CineFestival

Thank you to all who attended and supported Latinx filmmakers in and around Texas! Your voice, the art of storytelling and your creativity is what calls us to do what we do. Congratulations to our winners of the 2024 Mesquite Award for Best Texas Short Film in Fiction and Documentary Categories.

The awards in their respective categories include:

2024 Mesquite Award for Best Documentary Short Film
LOS MOSQUITOS
Directed by Nicole Chi

2024 Mesquite Award for Best Documentary Short Film
FLOODPLAIN
Directed by Samuel Diaz Fernandez

2024 Honorable Mention for Best Fiction Short Film
NOS VEMOS DESPUES
Directed by Camille Morales-Zayas

2024 Honorable Mention for Best Documentary Short Film
THOSE NEXT TO US
Directed by Bernhard Hetzenauer

For a full list, click here:
https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/mesquite_awards_45cfsa

Support our local film festivals including the SAFILM - San Antonio Film Festival taking place on July 30-Aug. 4, celebrating 30 years!

And stay tuned for more information on next year’s CineFestival!

Thank you to Arts & Culture, City of San Antonio for your support!

Join us at Cinefestival!

CineFestival Celebrates with A Little Family Drama

Director: Nadia Zoe
Runtime: 87 minutes
Showtime: Sun, Jul 14th, 8:00 PM
Location: Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio Park North

A Mexican American family, whose lives revolve around their legendary restaurant, prepares for their annual family reunion dinner oblivious to the fact that a shattered taco truck dream is about to change everything. (MPA Rating PG-13).

https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/films/a-little-family-drama-6666027172362b005e64df57

$45 Festival passes are available!

Gracias, Kiko Martinez of San Antonio Current for featuring an article about our student filmmakers and this weekend's festivities beginning today at 2 p.m. at Little Carver Civic Center.

San Antonio's CineFestival, the nation's longest-running Latino film festival, starts Thursday Screenings will run through Sunday at Alamo Drafthouse Park North and the Little Carver Civic Center.

Countdown to CineFestival - Ayahuasca Now!

Director: Carlos Bruno Cejas
Runtime: 90 minutes
Showtime: Sun, Jul 14th, 7:00 PM
Location: Little Carver Civic Center

After many years of life scarred by PTSD, 5 men and 2 women veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, travel to the heart of the Peruvian Amazon to participate in shamanic ceremonies and heal their traumas. For them, PTSD has become an invisible wound that traditional medicine has not been able to heal. Frustrated with a society that does not understand them, and unable to find answers with conventional treatment methods, they decide to embark on a journey of transformation that will change their lives forever. In a last act of faith, these veterans decide to travel to the Amazon jungle in search of a much-needed cure. They must relive their own stories and fight their own demons. The jungle will become the battlefield; a group of shamans will become their allies; ancient ceremonies will become the weapons.

https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/films/ayahuasca-now-666e7795685a8600b3a61d34

$45 Festival passes are available!

Ayahuasca Now After many years of life scarred by PTSD, 5 men and 2 women veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, travel to the heart of the Peruvian Amazon to participate in shamanic ceremonies and heal their traumas.

Thank you to The San Antonio Observer News for featuring news of our festival and for including this ad in today's issue! We appreciate your partnership. Support local filmmakers by attending one of our films at either Little Carver Civic Center or Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio Park North.

To learn more about our Family Day at the Little Carver Civic Center click here.

https://saobserver.com/the-guadalupe-cultural-arts-center-announces-the-45th-cinefestival-san-antonio/

Countdown to CineFestival with The Strike!

Director: JoeBill Muñoz, Lucas Guilkey
Runtime: 85 minutes
Showtime: Sat, Jul 13th, 4:30 PM
Location: Little Carver Civic Center

The Strike is a feature documentary that tells the story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement, and against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history.

https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/films/the-strike-6666027172362b005e64df5d

$45 Festival passes are available!

