><span data-markjs="true"><span class="mark4tnw738fk">Film</span></span>
<span data-markjs="true"><span class="markrw4wshwzq">Festival</span></span>, organized by the Department of Spanish and
<span data-markjs="true"><span class="markkgqrswpiy">Latin</span></span><span data-markjs="true"><span class="markdr4c4cgrn"> American</span></span> Studies, in collaboration with Kitchener Public Library, and the Pragda Spanish
<span data-markjs="true"><span class="mark4tnw738fk">Film</span></span> Club. </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">This year’s
<span data-markjs="true"><span class="markrw4wshwzq">Festival</span></span> will have a hybrid format with screenings online and in person as Covid-19 restrictions allow. Additionally, each
<span data-markjs="true"><span class="mark4tnw738fk">film</span></span> will be available for streaming on demand for a period of one week. To learn more visit:
</span><o:p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/3rd-annual-latin-american-film-festival-jan-19-mar-23">https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/3rd-annual-latin-american-film-festival-jan-19-mar-23</a><o:p> </o:p></span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">This year’s festival will open with an online screening of
<i>Alice Júnior</i> (Gil Baroni/Brazil/2019/87mins) on Wednesday, January 19, at 7pm. (To register please visit:
<a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QqLkbRu_S-mm0TdrCt1dCg">https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QqLkbRu_S-mm0TdrCt1dCg</a>)<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p> <img alt="" class="first cycle-slide cycle-slide-active" style="top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 100; opacity: 1; display: inline-block; width: initial; height: initial; max-width: 100%;" src="https://static.pragda.com/uploads/2021/02/alice-junior-pragda-cover-art-1200-600.jpg"></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">About the film.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">
<i>Alice Júnior</i> is a carefree, spoiled trans YouTuber with everything she could ask for: an apartment in a cool beach town, a loving dad, her own advice vlog, an almost-win on Teen Top Model, and a cat named Rhinoceros. So, when her father announces their
move from the vibrant Brazilian city of Recife to a small, conservative town in the south and to an old-fashioned catholic school, Alice has to prepare herself for the prudery and small-mindedness she will confront there. The teenager, however, doesn’t let
the initial hostility get her down. Alice releases her truest survival instinct to make her new schoolmates and teachers rethink their conservative ways, and catch her long-overdue first kiss: by being loud and unapologetically herself.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">Check out the fill lineup of films and screening dates here:
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/3rd-annual-latin-american-film-festival-jan-19-mar-23">
https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/3rd-annual-latin-american-film-festival-jan-19-mar-23</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">Best wishes,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">Mario</span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<div class="PlainText">Mario Boido, PhD (he/him)<br>
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