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Wednesday, October 1 9, 201 1 35 RK Hail, Colombia music DAILY NEWSNYDailyNews.com NEW YD On Saturday, the festival kicks off with a family day, at Flushing Town Hall in Queens (137-35 Northern $10 adults and $5 kids, 1 to 5 p.m.), that will have WHEN JULIA S0L0M0N0FF was a young girl, she heard her gynecologist mother talking about a patient she was treating who had had a sex change. "And that story stayed with me, and I wanted to know more about him," says the 43-year-old Argentine native and current New York resident. "I also had this weird juxtaposition with this case and a boy I really liked in the place we used to go in the summer. He was very blond, very beautiful, androgynous and mysterious, and I think, in my imagination, I blended both stories." The result is "The Last Summer of La Boyita" (above Solomonoff's elegiac and evocative second feature film. It will be shown with "Sisters," her first feature, and two shorts next Wednesday at "An Evening With Julia Solo-monoff" at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

"Boyita," set on an Argentine ranch during one lazy summer, tells the story of a young girl BY JOSE MANUEL SIMIAN en years ago, most Latin music aficionados could barely name cumbia and vallenato among Colombian musical genres. But the rhythms of Colombia's Caribbean coast have inspired successful pop projects such as Bomba Stereo and the electronic cumbia craze, and now it's increasingly common to see listings for concerts where bullerengue, porro or champeta will be played part of a long list of genres. All of a sudden, Colombia appears to hide a musical treasure that some have compared to Brazil's, a likeness that singer and composer Pablo Mayor welcomes, "especially because there are many people focused on doing research and passing on this music." Mayor's pride is understandable: He has played a part in the phenomenon. He founded the Encounter of Colombian Musicians in New York, a mandatory date for Colombian music fans that this weekend marks its eighth year. food, dance and performers including Grupo Chonta, Grupo Rebolu and Martin Vejarano.

On Sunday, an eight-hour gala at Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker adults and $15 kids, 5 p.m.) features Ed-mar Castaneda, Lucfa Pulido, the Gregorio Uribe Big Band and Mayor's own band, Folklore Urbano. "It's all been a process of learning how to represent ourselves," says Mayor. "We are aware of the ignorance toward Colombian music even among Colombians and we're just learning to represent ourselves." imsimiangmail.com who befriends the son of a ranch hand, and finds that sexually, he is not what he seems. "What took me the most time in preparing the film was not the research, but staying in the girl's perspective," says Solomonoff, "which allowed me to question certain things, and to let certain things go unanswered. "It's not a terrible tragedy to be different.

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