MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University will serve as a satellite site for the 24 ^th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival by screening El Sueno del Paraiso on Monday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

El Sueno del Paraiso (The Dream of Paradise) is directed by Colombian filmmaker Carlos Palau. It centers on Japanese immigrants in Colombia before and during World War II. Isabel Sarmiento, the daughter of a landholder in Colombia’s Yauca Valley, engineers the immigration of Japanese families to her family’s hacienda. This glimpse of paradise for the hardworking immigrants is interrupted by the war, as Germans, Japanese and Italians are detained and taken to residential camps. As a result, Isabel and the love of her life, Yuzo, are forced to endure hardship and sorrow.

The film, presented in Spanish with English subtitles, will be preceded by a champagne reception at 7:00 p.m. and followed by a discussion. General admission tickets are $10. For more information, please call (708) 524-6678.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “great school at a great price” for the tenth consecutive year.