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NewFilmmakers LA Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Film Festival w/ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

September, 2021

Date: September 17th - 18th, 2021

You are invited to join NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for a virtual edition of the annual InFocus: Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Festival on September 17th - 18th. The program line up consists of three short film programs and a presentation of the feature documentary A La Calle, which was recently acquired by WarnerMedia 150 and will release on HBO Max in September 2021. The Festival is co-presented by Mount Saint Mary’s University Film, Television & Photography program and includes screenings, filmmaker Q&A sessions and industry panels.

The program offers the unique opportunity to experience exceptional independent films by emerging talent, with filmmakers and stories from the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Argentina, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Spain and the Cuban diaspora. The festival will kick off with four panels beginning in the afternoon on Friday, September 17th, including conversations with Gloria Calderón Kellett, showrunner of the sitcom One Day at a Time, as well as Cristina Garza, Senior Vice President of Development and Production at Endeavor Content.

The weekend’s film programming begins Friday evening with the Los Angeles premiere of award-winning documentary A La Calle, directed by Maxx Caicedo and Nelson G. Navarrete. This vivid multi-perspective on Venezuela’s recent political history clandestinely shot over three years both delves into the larger political factors involved, as well as the ordinary Venezuelan citizens’ grassroots struggle for freedom.

Saturday’s film programming kicks off with Shorts Program I - A Day at Work, a selection of films that explore work and labor in a meaningful way, as a source of identity, survival, pride and mastery. Following is Shorts Program II - Generational Echoes, a collection of stories centering the relationships between generations and the effects that they have on one another on both a personal and societal level.

The evening concludes with Shorts Program III - In Search of Self and Place, a compilation of narratives that revolve around the pursuit of a sense of personal strength, both through internally finding and asserting oneself and through determining one's place in relationship with others.

The full festival schedule will be as follows:

9/17: 1pm - 2pm PT | Conversation with Gloria Calderón Kellett on Television Showrunning

9/17: 3pm - 4:30pm PT | Conversation with Christina Garza at Endeavor Content on Developing, Financing and Producing Scripted Film & Television Projects

9/17: 5pm - 6:30pm PT | Conversation with Bruno Santamaría on Documentary Filmmaking

9/17: 6pm - 8pm PT | Screening of A La Calle (all films can be viewed anytime on 9/17 or 9/18 - films do not need to be viewed at the listed times)

9/17: 7pm - 8:30pm PT | Conversation with Emily Cohen Ibañez on Documentary Filmmaking

9/17: 8:30pm - 9:30pm PT | Q&A with A La Calle Filmmakers

9/18: 12:30pm - 1:45pm PT | Screening of Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Shorts I

9/18: 2pm - 3pm PT | Q&A with Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Shorts I Filmmakers

9/18: 3:15pm - 4:45pm PT | Screening of Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Shorts II

9/18: 5pm - 6pm PT | Q&A with Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Shorts II Filmmakers

9/18: 6:15pm - 7:45pm PT | Screening of Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Shorts III