{"id":25122,"date":"2026-09-16T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=25122"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:08:27","slug":"esu-holds-latino-heritage-month-film-series-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-holds-latino-heritage-month-film-series-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Holds Latino Heritage Month Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University celebrates Latino Heritage Month with its 13<sup>th<\/sup> Latino Heritage Film Series. The festival will be held on Saturday, September 26 in Beers Lecture Hall on ESU\u2019s campus. The festival is co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Religion, the Office of the Provost, the ESU Foundation, and Kemp Library.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off the film festival will be <em>The Ritual <\/em>at 2 p.m. <em>The Ritual<\/em>, shown in Spanish and English with subtitles, is about a woman who\u2019s watching her life and her grip on reality unravel as she is stalked by a malevolent presence. Before it consumes her, she must choose to fight back or surrender. There will be a Q&amp;A with director Larry V. Santana \u201906 following the screening.<\/p>\n<p><em>P\u00e9rez Rodr\u00edguez <\/em>will be shown at 3 p.m. in Spanish and English with subtitles. Carlos, Cristina, and Carmen are the <em>P\u00e9rez Rodr\u00edguez <\/em>siblings, a middle-class family in the Dominican Republic whose lives are turned upside down by their father\u2019s death. Amid three gatherings \u2013 a birth, a funeral, and a birthday \u2013 family revelations come to the surface and unleash secrets, resentments, and confrontations that will test the value of their bonds. There will be a Q&amp;A with the director, Humberto Tav\u00e1rez, following the screening.<\/p>\n<p>Both films are free and open to the public. For further information visit 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU celebrates Latino Heritage Month with its 13<sup>th<\/sup> Latino Heritage Film Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":25127,"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":[143,42,58,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122"}],"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=25122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25128,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122\/revisions\/25128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}