The Sixth Annual New York International Latino
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The Sixth Annual New York International Latino Film Festival runs from July 26th through the 31st, celebrating Latino film and community. This year’s event features many exciting New York premieres, ten different themed shorts programs, and a constant flow of Latino features and documentaries playing at four different theaters throughout the city.
Showings are Tuesday night at Regal Cinemas Union Square, 850 Broadway between 13th and 14th Sts; and Wednesday through Saturday at the Florence Gould Hall, 55 E 59th St between Park and Madison Aves; Lighthouse International, 111 E 59th St between Park and Lexington Aves; and the Pioneer Theater, 155 E 3rd St between Avenues A and B. Single film tickets are $10, festival passes are $60, and all are available from the festival’s website, www.nylatinofilm.com.
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 7PM
Regal Cinemas, Union Square
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (Georgina Garcia Riedel) 128 min. Three generations of a Mexican-American family spend the sweltering hot season as most people do: enjoying their own personal sexual awakenings.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 9PM
Lighthouse International
Favela Rising (Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary) 78 min. A former drug-trafficker starts a movement within his Rio slum, using street rhythms and dance to fight oppressive teen drug gangs and a corrupt police force.
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 10PM
Florence Gould Hall
Cachimba (Silvio Caiozzi) 129 min. An inconsequential bank employee suddenly finds himself in possession of a collection of possibly valuable Chilean paintings and attempts to rescue the masterpieces for their homeland.
FRIDAY, JULY 29, 8PM
Florence Gould Hall
Glow Ropes: The Rise and Fall of a Bar Mitzvah Emcee (George Valencia, Edwin Figueroa) 90 min. A New Jersey Bar Mitzvah emcee is scouted and thrust into the cutthroat world of Manhattan Bar Mitzvah entertainment.
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 8PM
Florence Gould Hall
Rikers High (Victor Buhler) 90 min. This documentary explores the lives of the students and teachers at the most extreme high school in New York City at the Rikers Island prison.
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