Gracias, Karly at San Antonio Report for taking the time to speak with Eugenio del Bosque about CineFestival! Our event is happening this weekend! Take advantage of festival passes for only $45.

Summer film festivals bring the world to San Antonio

CineFestival Countdown...and the Earth Did Not Swallow Him / ...y no se lo tragó la tierra

Director: Severo Perez
Runtime: 99 minutes
Showtime: Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Location: Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio Park North

$45 Festival passes are available!

The film is an adaptation of the prize-winning novel … y no se lo trago la tierra by Tomas Rivera. Set in 1952, seen through the eyes of Marcos, a twelve-year-old boy, the story follows a family’s migrant journey through a year in their lives. Marcos is the second son of a migrant farm worker family; his brother is missing in action in the Korean war. The family travels to Minnesota, following the crops. The housing is awful, TB goes untreated, water and shelter are not a given. For a few terrible weeks, Marcos’ parents leave him in the care of a couple who turn out not what they appear to be. He finds solace in a graveyard where his recollections of the poignant, sometimes funny and terrifying experiences become a magical voyage of self-discovery.

https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/films/and-the-earth-did-not-swallow-him-y-no-se-lo-trag%C3%B3-la-tierra-66661bb270bf220026facdb5

...and the Earth Did Not Swallow Him / ...y no se lo tragó la tierra Set in 1952, and seen through the eyes of Marcos, a twelve- year-old boy, the story follows a family’s migrant journey through a year in their lives.

Baile to CineFestival with Kumbia Net: Un Estilo Bien Diferente!

Director: Alvaro Parra
Runtime: 56 minutes
Showtime: Fri, Jul 12th, 9:00 PM
Location: Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio Park North

This film travels between Mexico and the U.S. to hear the stories behind the creation of the kumbia obscura genre told by the architects of the sound: Turbo Sonidero, El Cifickzer, Satanico Dr. Truza, and Amantes Del Futuro, to name a few. The roots of Kumbia Net are on full display, the influence of Mexican Sound System culture, and the sonic timbres of electronic music.

Kumbia Net: Un Estilo Bien Diferente Kumbia Net: Un Estilo Bien Diferente is the story behind one of the most forward thinking collectives in underground Latinx dance music today.

Countdown to CineFestival, we’re just one week away!

God Save Texas – La Frontera
Director: Iliana Sosa
Runtime: 56 minutes
Showtime: Fri, Jul 12th, 7:30 PM
Location: Little Carver Civic Center

In her poetic exploration of El Paso, Texas, Mexican American filmmaker Iliana Sosa unveils a city woven with vibrant Mexican heritage, its essence textured by the coexistence and division along the border shared with Juárez, Mexico.

Festival passes are on sale for $45!

https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/films/god-save-texas-la-frontera-6666027172362b005e64df58

As Sosa traces the fluctuating nature of America’s relationship to migrants from south of the border, she invokes the concept of Nepantla, a Nahuatl word for a state of “in-between-ness”, suggesting a frontier land with blurred edges where first-generation immigrant children straddle two cultures, navigating a complex sense of identity and belonging.

Where once immigrants were brought in as legal guest workers, now border policies and Covid regulations restrict the flow of traffic, impacting the lives of many families who live on opposite sides of the divide; recent gentrification further risks obliterating historic Mexican neighborhoods and lifestyles. In GOD SAVE TEXAS: LA FRONTERA, Sosa posits that a shared culture and a fluidity between the countries has always enriched El Paso, giving rise to a humanity and unique hybridity that allowed the city to come together and heal in the wake of the 2019 Walmart tragedy.

God Save Texas – La Frontera Mexican-American filmmaker Iliana Sosa explores how Nepantla, a Nahuatl word for the concept of “in- between-ness”, characterizes her relationship to both her Mexican heritage and her hometown of El Paso, Texas, and how that unique hybridity allowed the city to come together and heal in the wake...

