The 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival Announces the Winners of Their Audience Choice Award and Dates for Next Year’s Festival
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…
CLFF 41: Behind the Scenes with Daniel Rodríguez Risco (Cuadrilátero)
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….
CLFF 41: Behind the Scenes with Sebastián Cordero (Behind the Mist)
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…
CLFF 41: Behind the Scenes with Mariana Wainstein (Linda)
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…
41st CLFF: Behind the Scenes with Leticia Tonos Paniagua (Aire.Just Breathe)
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…
41st CLFF: Behind the Scenes with Alexandra Latishev Salazar (Delirio)
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…
More than 50 Filmmakers To Attend the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival
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). …
Brazilian Artist Captures the Magic of Latino Filmmaking in 41st CLFF Poster
When we launched our annual poster contest for the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, we were looking for something special – an image that would capture not just the essence of Latino cinema, but the pure joy and creative spirit…
The Reel Film Club Moves Back to the Chicago Latino Film Festival’s Original Home: FACETS
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 Announces Its First-Ever Black Friday Sale
The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago (ILCC) is set to launch its first-ever Black Friday Sales Event for the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, April 3rd-14th, 2025, offering an unprecedented 40% discount on its 10-film screening passport. The Sales…