Alejandro Riera

From film noir (A State of Madness, 2020) to comedies (Juanita, 2018), from straightforward dramas (Love Child, 2011) to a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (Cristo Rey, 2013), Dominican director Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s filmography as a director, writer and...

Beginning today and during the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, our communications manager and film critic Alejandro Riera will be posting a series of interviews with a select number of filmmakers whose films will screen during our eleven-day event. Through...

The 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, April 3rd-14th, will serve as host to more than 50 filmmakers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and the United States (including Chicago). ...

After more than ten years at Instituto Cervantes, the International Latino Cultural Center’s (ILCC) monthly Reel Film Club series moves to Facets, 1517 West Fullerton Avenue, the original home of the Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held on the last Tuesday...

The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago will present the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, April 3-14, 2025. For over four decades, the Festival has featured the most representative and diverse selection of films from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain,...

The Chicago Latino Film Festival is one of 40 Chicago film festivals to be featured on ChicagoScreens.org, the Chicago Alliance of Film Festivals (CAFF)’s resource to help culture-loving audiences “find film festivals.” These festivals cover a wide range of films...