Guanabee To Go: Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival
If you’re going to be in L.A. during September 12-19th, check out the International Latino Film Festival, where 132 films from Latino directors will be played on the big screen at several city theaters. The buzz this year is focused on Paraíso Travel, a film about immigration by Colombian director Simon Brand. Paraíso follows its romantic protagonist, Marlon, from Colombia to New York City and from innocence to a harsh awakening to what it means to live as an illegal immigrant in America. Not to mention what it means to fall in love with a girl who is batshit crazy…
Other expected hits are Alondra Smiles (about a quinceañera) and the tango themed Café de los Maestros.
Festival Details:
The 12th annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, Sept 12 to Sept. 19
Locations:the Egyptian Theatre, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and Chinese 6 Mann Cinemas on Hollywood Boulevard.
For information, call (323) 469-9066 or go to www.latinofilm.org.
[Festival Site]
Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival to begin Sept. 12 [LA Times]
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- Managing Editor
Daniel Mauser
- Editor
Cindy Casares
- Associate Editor
Alex Alvarez
- Contributing Editors
Gabriel Caro - Camilla Rowan
- Video Editor
Marcelo Cunning
I’m way over Quincenera films that almost always portray teenage Latinas as severely impoverished, innocent to a fault, not to bright, and always lacking fashion sense! That was most definitely not my friends or me at fifteen.
I am DONE with films depicting Latino immigrants as benevolent beings who are victimized or totally backwards and/or evil. I don’t even care if it is a good film at this point. There is just so much in contemporary film binding Latinos to these forms of representation and I am not interested.
Seriously. If early African-American cinema was rooted in similar mainstream limited views about the capacity and the perceived experience of the black community, how come today African-American cinema is just far more diverse in terms of themes and actors, directors, stories, etc., than Latino-American cinema?
Posted by Callejera | September 10, 2008
I’m so there too…can’t wait to see Diego Luna on the red carpet.
Posted by iLatino | September 11, 2008