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December 30th, 2017

12/30/2017

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GRACIAS FOR 2017
Thank you, dear friends, for helping us manifest Nasario remembers the Río Puerco with such truth and beauty. We're still in awe of all that came to pass this year - finishing the film, of course, and then, to see it:
  • broadcast on New Mexico PBS 
  • screened in Santa Fe, Albuquerque  and a mountain town in Spain 
  • streaming on NM PBS (you can still watch it for one more day thru 12/31)
  • available on DVD 
  • receive such heartfelt responses such as this one by famed NM author John Nichols" “exquisite – it’s up there with the best I’ve ever seen.”
And we're just getting started!
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Inspired once again, we now plan to go forth and self-distribute the film.
In select locations, we want to link screenings with community sharing/oral history gatherings. As part of the mission of our new project, Faraway is Close, we mean to connect communities & cultures through story, film, song.
We hope to arrange screenings in:
  • Southern Spain (where the story of the film begins)
  • New Mexico, focusing on Native and Hispanic communities.
  • Around the world, starting with a few connections we have in Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.
  • Now that we have a Spanish dubbed version, all of South America
and Latin America are open markets for us!
  • And we will submit to some festivals & reach out to theatrical, TV and educational distributors.

Our vision is to create true and profound encounters with audiences and co-presenting partners, to inspire us all to listen and speak the story only we - only you - can tell.

 
One good story deserves another…and another…
SUPPORT THE STORY   JOIN the JOURNEY
 Thank you!  Gracias. Shukriya

Here’s to the adventure of what comes next.
 
And most of all, dear friends, here’s to you.
We're looking forward to our journeys together.
 
As always with profound gratitude
Shebana Coelho, director
and the team at Nasario remembers the Río Puerco
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INSPIRED BY THE RIO PUERCO

12/27/2017

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 Last April, Iren Schio and David Fant  - friends of our film who felt so inspired by the Rio Puerco and Nasario's stories - led the students of Santa Fe's Little Earth School in art and song projects!

Iren helped the students create dioramas from word images (by Nasario ) - using soil, rocks and plant fragments from the Río Puerco Valley and incorporating drawings, paintings and clay to make his memories come alive through each creation .

Dave (aka Cowboy Blue) created a song inspired by Nasario - he and the children performed it for Nasario. Olé.

These are the kinds of beautiful evocative arts and humanities interplay that we hope to encourage and inspire in more workshops, more gatherings, to bring out what happens when you encounter the stories that speak or sing to you!

A big THANKS to Iren, David, and the Little Earth School students and teachers and principal, Ellen Souberman

MORE ABOUT IREN AND DAVID HERE
https://www.nasarioremembers.com/team.html

ABOUT LITTLE EARTH SCHOOL
https://littleearthschool.org/
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GIVING  THANKS  THIS NOVEMBER

11/21/2017

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So much news to share. So much to be thankful for, this November

  • it's up there with the best documentaries I've seen" What we heard after the film's broadcast...from iconic NM author, John Nichols to begin with...More aquí
 
  • Now streaming online - on New Mexico PBS  through December 31
 
  • What a beautiful reception at our first screening in Capileira, Spain-  with our new Spanish dubbed version.
 
  • Our new Spanish website and trailer
 
  • Our DVD now available for purchase, featured in the Weekly ALIBI "Cinematic Gifts"
 
  • We invite your support for our next steps, Faraway and Close. Join our journey as we launch a new project - sharing these NM stories to inspire storytelling across cultures.

ABRAZOS and GRATITUDE - Happy Thanksgiving!
Shebana and the team at Nasario remembers the Río Puerco
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IN CAPILEIRA

11/16/2017

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What a beautiful series of screenings in Capileira. It went like this.
Alicia and I walked around the town the day before, greeting people here and there - and putting up posters where you put up posters - everyone knew about it - it was lovely to hear -  a bit like town criers!
And people came. Carmen emceed. I said a few words. Cristina and Paula of Flamenco La Fuente danced and took us into the frequency of feeling that starts the film. (see a short video on their FB page here)
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And folks watched the movie and they liked it, they really loved it. Thy spoke of so much in common, the old stories of living on the land, the Era of there and here, the place where they winnowed wheat, the absorption with water, (pun intended), the songs, the dwindling of stories, the leaving of younger folks for the cities. They spoke of the tenderness of the stories, of hearing Nasario in Spanish and how moving that this was the first screening in Spain.

Toñi and Luisa shared a message for Nasario in Spanish. Alicia shared some thoughts about the screenings in English - what made it a good fit for Capileira, her summary of the reactions...
Luisa:
I loved the stories of your family, your mother, your father, I loved that...and I've lived the same story of it raining inside the house, and living 7 to a room. I really loved the film.
I'm so happy to know you.
Toñi
I loved the film, it made me sad the desolation, the lack of water...here water is important, here it's not a problem. what I loved was your oral storytelling. this has been lost with technology. it was beautiful to speak about oral traditions of our ancestors. this touched my heart.....
we too here have lived a life on the land, of working hard, of fields and  threshing, winnowing wheat. this film made me remember.

