Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) August 4, 2010

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP)'s Chase 2010 Latino Cultural Festival, taking place from July 29 to August 8 at Queens Theatre in the Park, presents a showing of Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 7:30pm. The screening takes place at the Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY. Tickes are free. For reservations call the Box Office at 718-760-0064.

This is the 14th year of the festival, which features 12 additional events, including music, dance, comedy, spoken word, film, and family-friendly performances, such as a concerts by Leon Gieco, a pop-folk musician who has been called the Argentine Bob Dylan, and Carlos Varela, one of Cuba’s most talented and emblematic artists.

Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) is a film directed by Natalia Almada made in 2005. The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles. Like many young men in Sinaloa, the drug capital of Mexico, Magdiel faces two choices to better his life: trafficking drugs or illegally crossing the border into the United States. But Magdiel has a special talent that could be his ticket out: composing corridos – ballads about the narcotics underworld and illegal immigrant life. For over 200 years, corridos have been Mexico's musical “underground newspaper,” and the voice of those rarely heard outside their communities. From Mexico to the streets of L.A., AL OTRO LADO explores the world of drug smuggling and immigration through corrido music. Appropriate for ages 15 and up.