Sonic Watermelons

Film from the Latino Diaspora And Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons *** Original Episode Title: From Consumer to Producer: The Providence Latin American Film Festival Visits Sonic Watermelons* *** Original Episode Date: August 23, 2016 *** Name of Guest: Jose Ramirez and Ron Crosson Providence Latin American Film Festival *** Original Episode Summary: The world is a big place with big ideas and lots and lots of music. That is the tagline of Sonic Watermelons, but remove the word music and replace it with movies, and we might be talking about the Providence Latin American Film Festival (PLAFF), coming up in September. Today on Sonic Watermelons, we talk more about PLAFF with Programming Coordinator and Treasurer Ron Crosson and Sonic Watermelons' own Jose Ramirez, who is serving in his first year as Co-Director of the festival. What does the process look like to move from attending and consuming the culture and media at a film festival to curating, selecting and arranging the pieces of