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JOSÉ MOURA SELECTIONS is proud to sponsor Ekwa Msangi’s captivating debut feature, FAREWELL AMOR, “a poignant, tripartite, intergenerational study of the immigrant experience. After 17 years, an Angolan immigrant in New York City welcomes his wife and daughter when their visas are finally approved. Upon their reunion, the family must contend with the strain that years of separation have had on their relationships. Msangi skillfully illuminates the new familial dynamic and explores all the intricate ways in which people drift apart and discover each other again. A personal look at the layered experience of immigration and assimilation in America, FAREWELL AMOR beautifully explores the nature of memories and the meaning of home.”

For more information, visit the official page at the Montclair Film Festival website.  

Morcilla (pronounced mor•see•ya) is sausage using a pig’s intestine and filled with pig’s blood that is cooked or dried and mixed with a filler (rice, beef [or pork meat], onions, cilantro, chiles, garlic) until it is thick enough to solidify when cooled. Variants of the morcilla are found in all corners of the world, using sheep, duck, or goat blood instead, varying by country. Early version of the blood sausage can be traced to cave paintings at Narbone, Bordeaux and Rheims, France. The first known written mention of morcilla was as early as 800 BC when it appeared in Homer’s classic, The Odyssey. In book twenty, Homer wrote, “As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted…”

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[Updated Noveber 5th, 2019]

We were very proud to sponsor this beautiful, yearly event organized by La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña (the Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage House) in the historic Spanish Harlem district of Manhattan (aka as “El Barrio”) where the community celebrated the food and music of the Puerto Rican mountains. Located in the Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico’s diverse cuisine will be a focus for us in pairing our featured selections from Europe.

We look forward to exploring stories of Europe and the Caribbean, a combination of cultures dating back to 1492…

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The Marqués de Riscal Vineyard Hotel is what happens when architect Frank Gehry is influenced by the wine of La Rioja. This luxury hotel is in Elciego, the town/municipality located at the southern part of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain. Gehry incorporated methods previously used in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It was built by Ferrovial.
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“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” — Nelson Mandela. The road ahead is about more milestones — bigger, faster, greater, our primordial drivers. Milestones are the metrics of life that tell us we are living, conquering, growing — not just alive. “Cuvée Esperanza” SPREZZATURA brut prosecco is how we celebrate milestones, and gatherings, before continuing on our road ahead.

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We are proud to sponsor the 2019 Montclair Film Festival. Culture and arts are divine drivers of society, from working class students, across the populace, to institutional spectacles. We have a unique perspective of growth and nurturing local talent and resources. And we are proud to lend a hand to the intrepid filmmakers of this year’s festival.

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If Bordeaux is in a class by itself when it comes to succulent French red wine, then what could we find that’s comparable in Spain, with such depth, dark fruits, and complexity? While Rioja may be the quick answer, Priorat, the only other DOC (denominación de origen calificada [denomination of qualified origin]) wine of Spain, is very much worth closer attention. 

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We begin this month in the cold, but in love. Our defiant New York City sits on a rough patch of rocks that, in winter, is exposed to things like “nor’easters”, and the “Polar Vortex”! But our love for good living continues to push us forward each day through the wilderness, so we can do the good work, come home, and dream for a better tomorrow. And for all our cold, crazy, love-filled journeys in February, we suggest bubbles!

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