Dear Friends and Colleagues, The award winning and critically acclaimed film, BAD HAIR (PELO MALO), directed by Mariana Rondón, is now available for EDUCATIONAL PURCHASE. Critics’ Pick “An uncomfortably accurate depiction of a poignant mother-son power struggle in a fatherless family. [A] hard little gem of a film.” NEW YORK TIMES Recommended “This is an accomplished piece of social realist filmmaking, clear-eyed but tender.” CHICAGO READER “One of the best films you'll see this year.” SOUND AND SIGHT Junior is a precocious 9-year-old boy living in the housing projects of Caracas who wants nothing more than to straighten his tight curls for his yearbook photo. This desire, which borders on obsession, stirs homophobic panic in his mother, who is overtaxed from losing her husband, raising two children, and attempting to find a job. BAD HAIR showcases the cultural realities of working-class Venezuelans and shows the warmth and humor between mother and son even as the uncertainties of pre-adolescence threaten to pull them apart. BAD HAIR is an indispensable resource for Adolescence, Youth and Family Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sociology, and Latin-American Studies among other disciplines BAD HAIR is High School Appropriate. YOU CAN WATCH THE TRAILER AND ORDER THE DVD HERE: http://pragda.com/films/bad-hair View Pragda’s NEW RELEASES here: http://pragda.com/films FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Toronto International Film Festival Havana International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize: Best Film San Sebastian International Film Festival – Golden Seashell, Sebastiane Award Mar del Plata Film Festival – Best Director, Best Screenplay Montreal Festival of New Cinema – Acting Award Thessaloniki Film Festival – FRIPESCI Award, Bronze Alexander Rencontres Cinématographiques de CANNES – Best Film ADDITIONAL REVIEWS ”10 Latino Film to See From 2014." NBC NEWS “The Best Films of 2014 According to the Indie Film Community.” INDIEWIRE “A spare neorealist drama that holds attention and emotional involvement with its deft balance of toughness and sensitivity.” HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “The main attraction at this years San Sebastián, where it took home the top award, Mariana Rondóns Pelo Malo smartly draws from Italian neorealism to create an intimate, sparely successful depiction of hardship during childhood and sexual identity.” Pedro Ponte, TWITCH “Bold and intelligently perceptive film. Rondóns enthralling Bad Hair certainly challenges your prejudices.” Vanessa Martinez, INDIEWIRE “Rondón does a superb job of handling Juniors embryonic instincts, partly manifested by a pre-sexual attraction to a kiosk vendor he spies from his window.” Jay Weissberg, VARIETY “The most endearing film I saw out of 36 films [at the Toronto International Film Festival] was Bad Hair.” - Kent Turner, FILM FORWARD “Rondón manages to capture both the wide-eyed innocence of childhood and the grating sound of that innocence scraping against the harsh realities of economically oppressive urban life.” Brandy Dean, PRETTY CLEVER FILMS ABOUT PRAGDA PRAGDA is a cultural initiative that specializes in offering Latin American and Spanish films of educational interest for students focused in Latin American studies, Spanish and Portuguese language studies, ethnic studies, womens studies, history, sociology, politics, art and media studies, and international studies among others. Our collection includes films by such notable directors as Lucia Puenzo, Juan Carlos Valdivia, Fernando Trueba, Pablo Larraín, Mariana Rondón, and many others. To learn more about Pragda, visit www.pragda.com ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org