Latin Connections Festival - El cine soy yo (The Moving Picture Man)

About the film

After being a peddler, street photographer, radio announcer, policeman, and mechanic, Jacinto (Asdrúbal Melendez) decides to become a film projectionist and bring cinema experiences to the people of Venezuela. To get away from the big city, this “Jack of all trades”, decides to transform a truck into a travelling cinema shaped like a whale. Manuel (Alvaro Roche), a brave eleven-year-old orphan offers his help and becomes part of Jacinto’s trip. Juliet (Juliet Berto), a mysterious French woman also looking for adventure, joins them in this cinematic journey to the end of the world. El Cine Soy Yo, also known also as The Moving Picture Man is a Venezuelan/French film released in 1977, directed by the prolific film director and writer Luis Armando Roche (1938 - 2021) with Juliet Berto, Asdrúbal Meléndez and Alvaro Roche. It is one of the most representative films of Venezuelan cinema and a celebration of the power of cinema in the most unimaginable circumstances.

With thanks to Bolivar Films, Marie-Françoise Barré de Roche and Cinema Rediscovered.

Cinema Rediscovered on tour is a Watershed project in collaboration with Park Circus and StudioCanal. With support from BFI awarding funds from The National Lottery.

About Latin Connections

The fourth edition of Latin Connections will celebrate and bring together the cinema and culture of the countries that connect with Latinidad, hosting a vibrant programme that will be held between May and early June. Our goal is to combine Iberoamerican and local culture through art and cinema, showing the richness and diversity of Hispanic cinema within all nations that share a link with Latinidad.

Latin Connections festival is run by CinemaAttic, a collective specialising in pop-up film screenings, underground events and retrospectives on Iberian & Latin American Cinema across Scotland.

You can see the full festival programme at this link.

Notes

Runtime - 94 minutes

Recommended age guidnace - 15+

Spanish with English descriptive subtitles. Descriptive subtitles transcribe both dialogue and key sounds from the film, such as [kettle whistling] or [door slamming]

The film will start promptly at 7pm without trailers.

Light refreshments will be available for sale

Grassmarket Community Project is a wheelchair-accessible venue.