THURSDAY 04/15/10
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) is a 2 week long film festival that highlights 422 films, showing every hour, every day, between 3-4 theaters. After volunteering, I went to eat lunch at Mussetta Café, the restaurant kitty-corner from my house, and as I entered, I noticed two women that seemed a bit out of place (mainly because they were black, which signaled to me that they weren’t Argentine – not too much diversity in the main areas of the city). I sat down, and then recognized one as looking awfully familiar. The table next to them had 2 Argentine gentlemen who were chatting with them briefly. From the attitude of the women, I realized they were not even your typical rude Americans – it was definitely Angela Basset and a friend of hers. They we wearing BAFICI name tags and an interpreter joined them halfway through their meal. It was kind of exciting to think of a celebrity right in my neighborhood.
That night, my friend, Ana, and I went to a showing of one of the films for the BAFICI, La Cinta Blanca. It was a German film (with Spanish subtitles) – an interesting black and white film that takes place in a small town pre-WWI.
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) is a 2 week long film festival that highlights 422 films, showing every hour, every day, between 3-4 theaters. After volunteering, I went to eat lunch at Mussetta Café, the restaurant kitty-corner from my house, and as I entered, I noticed two women that seemed a bit out of place (mainly because they were black, which signaled to me that they weren’t Argentine – not too much diversity in the main areas of the city). I sat down, and then recognized one as looking awfully familiar. The table next to them had 2 Argentine gentlemen who were chatting with them briefly. From the attitude of the women, I realized they were not even your typical rude Americans – it was definitely Angela Basset and a friend of hers. They we wearing BAFICI name tags and an interpreter joined them halfway through their meal. It was kind of exciting to think of a celebrity right in my neighborhood.
That night, my friend, Ana, and I went to a showing of one of the films for the BAFICI, La Cinta Blanca. It was a German film (with Spanish subtitles) – an interesting black and white film that takes place in a small town pre-WWI.
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