FESTIVAL DE LA FILM INDIGENEUX: PÉROU - CONNECTION - (USA) @ 20:30pm Laissez vivreFESTIVAL DE LA FILM INDIGENEUX: PÉROU - CONNECTION - (USA) @ 20:30pm Laissez vivre

The LA INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL brings audiences the best of independent Indigenous filmmaking and celebrates what makes this genre unique and exciting. We recognize that Indigenous identity is diverse and includes the First Peoples of what is now the United States as well as Indigenous nations and communities globally. We encourage filmmakers to self-identify their community affiliation or nation in their submission. SCREENING: PERU - CONNECTION - (USA) is a full feature documentary directed by Louis Lam about the Quechua speaking indigenous people of the Andes Mountain in Peru and their connection to nature, simplicity of life, and content through Pachamama their mother earth. It explores the injustice from the Peruvian government against these people as well as history of forced sterilization of women, to the most current protests on inequality. It reflects our own disconnection of modernity from nature and how we should reconnect ourselves not only to our own culture but the nature that has nourished it. We are an affiliate festival of the LA FILM FESTIVALS organization that has the dual emphasis of discovering great talent with the purpose of promoting their work to both the LA public and the entertainment industry, as well as showcasing the work of seasoned professionals and well-known stars. LA Film Festivals began with the biannual LA Comedy Festival in 2001, adding the biannual LA Indie Film Fest in 2007. The LA Film Festival family has since expanded to 12 independent film festivals, including LA Horror Film Fest, LA Action Film Fest, LA Sci-Fi Film Fest, LA Animation Film Fest, LA Black Film Fest, LA Asian Film Fest, LA Latinx Film Fest, LA Queer Film Fest, LA Women in Film Fest, LA Student Film Fest and LA Indigenous Film Fest. Over the years, LA Film Festivals have attracted thousands of filmmakers from around the world. Each festival features live screenings in our own Let Live Theater in the heart of Los Angeles. Our two 80-seat theaters, in the heart of Hollywood, are outfitted with laser DLP projectors and JBL speakers throughout the venue, delivering top notch quality in an intimate screening environment. Filmmakers whose work is accepted into our festival will receive free passes to screenings, invitations to networking events and are eligible for awards consideration.