Gracias, Texas Public Radio Norma Martinez of Fronteras for taking the time to speak with CineFestival’s Eugenio del Bosque and local filmmakers — El Paso native and director, Iliana Sosa of La Frontera and Eagle Pass native and director Robie Flores of The In Between.

Festival passes are available for only $45!

Fronteras: CineFestival enters its 45th year of highlighting the Latino experience on the big screen A preview of CineFestival, the original and longest running Latino film festival in the U.S., taking place July 11-14 in San Antonio.

Countdown to CineFestival!

M20: Matamoros Ejido 20

Director: Leonor Maldonado García
Runtime: 87 minutes
Showtime: Fri, Jul 12th, 7:00 PM
Location: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Park North

Living in between the possibilities that the cartel, the sweatshops, and the border allow a group of men from the slums of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, to create a dance that beats the ground, contradicts and breaks stereotypes of their context, and what is expected of their lives.

Festival passes are on sale!

M20: Matamoros Ejido 20 Between the party and the sacred, these men shape their identities and their ways of relating to each other. | This short documentary follows a young artist as he strives to give form to both his personal story and the still-present legacy of colonialism.

Countdown to CineFestival with 🫔!

Tamale Season
Director: Isaac Rodriguez
Producer: Cynthia Bergen
Runtime: 71 minutes
Showtime: Thu, Jul 11th, 9:00 PM
Location: Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio Park North

A once thriving family-owned tamale shop struggles to survive when a restaurant tycoon opens a health food tamale shop down the street and threatens their existence.

Support local filmmakers & purchase your festival pass!

Tamale Season Together, a family-owned tamale shop must rediscover their family's legacy and save their business.

CineFestival Countdown!

NEW: ART is Culture, CULTURE is Art

US Showcase:
Director: Nathaniel Fuentes
Runtime: 60 minutes
Showtime: Thu, Jul 11th, 7:00 PM
Location: Little Carver Civic Center

As indigenous fashion continues to demand the attention of the world stage Lloyd “Kiva” News’s influences and contributions in contemporary Native American art, fashion, and entrepreneurship have impacted generations in the United States and Canada. The city of Scottsdale, Arizona showcases his entrepreneurship which employed many indigenous people, changed the local economy from a small ranch town into an art hub through forward thinking, a taste for fashion and art that transformed into Lloyd’s lifelong passion in education and indigenous education reform leading to the establishment of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "One man changes the way a small ranch town fits into the world, by developing a 'New' way art is experienced through color and fashion."

https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/films/new-art-is-culture-culture-is-art-666c77d7450cf6002c67fd1f

NEW: ART is Culture, CULTURE is Art As indigenous fashion continues to demand the attention of the world stage Lloyd “Kiva” New’s influences and contributions in contemporary Native American art, fashion, and entrepreneurship have impacted generations in the United States and Canada. T

Countdown to CineFestival!

Suena La Educacion: The Story of Belle Ortiz
Vistas De San Antonio film

Director: Gabriel Redondo
Runtime: 60 minutes
Showtime: Thu, Jul 11th, 7:00 PM
Location: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Park North

The documentary will feature her relentless drive and passion to make mariachi music accepted, taught in public schools in San Antonio, across the country, and how those efforts transformed both the genre and so many people’s lives.

Festival passes are available now!

https://45cinefestival.eventive.org/films/suena-la-educacion-the-story-of-belle-ortiz-66634055a1579c0248ea481e?mc_cid=c5fd1e92db&mc_eid=UNIQID

Suena La Educacion: The Story of Belle Ortiz Suena La Educacion highlights Belle Ortiz’s impact on Mariachi Music Education

Come mingle, caffeinate and network with other local film industry professionals in celebration of CineFestival San Antonio on Friday July 12 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM at the Carver Community Cultural Center. No RSVP needed to attend.

