La Chana Film Screening
September 30th, 2018 @ 3:30pmLocation: FilmBar: 815 N 2nd St, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Tickets: $15/each
Before the film screening of La Chana, Carlos Montúfar will introduce the PWAC's Executive Board as well as present a small performance with Caña Flamenca, PWAC's Flamenco Youth Dance Company.
Phoenix World Arts Collective is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote cultural diversity and artistic excellence, as well as inspire and educate the community by bridging people of all ages and backgrounds to the beauty of world arts through multicultural events and programs.
With depth, humor and pathos, La Chana celebrates the charisma and flair of a self-taught Gypsy flamenco dancer who in the 1960s-80s rose to international stardom and then suddenly vanished from the public eye at the height of her career. Peter Sellers saw her dance as a young woman and asked her to perform in the film 'The Bobo' in 1967. Hollywood beckoned, but that was not to be. In her baroque boudoir in Barcelona, La Chana continues to practice her art and reveals the reason her career came to such an abrupt end. Filled with footage of spectacular flamenco dance and music, this film brings us under the skin and into the irrepressible spirit of this eccentric woman with an uncanny gift for rhythm who, despite all odds, enjoys a comeback in her late sixties.
Schedule of Events
1:00pm: Doors Open at FilmBar in Phoenix.Tamales, Mimosas and other items available for sale inside.
3:00pm: Performance by Caña Flamenca, children's Flamenco group presented by Carlos Montufar
3:30pm: La Chana Film Screening Begins
