FREE ONLINE Screening of Star Maps: June 6 – 12

Q&A: June 12 @ 12 pm PST

Register below by JUNE 2 for the free screening link!

Our second event in the Demythifying Los Angeles series will be a screening of Star Maps followed by a Q&A with the director Miguel Arteta moderated by writer/actress Mariana Da Silva on Saturday, June 12 at Noon. Stay posted for our YouTube Live link for the Q&A. This event is part of the 2021 Filmmobile Summer Screening Series.

Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He studied film at the Wesleyan Film Program with Jeanine Basinger. His first three features, Star Maps (1997), Chuck & Buck (2000) and The Good Girl (2002), all premiered and found distribution at the Sundance Film Festival. He then made Youth In Revolt (2009) with Michael Cera and Cedar Rapids (2011) with Ed Helms and John C. Reilly and Beatriz At Dinner (2017) written by Mike White starring Salma Hayek, John Lithgow and Connie Britton. Duck Butter, with Alia Shawkat, Laia Costa, Mark and Jay Duplass won Best Actress award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and is available on Netflix. His TV work includes Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, Enlightened, American Horror Story and Succession for HBO. He was awarded an Independent Spirit Award fo his work on Chuck & Buck.

Mariana Da Silva is a Brazilian, Mexican writer/actress who lives in Los Angeles. She is the founder of El Cine, a curated Latinx 501 -c3 Non Profit Organization whose mission is to provide accessible inclusive film education through monthly screenings and guest conversations. Mariana has appeared in Telenovelas and TV series, her credits include El Rostro De Analia, Las Dos Caras de Ana and NCIS, she is an active member of Tim Robbins’s highly acclaimed “The Actor’s Gang”. In 2020, Mariana participated in CBS’s Diversity Writing program and her short film “Mariposa” was screened in festivals worldwide.

Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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