Photo courtesy of City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
The inaugural and free Dallas Latino Film Festival will take place next week, Friday, Sept. 4 through Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Latino Cultural Center.
The festival will include screenings and resources for those wanting to learn more about filmmaking, like Q&As, panels, workshops, presentations and networking opportunities. The festival took short film submissions of all genres through Aug. 5 and encouraged a diverse array of creatives to enter.
“Whether you’re a filmmaker, industry professional, film lover or simply looking for a new way to connect with Latino stories, the Dallas Latino Film Festival offers a space to experience, celebrate and support the next generation of Latino cinema,” reads the Eventbrite page for the festival.
The schedule, according to Eventbrite, is as follows:
Friday:
- 6 p.m. — Dallas Latino Film Festival opening
- 6:15 p.m. — DLFF selection: family film block
- 7:15 p.m. — Dawged films block
- 8:15 p.m. — DLFF selection: documentary block
- 8:15 p.m. — Pegasus Media Project programming
- 9:45 p.m. — DAART Club (Dallas Asian American Art Collective) programming
Saturday:
- 12:30 p.m. — welcome and festival kickoff
- 1 p.m. — Prism Movement / Austin Flores Conference / Pegasus Media block
- 2:15 p.m. — Denton Black Film Festival / Blaze Unlimited / Oba Workshop
- 3:30 p.m. — DLFF Selection: art house film block / Oba Productions screenwriting workshop
- 4:30 p.m. — KERA Arts Docs block / Ceci Ceci Performance
- 6:15 p.m. — DLFF selection: awards and finalists screening
- 7:30 p.m. — festival awards
- 8:00 p.m. — closing mixer
You can get your tickets for free here.
