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Presented by Bread Garden Market, Little Village, and FilmScene
DIALOGUE: Filmmakers Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras in person!
Vino Vérité returns on the cusp of a new season with a film that celebrates the last summer of youth, a powerful document of friendship in troubled times, directed by its stars.
The Vino Vérité series features talented new voices and established filmmakers influenced by the vérité tradition in person to present their thought-provoking, chance-taking, and visually-arresting films. Each selection is paired with hand-selected wines from Bread Garden Market.
Tickets: $25 public / $20 members / $12 students. Includes wine tasting & hors d'oeuvres, film, filmmaker Q&A, and dessert reception.
6:30 - Hors d'oeuvres & wine tasting
7:00 - Screening
8:30 - Filmmaker Q&A + Dessert Reception
"Has the sheen of summertime fun and the bright energy of creative focus for besties who are smart and terrifically likable." — Hollywood Reporter
"It’s a film of deep honesty that’s carefully crafted, one of the best films of this ilk I’ve seen." — RogerEbert.com
"Perfectly captures the spontaneous joy and lazy, meandering conversations of warm summer nights in young adulthood when time seems both limitless and fleetingly tender. Silvia and Estefanía are human fireworks who you’ll fall in love with." — The Pitch
ABOUT HUMMINGBIRDS
Across the Mexican border in Laredo, Texas, best friends Silvia and Beba dance through long summer nights, contemplate their complicated affection for their hometown and the possibilities that exist in the distance. Silly, rebellious, tender, and fierce, the two fend off the weight of a world that wants to control their bodies and their citizenship through homespun protest activism, the powerful release of poetry and song, and the burning light of friendship.
In a film both complex and whimsical, directors Estefanía “Beba” Contreras and Silvia Del Carmen Castaños spotlight their own lives in a free-flowing ode to the particular love we find in friendship. Hummingbirds is rooted in a specific time as a document of a generation, while simultaneously evoking a feeling familiar to us all — that summer-long moment that marks the transition from adolescence to adulthood, where the world is infinite but centered in the beauty of the intimate.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Born in Laredo, Texas, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños lives and works as a filmmaker and urban transit planner in Boston. They are a 2021 NBCU Original Voices Fellow, a 2021 Sundance/WIF Financing Intensive Fellow, a 2021 Points North/LEF Fellow, a 2022 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow, and a 2022-2024 Firelight Documentary Fellow. Their debut film, Hummingbirds was the 2023 Grand Prix winner of the Berlinale Generation 14plus section.
Estefanía “Beba” Contreras is a musician, visual artist, and tattoo artist as well as a filmmaker who was born in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and grew up in Laredo, Texas. She is a 2021 NBCU Original Voices Fellow, 2021 Sundance/WIF Financing Intensive Fellow, and a 2022-2024 Firelight Documentary Fellow. Hummingbirds, for which she also composed the score, is her first film.
Berlin International Film Festival (2023) — Grand Prix, Berlinale Generation
Berlin International Film Festival (2023) — World Premiere
True/False Film Festival (2023) — Official Selection
San Francisco Film Festival (2023) — Official Selection