{"id":24439,"date":"2025-09-12T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=24439"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:04:13","slug":"esu-holds-latino-heritage-month-film-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-holds-latino-heritage-month-film-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Holds Latino Heritage Month Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University celebrates Latino Heritage Month with its 12<sup>th<\/sup> Latino Heritage Film Series. The festival will be held on Saturday, September 27 at Pocono Cinema &amp; Cultural Center, 88 S. Courtland St., East Stroudsburg. The festival is co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Religion and the ESU Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off the film festival will be <em>Querido tr\u00f3pico \/Beloved Tropic <\/em>at 1:30 p.m. <em>Querido tr\u00f3pico<\/em>, shown in Spanish and English with subtitles, is about a pregnant immigrant from Colombia who connects with a wealthy woman suffering from dementia in Panama City, and their lives intertwine. There will be a Q&amp;A with director Ana Endara Mislov following the screening.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fen\u00f3menos naturales \/Natural Phenomena <\/em>will be shown at 4 p.m. in Spanish and English with subtitles. <em>Fen\u00f3menos naturales <\/em>is a tropical Cuban reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz. Vilma is a crack shot eager to enter the national skeet shooting competition. Unfortunately for her, pregnant women are barred from competing, dashing her hopes &#8212; until a freak tornado whisks her over the rainbow to Ni\u00f1a Bonita, the isle hosting the tournament. Donning a blue dress and red slippers, Vilma sets out to prove her mettle in a strange land. There will be a Q&amp;A with the director, Marcos D\u00edaz Sosa, following the screening.<\/p>\n<p>Both films are free and open to the public. For further information contact Annie Mendoza, Ph.D., professor of modern languages at (570) 422-3842 or email <a href=\"mailto:amendoza@esu.edu\">amendoza@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University celebrates Latino Heritage Month with its 12th Latino Heritage Film Series. The festival will be held on Saturday, September 27 at Pocono Cinema &amp; Cultural Center, 88 S. Courtland St., East Stroudsburg. The festival is co-sponsored by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24442,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439\/revisions\/24442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}