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Upcoming Screenings

Progress by Andres Garza

Andres Garza and Francisco Romero

Date: May 19, 2024 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Progress (Andres Garza, 2003) is a rare example of Los Angeles neorealism that takes the commonplace as its subject and presents a version of Los Angeles rarely seen in film. Andres Garza's portrait of a young Mexican American working as a busboy and aspiring to become a writer in a working class suburb extends the geography and tradition of films like The Exiles, Killer of Sheep and Bless Their Little Hearts into the early 2000s. Andres Garza and Francisco Romero in person. Including the World premiere of Francisco Romero's two films, Filter and Self Portrait.

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