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Torremolinos 73 » April 9, Free
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Cine Club April: Ciclo España
Wednesday, April 9, 8:30pm, Free at the Cuale Cultural Center Auditorium
THE PLOT: The protagonist, Alfredo López, is an exasperated encyclopedia salesman for Montoya Publishing House and lives with his faithful wife Carmen in 1973 Spain. Carmen and Alfredo are offered by the Montoya Publishing House to create pornographic films that will be imported into Scandinavian countries under the pretense of being an audiovisual encyclopedia of human reproduction. Unknowingly, Carmen becomes an adult film star in the Northern European countries though they are well-paid for their films. In the meantime Alfredo and Carmen are trying to have a child and Carmen discovers that Alfredo has a sperm count of zero.
Inspired to become a film-maker, Alfredo writes a Ingmar Bergman-inspired feature film titled Torremolinos 73. His boss offers to fund the filming of it with Alfredo as director and Carmen as the female star.
At Carmen’s suggestion, Alfredo’s boss changes the final scene so that Carmen is to have sex with her male co-star so as to get herself pregnant. Alfredo eventually accepts this and the film ends with the couple having a daughter, and Alfredo beginning a new career as a wedding film director.
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1st Annual PVScene Cartoon Contest Winner » Joe Valencia
Joe Valencia of Puerto Vallarta is the winner of the 1001 peso prize in the 1st annual PVScene Cartoon Contest.
Congratulations, Joe. The judges worked nearly all night deciding the winner. There were 10 artists entering this competition, with 14 separate entries. All except one were great (and you know who you are…) and we would be honored to display any of them on our website.
5 Local Authors Book Signing » April 9
Five of Vallarta’s best local book authors will get together for a group book signing symposium on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 from 10:30 am until 12 Noon (Jalisco time) at the NVBookstore, on the 2nd Floor of Paradise Plaza Mall, part of the Paradise Village resort area in Nuevo Vallarta.
This is your chance to meet these interesting people, who live in the Vallarta area and whose talent adds to the vibrant Vallarta culture. Their book subjects are varied, including Vallarta nature, mysteries set in the Vallarta area, memoirs of Puerto Vallarta’s past, as well as inspirational and self-help books. Light refreshments will be provided.
Featured authors include:
Robert Hardin
Hardin’s first career was in sales; he later earned a law degree and practiced tax law. He eased into retirement, working part time as a factotum in a Sausalito law firm for several years and living on a sailboat in Sausalito harbor. A late-in-life marriage in 2002 brought him back to live on dry land, this time in Sebastopol, CA. When Hardin fully retired at the end of 2004 he and his wife moved to Mexico and are enjoying life in Yelapa, a small remote fishing village south of Puerto Vallarta. Robert now works full time as an author and, just as his mother did, reads mysteries like eating peanuts. Paradise Marred is his fifth novel in the David Armstrong courtroom thriller series.
Featured Book:
• Paradise Marred
R.D. Lyons
A retired International lawyer, R.D. (David) Lyons is a long-time resident of Puerto Vallarta. When not writing, he can be found singing jazz standards to his own guitar accompaniment at several of the town’s popular venues.
Featured Book:
• Mexico’s Hidden Gold
Jenny McGill
Infused with candid humor, McGill recounts her experience in Puerto Vallarta, going back to 1973 when she and husband Howard first moved to Puerto Vallarta, continuing through her years as an English teacher and subsequently as the second ever US consular agent in Puerto Vallarta.
Featured Book:
• Drama & Diplomacy
Petr Myska
Petr Myska is a zoologist, conservationist and photographer of Czech origin who has been a resident of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico since 2002. Petr has worked as a researcher for the Czech Academy of Science and as a correspondent for the BBC radio. He has traveled extensively in Latin America, is the founder and manager of Viva Natura, an online source on the Biodiversity of Mexico, and the owner of Viva Natura publisher.
Featured Book:
• Viva Natura: Field Guide to the Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals of Western Mexico
Linda Abbott Trapp
Dr. Linda Abbott Trapp lives and writes in Nuevo Vallarta. A former Dean of the California School of Professional Psychology, she has given over 3000 seminars throughout the US and abroad. Her 7 books and more than 200 articles cover several decades and the fields of cross-cultural psychology, the arts, music, environmental concerns, social justice, business management, and theology. She is married and has four grown children.
Featured Books:
• Ornamental Plants & Flowers of Mexico
• Letters to My Granddaughters
• Intentional Living
NVBookstore offers full service, specializing in “Everything about Mexico,” and is a Mexican/American partnership. It is co-located with Vilma’s Yacht Services, which offer immigration services, UPS packaging, mail delivery from the USA, and property management services. For more information, visit nvbookstore.com or call (322) 297-2274.
Lucia y El Sexo » Free Film » April 2
Free Film at the Cuale Cultural Center, Wednesday, April 2, 8:30pm
“To say this film is hot may be the cinematic understatement of the year” – E! Online
“One of the best movies of the year and one of the most erotic movies ever made.” – Jim Svejda, CBS Radio Network
“Brilliant in every respect, ‘Sex and Lucía’ is a rich, rewarding journey. The most wondrous love story in years, it is a great film.” – Tim Merrill, Film Threat
From acclaimed writer/director Julio Medem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Sex and Lucia is a visually stunning and thematically adventurous look at passion, elusive relationships and deep bonds between people who thought they were strangers. Featuring the stunning Paz Vega as Lucia.
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