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TThere has been some confusion about what we are doing here at the CLFF and how it is different from a Film Series or simple public screening. The Film Festival community is a very tight international network. Our festival director, , has worked for 11 years as a network television producer with Fox and Telemundo in Los Angeles, developing the skills and connections to make this festival possible. The Cambridge Latino Film Festival (CLFF) aims to present the latest films produced by Latinos and the latest films dealing with social issues of Latino communities in the US and Latin America. This seven-day festival will be partially sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and the Cambridge Public Library (Central Sq. branch). The festival focuses on alternative films with social content from Latin America and films dealing with Latino issues in the United States. The Cambridge Latino Film Festival will be screening 34 films beginning on Friday fourteenth 2002 promising to be one of the finest cultural events of the Greater Boston area.
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Cambridge Latino Film Festival will have two categories and
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RELEASE After receiving a tremendous response from the academic, arts and local community in its first year, the Cambridge Latino Film Festival (CLFF) is proud to announce its lineup for its second annual film festival. It will be held from October 24, 2003 through November 2, 2003 at three different venues: the Harvard Film Archive, the MIT Media Lab, and the Central Square Branch of the Cambridge Public Library. In addition to the films that will be screened at these three venues, the CLFF will also be hosting panels, question and answer sessions with directors, and receptions. The Greater Boston community will have the opportunity to discuss and experience films that have screened at film festivals throughout the world. When the CLFF was first established, Festival Director Jose Barriga and his festival coordinators sought to accomplish a number of goals. First, they wanted to screen the best Latin American films in the three following categories: feature films, short feature and documentary. Other objectives were to show films that portrayed more accurate depictions of the Latino and Latin American communities. The CLFF sought to combat stereotypes and strengthen intercultural relations between the Latino community and other ethnic and cultural groups. The CLFF wanted to also provide an outlet for Latino producers, directors, and writers to show and discuss their work in the Greater Boston area. With the help of its sponsors, the CLFF screened 34 films from over 20 countries, in addition to hosting opening and closing night receptions, and organizing a panel discussing Latino stereotypes in the media. Overall, 2,600 people attended the CLFF screenings and participated in the various activities that were organized by the CLFF staff. After the success of its first festival, the CLFF established a number of relationships so that their second festival would be even better than the first. First, the CLFF is proud to be working with the Harvard Film Archive and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and will be screening films at those wonderful facilities for the first time. Also, the CLFF will continue to screen films at the Cambridge Public Library. In addition, the CLFF staff developed strong relationships with staff members from other festivals and film series, including the Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival, the LaCinemaFe Film Festival in New York, the Havana Film Festival New York, the New York International Latino Film Festival and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. With their assistance, the CLFF contacted a large number of filmmakers and received many worthy submissions (over 110). As a result, the CLFF will be screening 54 films this year. Although the CLFF staff is currently at work organizing this year’s festival, they are also looking ahead to 2004 where they plan to add more venues to create the Boston Latino Film Festival. The 2003 Cambridge Latino Film Festival is made possible with the support of the following sponsors: The Harvard Film Archive, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fleet Bank, the Cambridge Public Library, the Boston Video/Film Foundation, Viceversa Communications, the Cambridge Community Foundation, Candela Magazine, Studio Arango, Ole Mexican Grill, and MR Imprint and Bindery. For more information,
please go to the CLFF
website or contact Festival Director Jose Barriga at 617-308-2102
or Production Coordinator Gil Cordova at 617-628-1492.
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