Friday, May 21, 2021 7pm
Friday, May 21st, 7PM Screening featuring Virtual Q&A with Director Alejandro Brugués + Live Panel Discussion about Cuba’s San Isidro Movement + FREE MOJITO!
10th Anniversary revival in honor of artistic freedom and creative expression in Cuba!
Buy tickets for the Friday May 21st 7pm screening and experience a virtual post-screening conversation with director Alejandro Brugués on his perspectives of his classic film on its 10th anniversary. A live panel curated by 4Ward Miami featuring activist Rosa María Payá Acevedo, Local 10 reporter Hatzel Velaand playwright Vanessa Garcia will follow the virtual conversation. Immediately following the screening, enjoy a complimentary mojito to celebrate the spirit of the “Patria y Vida” movement and Movimiento San Isidro at Cubaocho Museum & Performing Arts Center, across the street from the theater at 1465 SW 8thStreet.
Alejandro Brugués’s cheekily subversive 2011 zombie comedy Juan de los Muertos quickly achieved legendary status. The metaphorical idea that the citizens of Cuba were being turned into “zombies” by the totalitarian Castro regime was met with uproarious laughter around the world, perhaps nowhere more so than in Miami. When Juan de los Muertos made its Miami debut in early 2012 at the Miami Film Festival, the overflow crowd at downtown’s 1,567 seat Olympia Theater was in such convulsions of hilarity that more than half the dialogue could barely be heard. A month later, the film opened for a commercial run at Tower Theater Miami to line-ups that extended the length of Domino Plaza, and the film remains one of the Top 10 grossing engagements in our history.
In the film, Alexis Diaz de Villegas plays Juan, a rather lackadaisical fisherman trying to reconnect with his daughter, who plans to rejoin her mother in Miami. Meanwhile, Juan’s best friend Lazaro is trying to connect with his own son, a persistent womanizer. They begin to notice that locals are “going crazy”, killing people and eating their flesh, and the recently deceased are returning to life. The Cuban government and the media claim that the zombies are dissidents revolting against the government. Juan starts a “Ghostbusters”-style business to profit from killing off the zombies, but the group may soon find their own lives at risk as they navigate the streets of an increasingly bizarre Havana.
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