 Interview with Alicia Perez Padron in English. Alicia made this screening possible and she shares thoughts on Capileira's reaction to the film, including stories of who came
and who came back (Luisa! who came back with her whole family)


I shared with Fernando, the lieutenant mayor, Nasario's children's book, Grandma Lale's Tamales, which will live in the Capileira Library. And Alicia poured the wine and we kept on talking...And so it went...

Muchas Gracias, Capileira. A big THANKS to everyone, especially Alicia Perez Padron, Carmen, Flamenco La Fuente, and of course the Ayuntamiento de Caplieira.

Next stop - Granada proper...where we will discuss the possibility of more screenings next year, all over Andalucia =  here is where the story began after all - check out our SPAIN TRAILER AND WEBSITE AS WE PREPARE these next steps:  www.nasariorecuerda.com

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WHAT YOU SAID....

10/23/2017

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...after seeing the film...

A special acknowledgement to the one and only John Nichols, who called us right after the broadcast to say

"That was a really beautiful movie. It was wonderful documentary! And Nasario did great. It was very, very moving. Just exquisite and very powerful, so thank you, thank you ... It's right up there with the best I've ever seen."

To receive these words from the writer of one of the most beautiful stories about NM ever put to print and film, The Milagro Beanfield War  and 18 other books including My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose  -well, it made our night, our year.

Read more about John Nichols here.

www.johnnicholsbooks.com
The Milagro Beanfield War. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974
My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017



THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSES

My appreciation to you for airing the program on the Rio Puerco.  The photography was beautiful and the Nasario reminiscents were invaluable, both of the past and present.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Every story shared was like the many water drops of the Rio Puerco flowing again through the Arroyo a day of rain. Each story like a little Rosary pearl of wisdom. It felt so nourishing for the soul.

I’ve hardly ever loved anything as much as watching you in the Rio Puerto Valley tonight on PBS. You took us back to a universal place that was all yours and somehow ours at the very same time. Truly marvelous.

What we witnessed last eve at the museo was really very, very, very, very, very outstanding.  That was Academy Award work we saw!...It was so well-done in every respect.  A real gem...

You and your story inspire me!  What a beautiful way to tell the story with the music and scenery…  it is magical!  

Watching your documentary,   OMG. I can't hold back the tears..........you have brought back so many memories.  

I am still sitting here rethinking parts of it that were so captivating..allowing me to cry for the simple beauty of a time and place that left it’s mark on this land and it’s people. Thank you for capturing so well the bittersweet journey that Nasario takes us on that reflects and embodies so beautifully the heart touching legacy of his family of ancestors and their spiritual connection to the land and one another.  

Your film...peeled away the years for me. I was at my grandmother's knee again, hearing her stories, the scents in her tiny kitchen in small town Iowa. My grandfather sitting on the porch... A time and place long gone, but alive in my soul. Thank you for this gift!

The film is exquisite. I was deeply moved by how well all of you captured a period of time and a group of people I sure wish there were more of around today. 

Some of it reminded me of my own mother’s experience, and I thought of her often during the presentation.

Nos alegró muchísimo tu salida en la pantalla grande ¡Ahuuuuuyayayajá!! Fue un placer muy grande ver en vivo todos tus lugares de corazón. Tu querencia entera. Y ahora un estreno en España - fabuloso. Fue toda una inspiración. Los elementos musicales fueron realmente impresionantes también. ¡Ay, ay, ay!


The work is so beautiful.  So much poetry, lyricism and pathos. It had a wonderful quietude in its tone...It is a kind of love song to New Mexico.
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poster design Arianna Borgeson
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Nasario & Shebana on KSFR's WAKE UP CALL

10/12/2017

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A lovely thoughtful conversation with Ellen Lockyer on KSFR's Wake Up Call this morning.
Read/LISTEN at KSFR link or below
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PREVIEW SCREENINGS

10/7/2017

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Thanks to our lovely audiences in ABQ and Santa Fe, October 4 and 5 - so wonderful to share the first preview screenings with you! Next stop, NM PBS, Ch-5, on October 12 at 7pm!
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rEEL NM BLOG - by Adrian Gomez, ABQ journal

10/6/2017

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Read the article on the ABQ Journal Website
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Read the article on the ABQ Journal Website
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COME SEE THE FILM!

9/17/2017

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our new poster

9/17/2017

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Designed by Arianna Borgeson, our Assistant Editor/Assistant Producer
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