Kaláka, from the Carpathians to the Caribbean

A Rendezvényről

Kaláka, from the Carpathians to the Caribbean Sea

Film screening with writer/director/producer Réka Pigniczky

Saturday, March 8 - 4 to 6pm

An inspirational musical story of the legendary Hungarian ensemble “Kaláka” as members go on an epic road trip from Budapest to Cartagena, carrying with them more than just instruments – they carry the soul of a poem, tracing it back to its origin. The journey is both historical and deeply personal for the members of the 55-year-old band and their newfound audiences worldwide.

Egy zenekar négy tagja útnak indul egy olyan városba, amelyről már évtizedek óta énekelnek, de még sosem jártak ott. A kolumbiai Cartagena-ban életükben először éneklik el Kányádi Sándor Románc című, magához a városhoz írt szerelmes versét. Az 55 éve muzsikáló Kaláka együttes megzenésített verseit már a harmadik generáció fújja kívülről. A „Kaláka” mindenütt ugyanazt jelenti a magyaroknak, bárhol is éljenek a világban: nyelvi és kulturális közösséget, összetartozást a verseken és a dalokon keresztül – a Kárpátoktól a Karib-tengerig.

Co-organized with American Hungarian Library and Historical Society

Tisztelt Vendégünk:

Réka Pigniczky

Réka Pigniczky co-founded 56 Films in Hungary in 2005. She completed her first feature-length documentary, Journey Home, at the end of 2006. It won awards in Hungary and was invited to screen at a number of international film festivals. She completed her second feature-length documentary, Inkubátor, in 2010, which saw a wide audience in Hungary through a national theatrical release as well as television broadcast, and it enjoyed wide critical acclaim after the Hungarian Film Festival. The film was also voted one of the 25 best films released in Hungary in 2010. Since then, she has completed a number of other award-winning films, shorts and a the Memory Project, a visual history archive of Hungarian refugees after WWII and 1956.

Réka started out as a television news producer, working for the Associated Press Television News both in New York. She has an MA in journalism and international relations from Columbia University in New York, an MA in political science from the Central European University in Budapest. and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. Réka was born and raised in the U.S. by Hungarian refugee parents. She is a native English and Hungarian speaker and fluent in Spanish.

Javasolt Adomány / Ár:

$15/adult, $10/HH Members, $5/child

Időtartalma

March 8, Saturday / 4-6pm

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