HablArte! The ILCC's Video Podcast
Join us for our conversations with Producers, Promoters and Artists in our diverse Arts programs!

HablArte! Season 2 Episode 1 • María José Llergo
HablArte! Season 2 Episode 2 • Las Migas
HablArte! Episode 1 • Omar Torres
HablArte! Episode 2 • R.Chicharrón
HablArte! Episode 3 • Mateo Mulcahy
HablArte! Episode 4 • JL Pacheco
HablArte! Episode 5 • Guillermo Fernández
HablArte! Episode 6 • Nano Stern
HablArte! Episode 7 • Paulo Padilha
HablArte! Episode 8 • Sol y Canto
HablArte! Episode 9 • MONO BLANCO
Latest Blog Posts
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The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago (ILCC) extends our deepest condolences to the people of Spain in the wake of the meteorological event locally known as a DANA (high-altitude isolated depression) devastating impact. Our hearts ache for the families...
- James Klein
- November 4, 2024
- 2 Min Read
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,...
- Alejandro Riera
- September 13, 2024
- 3 Min Read
Submissions are now open for the 41st edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, which will take place April 3-14, 2025. The oldest Latino film festival in the United States, the Chicago Latino Film Festival Film showcases and introduces audiences...
- Alejandro Riera
- September 4, 2024
- 2 Min Read
The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago announces the winners and runner-ups of the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival’s Audience Choice Awards. The Audience Choice Award for Best Fiction Feature went to Dear Gentlemen, actor and novelist Patricia Castañeda’s directorial...
- Alejandro Riera
- April 22, 2025
- 8 Min Read
Cuadrilátero (Quadrilateral), Daniel Rodríguez Risco’s sixth feature film, is perhaps the most unique, sui generis, out there film of this year’s Festival. It’s darkly humorous, visually inventive, and even perturbing. It’s about power and control and survival of the fittest....
- Alejandro Riera
- April 10, 2025
- 7 Min Read
With a long-running Festival like ours, it is inevitable that you will run into some familiar faces and names. Many Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese and U.S. Latino filmmakers have trusted their first, second and third films with us with the...
- Alejandro Riera
- April 9, 2025
- 6 Min Read
The first time we see Linda, the title character of Mariana Wainstein’s feature film debut, her back is towards the camera; we only see her earpods and the croissant she is eating in her right hand. The camera cuts to...
- Alejandro Riera
- April 3, 2025
- 7 Min Read
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...
- Alejandro Riera
- April 1, 2025
- 7 Min Read
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...
- Alejandro Riera
- March 27, 2025
- 6 Min Read