LAFF Reception + Screening + Live Music at Terraza 7: "Agua es Vida"

Location:

Terraza 7

40-19 Gleane Street Queens, NY 11373 United States

Event:

🎥 5PM: Film Screening — "Agua es Vida" (@waterforlifedoc)🎶 Live music by (7PM) @mehrnam_rastegari + (10PM) @guachinangos

Join us at BronxArtSpace for the reception of the 8th Annual Latin American Foto Festival, hosted by the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC). This year, we’re excited to expand the festival to BronxArtSpace, showcasing photography from across Latin America.

Featuring:Coletivo FotoFlores | Brazil, Federico Rios | Venezuela ,Bats’i Lab | Mexico, Mikey Cordero | Puerto Rico, and Boris Mercado | Peru.

On View: July 24-Aug 3, 2025

"Agua es Vida" (Water For Life) explores the collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the lives of three Latin American community leaders. The right to clean water is a global issue—in Latin America it has become a matter of life and death.Narrated by Mexican actor Diego Luna with the original song Ko (Water) sungby Grammy Award-winning Mexican Mixtec singer Lila Downs and Chilean Mapuche singer-songwriter Daniela Millaleo.

"Agua es Vida" (Water For Life) tells the story of three extraordinary individuals: Berta Cáceres, a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let government supported industry and transnational corporations take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric projects or large scale agriculture. Despite reassurances from companies and the authorities, they knew what lay ahead: contaminated water, environmental devastation, and the destruction of their communities.

📍 Please note: This event takes place at Terraza 7, not at the BDC.

This event is held in conjunction with the BDC's 8th Annual Latin American Foto Festival.

The Latin American Foto Festival is curated by Cynthia Rivera and Michael Kamber.

Outdoor vinyl exhibitions printed by Photoville.

Wheat pasting is being done in collaboration with DYSTURB.The Latin American Foto Festival’s citywide events are organized in collaboration with The Action Lab, FujiFilm, and Montefiore Einstein.