Join us for a powerful screening of Song Without a Name (2019), in Spanish with English subtitles) Following a conversation with Peruvian film director Melina León on 9/13 @ SAC161 @5:30pm - Series Immigrant Voices
Please mark your calendars, join us, pass the word, and invite your students, staff, friends and family to our Cultural Event!
The DePaul Women's and Gender Studies
in conjunction with The Peruvian Arts Society, cordially invites you to attend our Cultural Program on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at DePaul University Schmidt Academic Center Room 161 at the Lincoln Park Campus, 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue (between W. Belden and Fullerton). Free and open to the public.
We will be featuring a film screening of the acclaimed film Canción sin nombre - Song Without A Name (2019), in Spanish with English subtitles) following a conversation with Peruvian film director Melina Leon-NUNA CINE
Program:
- 5:30 pm Reception
- 5:45 pm Welcome and Presentation by Professor Rocío Ferreira (DePaul University)
- 6:00 pm Film Screening: Song Without a Name (2019), directed and produced by Melina León (Peru)
- 7:45 pm Q&A with filmmaker Melina León
Melina Leon is a Peruvian director whose film debut, Canción sin Nombre (Song without a Name), premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight 2019, making her the first Peruvian female filmmaker to be invited to the festival. The film was nominated for Best Ibero-American Feature at the 2022 Goya Awards and was Peru's Oscar entry for Best International Feature.
Song without a Name has been selected for over 100 international film festivals, winning several awards, including Best Director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival, and the Cinevision Award for Best Emerging Director at the Munich Film Festival. Set in Peru in 1988, the film is inspired by a true account of child trafficking originally reported by Ismael Leon, her father.
An MFA film graduate of Columbia University, her short film El Paraíso de Lili (Lili's Paradise), also set in Peru in 1988, made its international debut at the 47th New York Film Festival.
Melina's work has been supported by the Columbia Institute for ideas and Imagination, the Jerome Foundation, Ibermedia, and the Ministry of Culture of Peru. Her second feature film, the documentary, Lejos del Sol (Far from the Sun), will be shot in LA in 2025.