Event is free and open to all - CineFestival passes not needed to attend this Coffee Talk. But after you see the festival schedule, you will want to get your passes!



https://guadalupeculturalarts.org/cine-festival/

Gracias! San Antonio Current for talking with our festival director Eugenio del Bosque about this year’s festival! Tickets for Little Carver Civic Center will be available next week. Festival passes are still available for only $45 to see films at Little Carver Civic Center and Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio.

Making Connections: Eugenio del Bosque leads San Antonio’s CineFestival into 45th year Under del Bosque's watch, CineFestival, the nation's oldest Latino film festival, has a tighter focus on regional and local filmmaking.

Calling all movie-lovers! Join us for an unforgettable weekend of independent Latinx and indigenous cinema at the 45th CineFestival San Antonio from July 11-14. 🎬🎉

This year's CineFestival will feature 75 screenings at two different locations - Alamo Drafthouse Park North and Little Carver Civic Center. We have an incredible program planned for our attendees, including 9 feature films and 32 films created by local and regional filmmakers.

All access festival passes and individual tickets are available at GuadalupeCulturalArts.org/Cine-Festival.

Gracias Glasstire for your support with sharing news of our festival! Tickets are available now for Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio, or take advantage of our festival passes for only $45.

Dates and Locations Announced for the 45th CineFestival | Glasstire The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center has released details of its 45th CineFestival, a Latinx film festival, which runs from July 11 - 14, 2024.

Gracias to La Prensa Texas for featuring news of our festival!

We are showing approximately 75 screenings, 9 feature films and 32 films made in or related to Texas.

https://laprensatexas.com/the-guadalupe-cultural-arts-center-announces-the-45th-cinefestival-san-antonio/

For more information on ticket 🎟️ or the schedule, visit https://guadalupeculturalarts.org/cine-festival/.

THE GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES THE 45th CINEFESTIVAL SAN ANTONIO - La Prensa Texas Facebook Twitter Google+ Gmail Print Friendly Like 0 San Antonio’s original Latinx film festival returns on Thursday, July 11 through Sunday, July 14, 2024, at two screening locations — the Little Carver Civic Center at the Carver Community Cultural Center, 226 N. Hackberry, and Alamo Drafthouse...

Before heading out for the weekend, make plans to purchase your festival passes to CineFestival! View our guide for films happening at Little Carver Civic Center and Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio Park North.

Thanks to ArtScene SA for the recent write up!

The 45th Annual CineFestival Starts Thursday, July 11 - ArtScene SA 75 films from Texas and around the world are featured in this year's festival.

Thank you to CultureMap San Antonio for covering CineFestival! Our Festival Guide is available now along with individual tickets for sale at Alamo Drafthouse San Antonio when you click on "Order Tickets."

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center presents CineFestival San Antonio’s original Latinx film festival, CineFestival, will take place at two screening locations - the Little Carver Civic Center at the Carver Community Cultural Center and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Park North.

Thanks to San Antonio Current for featuring us on your latest issue, see page 23: https://issuu.com/euclidmediagroup/docs/24-12?ff&pageLayout=singlePage

Get your festival passes for only $45 and check out our film guide to this year's films!

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Will Blood In, Blood Out finally make it into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress?

Anyone who thinks that the groundbreaking 1993 film and other Latino-driven movies such as Mi Vida Loca or Like Water for Chocolate should be included in the nation’s premier cultural collection has until Aug. 3 to send their nominations.

CineFestival programmer Eugenio del Bosque said he would start by nominating American Me and Blood In, Blood Out, which was the centerpiece of this year’s festival on the occasion of the film’s 30-year anniversary.

Here's how to nominate Latino films for the National Film Registry

Thank you to San Antonio Report!!! We appreciate your support.

44th CineFestival showcases 'authentic Latino stories'

And that’s a wrap! Thank you to all who attended and supported this year’s amazing 🎥. Feel free to tag us with your photos and we will share.