Special screening of The Unique Ladies and workshop with Gloria Morán
Leeway in partnership with the Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival presents the screening of The Unique Ladies, a short documentary aimed to expose an audience to Lowrider culture localized around women’s work and participation. Using a hybrid style of verité footage with interwoven interviews, The Unique Ladies take you on a funky ride down the streets of Chicano San Diego. Filmmaker Gloria Morán will be present to discuss film. April 27 at 1:30pm at the International House.
Note: Gloria will also be teaching a master class at Scribe Video Center on April 28 from 1:00pm-3:00pm entitled "Transmedia Storytelling".
About Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival
The Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival will showcase the extraordinary and innovative work of Latin American and Latino filmmakers. This is the first Annual Film Festival in the region to focus exclusively on the exhibition of Latin American and Latino film and media artists.
The Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival's mission is to showcase and nurture established and emerging creative Latin American and Latino filmmakers; to promote and celebrate the richness and diversity of Latin American/Latino cultures and experiences, and to foster cross-cultural understanding and dialogue.
About Unique Ladies
Cruising low and slow through the streets of Chicano San Diego is the city’s only all women’s car club, the Unique Ladies. Members Pat and Sherry turn heads with their show stopping vehicles, and cause a stir by challenging the gender norm: where men rule the road and women take the sidelines. Although it’s been a constant struggle to keep their club alive, they’ve managed to make it to their fifth year. Now the ladies want to take it a step further and expand the club, inviting another lady lowrider to their club, Linda. Their progress encounters a few bumps on the road as the lowrider scene in still resistant to women taking the driver’s seat.
About Gloria Morán
Gloria Morán is a filmmaker based out of San Francisco, California. She currently resides in Echo Park of Los Angeles while completing her most recent short film, The Unique Ladies. Her second-generation Chicana upbringing greatly informs her work. Merging theories and practices of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Gloria’s films seek to highlight Chicana/o and Latina/o art and practice. Gloria directed and produced a short documentary about gentrification in the Mission District of San Francisco and one San Francisco native’s interpretation of this change titled Homes for the Homies, and was reviewed as SF Weekly’s “Best Pick” for The Mission Cultural Center Videofest 2010 and made it’s Los Angeles Premiere at the 2012 Reel Rasquache Art and Film Festival.
While working on a Master’s degree in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University Gloria worked at the youth media lab Conscious Youth Media Crew (CYMC) for at-risk and low-income youth of San Francisco, where she assisted several student directed films. Gloria has taught as an adjunct lecturer in Film and Latina/o studies in addition to frequently guest lecturing on the subject area of lowriding and Chicana/o popular culture and its impact on culture and community. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in Latin American and Latino Studies and Journalism and a Master of arts degree in Social Documentation, both from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and was a 2011 NALIP Latino Producer’s Academy fellow.
