FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 
Contact: Rodd Rodriguez

 
The Rodd Group

 
Tel:  212-629-6460 

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POLITICS CON SABOR

Documentary Film Premiere

 

New York, New York

 

Terramax Entertainment, an independent film and television production
company, in association with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at
Hunter College/CUNY are presenting the Premiere of the documentary film
Politics Con Sabor, the film chronicles the history of the political
empowerment of Hispanic in New York State from the early 1900's to the
present.

 

Writer/Producer/Director, Rafael J. Rivera-Viruet says."the film is told in
vignettes by over sixty former and present elected officials, community and
business leaders; and contains candid interviews and footage that will
surprise the audience."

 

CENTRO sees the potential of the Hispanic voting block on a national level
and wants to be part of a National Hispanic Agenda to establish a college
level course to teach the importance of political empowerment in the United
States.

 

The film will be shown in two parts:

 

Part I, takes place from 1898 through 1969 mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan
and will have its Premiere at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College on
Lexington Avenue and 68th Street at 8:00PM on Tuesday, May 23rd.

 

Part II, takes place from 1970 to the present and will make its Premiere at
Hostos Community College/CUNY on 149th Street and the Grand Concourse in the
Bronx at 8:00 PM on Friday, May 26th.  

 

 

 

 

 


For more information on Centro Events, please visit http://centropr.org/events/index.html or call (212)772-5714.

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