2008 Films

La Corona / Please Vote for Me

• La Corona (The Crown)

  
  2007. USA. 40 mins. Directed by Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega. Produced by Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega.

  A fierce competition rages at the Good Shepherd prison, the largest women’s penitentiary in Colombia. After surviving brutal rounds of bathing suit, evening gown, and talent competitions, the last woman standing will don the coveted crown as winner of the prison’s annual beauty pageant. Will you root for the cocky assassin, the demure guerilla fighter, or the charismatic armed robber? This fascinating and somewhat sobering Academy Award-nominated film provides intimate access to trash-talking beauty queens as they throw themselves wholeheartedly into a spectacle that is a little odd even for a country where beauty pageants reign supreme. MP

• Please Vote For Me

  
  2007. China/Denmark. 55 mins. Directed by Weijun Chen. Produced by Don Edkins.

  Third graders elect a class monitor at the Evergreen Primary School in rural China, voting for the first time in their lives. Three candidates jump into the electoral process, and cutthroat competition, negative campaigning, insults, alliances, bribes, lies, promises, threats, and tears all ensue as democracy is birthed the hard way. You can’t take your eyes off the riveting twists and turns as three devious aspirants and their crafty parents plot their strategies and devise dirty tricks for victory. LB

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