VIVA: Film, Discussion, and Dinner

The Cultural Films Committee presents VIVA at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, in Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101.

A panel discussion with Fredo Rivera ’06, assistant professor of art history,  John Petrus, assistant professor of Spanish, Jaclyn Abing ’17, Frank Barca ’17, Armando Perez ’17, and Nelson Schicke ’18 will follow the screening.

A Cuban-themed dinner buffet is included.

VIVA stars Héctor Medina as Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama (Luis Alberto García), Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel (Jorge Perugorría) abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, VIVA becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family.

VIVA was a hit at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival and was Ireland’s entry for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award.