The inaugural edition of the Ecuadorian Film Festival in New York happens this June with a lineup of the latest and greatest in Ecuadorian film. A couple highlights:

Resonancia (Resonance)
The work of a luthier - an artisan who builds guitars - consists of small and delicate actions that result in a craft that is a whole lot more than its raw materials. Portraying a sensory experience of an almost hypnotic activity in the construction of a musical instrument through curving of the elements, this beautifully shot documentary explores the dimensions in which an artisan transforms -almost alchemically- pieces of wood into a fine guitar.

Este documental es sobre las pequeñas acciones que conforman el trabajo de un Luthier en la construcción de una guitarra. El resultado de estas pequeñas acciones es un milagro. Retrata una experiencia sensorial de una actividad casi hipnótica que es la construcción de un instrumento musical.

Sin otoño, sin primavera (No Autumn, No Spring)
A portrait of Guayaquil’s erratic and disenchanted middle class youth and their pursuit of happiness. The portrait of an invisible generation. A punk ballad told from the point of view of 10 youngsters with stories that interconnect, not with their destinies but with their concepts: the trip as a way of reinvention, questioning happiness and the system, evasion, moral limits, madness, decadence and love.

Sin Otoño, Sin Primavera trailer 1 www.larepublicainvisible.org @SOSPpelicula www.larepublicainvisible.blogspot.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sin-Oto%C3%B1o-Sin-Primavera/115165401845748

New York: June 17 - 21. Full lineup and details here.