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Dear all, Please join us at the Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research <https://cicr.blogs.sas.ac.uk/> next week for a very special screening of the Dominican film La Gunguna <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1JpIqZBSyk> . The film will be followed by a Q&A with director Ernesto Alemany who is currently touring the UK to showcase his film. *Date: *Tuesday 11th December 2018 *Time: *6.30 - 8.30 p.m. *Location:* Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HU The event is free to attend, registration is essential: https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17774 *Ernesto Alemany’s La Gunguna (2015) tells the story of a tiny pistol with a dark history. With a legendary past supposedly linking it to a trio of dictators – Mussolini, Franco, and Trujillo – the gun has the potential to act as a protective amulet or, if its one rule is broken, a curse. After passing from corrupt military men, to pimps, to professional pool players, and more, the gun ends up in the hands of good guy Montás, an unemployed construction worker with a mission that sets him off on a quest to find the President. As it circulates among this bizarre cast of characters, the gun reveals a chaotic Caribbean underworld that is portrayed with unrelenting dark humour and more than the odd nod to Tarantino.* *Ernesto Alemany* is a Dominican film producer and director known for La Gunguna (2015), Loki 7 (2016), and La musiquita por dentro (2018). With a background in commercial and music video directing, Alemany forms part of a new wave of Dominican filmmakers benefitting from a new film law in the country, a wave which has produced international successes such as Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán's Dólares de arena (2015), and Nelson de los Santos Arias' Cocote (2017). With regards, Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf University of Edinburgh ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CARIBBEAN-STUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CARIBBEAN-STUDIES&A=1