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“Though the film abstains from any particular environmental statement—the dialogue itself is even sparse—the gratitude that the protagonists and other Mayan fishermen display for an ecosystem that provides them with all the resources they need to subsist is contagious. It is the absence of a message that makes Alamar an impressionable artistic work where many other eco-activist films have failed.” - Audubon Magazine

"The characters in Alamar may be playing versions of themselves, but the writer, editor and director Pedro González-Rubio has constructed a film in which the journey has an overarching mythic resonance that evokes fables from “Robinson Crusoe” to “The Old Man and the Sea.” - Stephen Holden, The New York Times

A love story between father and son, man and nature, water and sky, ALAMAR is set in the turquoise waters of Banco Chinchorro in the Caribbean, home to thousands of species of fish and Mexico's largest coral reef. Living somewhere on the cusp between fiction and documentary, the film tells the story of a young boy whose divorced parents (an Italian mother and Mexican father) make him a child of two worlds. The strikingly handsome Jorge, muscled, tattooed and mustachioed, transports the urban child to this natural paradise to teach him to dive for lobster, and fish for barracuda, spending days on a tiny fishing boat and nights in a reed-roofed cabin that floats atop the water. Egrets and crocodiles are their neighbors in this aquatic Neverland.

dir. Pedro Gonzales-Rubio, w/ Jorge Machado, Natan Machado Palombini, in Spanish and Italian with English subtitles, 1h13m

See What I'm Saying follows the journeys of 4 deaf entertainers through one year as their stories intertwine and culminate in some of the largest events of their lives. Bob, a drummer in the world's only deaf rock band "Beethoven's Nightmare", produces the largest show in the band's 30 year history. CJ, a comic famous around the world, but unknown to hearing people, fights to cross over to mainstream audiences by producing the first international sign language theatre festival in Los Angeles. Robert, a brilliant actor who teaches at Juilliard struggles to survive when he becomes homeless. TL, a hard of hearing singer is caught between two worlds when she produces her first CD "Not Deaf Enough." The documentary is the first American film to be fully open captioned for the country's 36 million deaf and hard of hearing and to open the door into deaf culture for those who are "signing impaired."