Do you have a great idea for creating an unforgettable movie event?  Great!  On the other hand, if you need a hand, our widely experienced staff can guide you in choosing films that are sure to delight and enrapture your audience.

Picked a movie for your schedule, but need ideas for how to promote and present it?  Here are just a few program ideas will help you put together a true cinematic extravaganza that will keep your community coming back for more!

It all starts with a theme

Themed programming is an easy way to keep students motivated and educated. We have compiled educational content, movies and ideas that help lead the discussion on topics that college students are interested in:

POPCORN ESCAPISM OR THE REAL WORLD?

Want a lighthearted event, with popcorn and a roomful of laughter? If so, play Lope, Chico & Rita, Marimbas from Hell, The Man Next Door, or The Cinema Hold Up. 

Want to know first-hand what’s happening in the increasingly popular world of documentary? Select The Death of Pinochet, Amerikanuak, and From the Land to your Table.  A very popular genre in our countries which is rapidly gaining traction in America is the fiction-documentary hybrid.  For starters, look at I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, or Marimbas from Hell.

MOVIES UNDER THE STARS

No one can resist cinema under the stars.  If you have the resources (and the weather!) to project outdoors, we recommend it!  Outdoor audiences are sure to enjoy Chico & Rita, Lope, Even the Rain, and Marimbas from Hell.  For a date night, how about Lope, Chico & Rita, and Undertow.  

POLITICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, PACKAGED JUST RIGHT

Is romance not the right path for your socially conscious intellectual movie-goers?  Here are some modern classics dealing with politics and history: Post Mortem, The Death of Pinochet, Even the Rain, and Lope.

If you want to explore deep issues of social justice, or films representing the modern shirting of cultural paradigms, social organizations, or value systems, we have a number of films to choose from. You could curate any number of great programs with films like The Fish Child, Southern District, La Yuma, Undertow, Even the Rain, From the Land to your Table, The Cinema Hold Up, and Marimbas from Hell.

SEND THEM ON A VOYAGE, OR SEND THEM LOVE

Send your audience on a beautiful ride through the landscapes of Brazil, Spain, Bolivia, rural Argentina, or an animated versión of Cuba and New York? You could easily pack a cinema or screening room with a Round The World film event, showing I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, From the Land to your Table, or Chico & Rita.

Sorry kids, only four wonderful love stories in our collection so far, and it's an unconventional program. We have two love stories with gay content (The Fish Child, Undertow), one animated feature (Chico & Rita) and a righteous boxing romance (La Yuma).

CELEBRATE DIVERSITY

We have had great success presenting programs by minority groups, women, and special interests.  These events almost always get picked up by the press, and always attract a packed, rapt audience.  Our films made by women: The Fish Child, The Death of Pinochet, La Yuma, Island Inside, Even the Rain, Cinema Hold Up and some of the stories in From the Land to your Table.

EVEN MORE IDEAS FOR YOU

Here are a few more ideas to help set you on the path to the most memorable event imaginable:

• Family relations: Before Opening Night, Island Inside, Southern District

• Unusual languages: Amerikanuak, Southern District, The Fish Child, From the Land to your Table

• Youth: La Yuma, Marimbas from Hell, Cinema Hold Up, The Fish Child

• Big budget films with recognizable stars: Even the Rain, Lope, Chico & Rita

• Oscars® Movies: Even the Rain, La Yuma, Chico & Rita, Southern District

• Indie gems from Sundance: Cinema Hold Up, Southern District, The Man Next Door, Undertow.

• Up and coming legends of cinema: Stigmata, Cinema Hold Up, Marimbas from Hell, Before Opening Night. 

• The art of cinema: I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, Amerikanuak, Stigmata, From the Land to your Table, Southern District, The Death of Pinochet.

It doesn't stop here:  Get in touch

Tell us about your programming line, your interests and likes and our professionals will advise you personally. And remember to check the biography area of the films to see what filmmakers are available for a Q&A via Skype.  Or better, if your school has resources, you could bring filmmakers on campus to introduce the film or organize a workshop, an event you know would win an audience.  Whatever you come up with, we'd love to hear it! Contact us at info@spanishfilmclub.com and let us know what you're thinking.