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Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield
Film + Fire
"El Rey de los Coleaderos (The King of the Bull-tailers)"
FRIDAY, February 24, 2006 / 7:30pm

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ABOUT THE FILM
El Rey de los Coleaderos (The King of the Bull-tailers)
Directed by Hector Hernandez and Elena Pardo
70 min, Spanish with English subtitles, Mexico 2004

En un lugar donde los mitos se hacen canción, en un día que los hombres regresan a cumplir su destino, un hombre se conquistó a sí mismo. Juan de la Torre, llamado El Rey de los Coleaderos, originario de Jerez, Zacatecas, nació charro en familia pobre y nunca pudo practicar a fondo su pasión por este costoso deporte. Hoy en día la charrería profesional es un deporte de hombres ricos.

Pero un día, Juan emigró a Los Angeles, California, y después de muchos obstáculos logró volverse rico. Y como nunca olvidó su pasión, ha invertido todo su dinero en ser un charro profesional. Así, cada año vuelve a Jerez, para desfilar orgulloso en el Sábado de Gloria. Y tan apasionado por la charrería ha sido este hombre, que un día le compusieron un corrido llamado precisamente El Rey de los Coleaderos. Ni emigrante sin identidad en California, ni campesino anónimo en Zacatecas, Juan ha sabido triunfar en México y en Estados Unidos. Esta es la historia de un hombre que se hizo leyenda.

ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD PROJECT
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.

ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by the Annenberg Foundation.

 

 

 

March 31, 2006:
The Not A Cornfield project team has handed the keys to the Cornfield site back to State Parks and moved across the street into our new offices at 1745 Spring St.
Contact State Parks for public access and information about tours and open hours.

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