The ’24-25 season of the MNFF Selects Monthly Screening Series kicks off at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Thursday, October 10 with a 7pm screening of Carlos, the new documentary feature from director Rudy Valdez about the towering rock and roll guitar icon Carlos Santana. At the age of 5, in his native Mexico, Carlos learned to play the violin. At 8, he developed a lifelong love for the guitar. At 14, he honed those guitar virtuoso skills and his performance style working as a street musician, starting his own band not long after, while still a teenager. And at 22 — just before his first album was released to acclaim — Carlos Santana became one of the major discoveries of Woodstock, anchoring the famous festival’s second afternoon on August 16, 1969.
A music industry legend for 50 years and a 10-time Grammy-winning global sensation, as well as a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor and a Billboard Century award, Santana continues to be one of the music world’s premier artists, blending jazz, blues and the Mariachi sound with a rock n’ roll spirituality and a sense of primal connection to our deepest emotions. The electric documentary Carlos incorporates new interviews with Santana and his family alongside extraordinary, never-before-seen archival footage — including home video recordings Santana himself made, excellent concert footage and behind-the-scenes moments — as two-time Emmy-winning director Valdez (The Sentence; Through Our Eyes; We Are: The Brooklyn Saints) creates an intimate, rich film about a man whose sound casts a spell on fans who love — as one of Santana’s famous titles says— “how his rhythm goes.”
MNFF Selects is proud to present the Vermont premiere of Carlos.
CREDITS
Directed by: Rudy Valdez
FILM INFORMATION
Genre: Documentary
Length: 87 minutes
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects Series
Thursday, October 10, 2024
7pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT