VivirLatino

Film festivals usually tend to present cutting edge films that go against the standard multiplex offerings. The New York International Film Festival, for 12 years has been pushing short and long form films featuring Latino directors, producers, scripts, actors and issues that push up against the often stereotypical presentation of our communities. This year promises to be no different.

The NYILFF is capitalizing on their reputation as cutting edge while simultaneously taking a critical look at Hollywood’s blockbuster mentality and clichés and contrasting it against the “film” mentality – in particular, the Latino film mentality, which focuses on real, complex issues rather than simple entertainment. Take for example their ad campaign that focuses on the roles that Latinos traditionally play in mainstream Hollywood films.

We will be reviewing and featuring some of the films from the New York Latino Film Festival so stay tuned for that. In the meantime if you want to check out some of the festival for yourself. You can check out the schedule and plan your festival experience here.

You can purchase tickets here.

Ticket & badge info can be found here.

If you want to keep it old school and prefer to buy your tickets in person, box office info is here.