San Diego Latino Film Festival

Legendary Spanish director Víctor Erice returns w/ his first movie in 30 years! Now playing at our Digital Gym Cinema, CLOSE YOUR EYES, is set in contemporary Madrid & follows an aging filmmaker who is called upon to recount his memories of working on his final and still unfinished film. In Spanish w/ English subtitles. Only $5 to park 3 hrs in our same bldg UC San Diego Park & Market. Tickets, trailer & daily showtimes - https://digitalgym.org/movies/close-your-eyes/

"You’ll want to hold Erice’s film tight, but much like the water pouring from a shoe you turn over after wading into the fleeting moments of wonder, it reminds us how the memories of life’s beautiful mundanities can all too easily slip through our fingers." - Collider

Over three decades after the release of his previous film, revered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur, and Dream of Light) returns with a “poignant cinematic swan song” (). A reflective culmination of Erice’s career in film, Close Your Eyes is a haunting meditation on memory, absence, and the enduring resonance of the moving image.

Friends. Only 1 week away. Join us for "CONNECTEDvoces Impact Premiere: A Selection of 15 Short Documentary Films centering Mental Health in San Diego" 1:00-3:00PM | Sat, Sept 21, at Digital Gym Cinema.

Produced by Emerging Youth filmmakers at Media Arts Center San Diego. Join Media Arts Center San Diego and Far South / Border North for the Impact Premiere of the CONNECTEDvoces Project featuring a curated selection of student films confronting and highlighting mental health issues currently aecting youth in a post COVID-19 San Diego. A selection of 15 short documentary films, the Impact Premiere includes personal narratives, experimental perspectives, interviews with mental health professionals, and conversations with youth from across San Diego. The Premiere will conclude with a post-screening discussion w/ youth filmmakers, MACSD teaching artists and project organizers, Amada Torruella and Seth Gadsden. RSVP here - https://digitalgym.org/movies/connectedvoces-impact-premiere/

Friends, filmmakers & cinéphiles! This is a MUST SEE. Les Blank’s, w/ Maureen Gosling, acclaimed classic BURDEN OF DREAMS, newly restored! Burden of Dreams captures legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo, in which an entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. “Blank created an enduring record of hubris, exploitation and unrelenting misadventure in the pursuit of artistic greatness.” - The Wall Street Journal . Only one night (Tues, Sept 10, 7pm) at our Digital Gym Cinema. $5 parking in our same building for 3 hrs at UC San Diego Park & Market. See it on the BIG screen & we got A/C 🙂! Tickets https://digitalgym.org/movies/dgc-video-burden-of-dreams-4k-restoration/

Friends, filmmakers & cinéphiles! This is a MUST SEE. Les Blank's, w/ Maureen Gosling, acclaimed classic BURDEN OF DREAMS, newly restored! Burden of Dreams captures legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo, in which an entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. "Blank created an enduring record of hubris, exploitation and unrelenting misadventure in the pursuit of artistic greatness." - The Wall Street Journal . Only one night (Tues, Sept 10, 7pm) at our Digital Gym Cinema. $5 parking in our same building for 3 hrs at UC San Diego Park & Market. See it on the BIG screen & we got A/C :)! Tickets - https://digitalgym.org/movies/dgc-video-burden-of-dreams-4k-restoration/

Join us today for a free screening of our graduating filmmakers. 1-4pm at Digital Gym Cinema. A/C will be on 🙂 and let’s celebrate this wonderful accomplishment by watching their final movies on the BIG screen! Funded by San Diego Central Library and City of San Diego

Join us today for a free screening of our graduating filmmakers. 1-4pm at Digital Gym Cinema. A/C will be on 🙂 and let’s celebrate this wonderful accomplishment by watching their final movies on the BIG screen! Funded by City of San Diego Library and City Heights Library.

Meet the SDLFF 2025 Selection Committee Members!
🪷🌅🌊🎥☀️☄️🌿⚡️ 👇🏾

https://sdlatinofilm.com/site_2024/meet-the-sdlff-2025-selection-committee-members/

More filmmaking classes announced! Our acclaimed Teen Producers Project continues its 24th year! Saturdays: Sept 21–Dec 21 '24., 10am-2pm at our downtown location at UC San Diego Park & Market. Scholarships avail. Register at https://mediaartscenter.org/tpp/

We’re nurturing the next generation of filmmakers. Ages 13-18. Meet new friends, learn pre production, production, post production & screen your final film on the BIG screen at our Digital Gym Cinema! Info: [email protected].

SDLFF is going to !

We’re excited to participate in this immersive and experiential arts festival with a collection of Frontera short films that had our SDLFF audiences raving during our most recent edition!

Our mini-film festival will be on screen at the Soap Factory Cinema on Sat. Sep 14th at 6:30PM! Get there early and enjoy this ALL DAY festival which will include music, art, spoken word, a mini-circus, other film screenings, fashion shows, and so much more!

Line-Up:
🎞 Govern Yourself Accordingly. Dir. María José Crespo
🎞 Javier Bátiz: The Iconic Musician of Tijuana. Dir. Alejandro Tamayo
🎞 La Paloma. Dir. Catherine Alderete

Get 20% of your ticket when you enter the code SDLFF at check out!

Ticket link in bio!

Emerging filmmakers! Get paid for training & to make movies in partnership w/
. Oct 14-Nov 23. Earn up to $7,000+ to make movies :)! Info & sign-up here - https://mediaartscenter.org/wdi/

favorite Luis Gerardo Méndez (Nosotros Los Nobles, Club de Cuervos) and Elizabeth Banks play rival facialists in IFC Films ’s SKINCARE, now playing at the Digital Gym Cinema!

“SKINCARE es una carta de amor muy poderosa a Los Ángeles” dice Luis Gerardo.

Get 🎟️s for this campy and twisted comedic thriller at https://digitalgym.org/movies/skincare/

& Drop your SKINCARE routine in the comments 🔽🔽🔽
😶‍🌫️🧖‍♀️💆‍♀️🧖🧼🧴

We’re nurturing the next generation of filmmakers. 🎥 🎬
Register at mediaartscenterorg/TPP

Thank you everyone who came out to see Sugarcane this past weekend! The The San Diego Union-Tribune did a great write-up of it last week. Please spread the word & see it on the big screen!

Sundance Film Festival winner, SUGARCANE presented by National Geographic Films, now showing at our Digital Gym Cinema. “A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.” $5 parking for 3 hrs in our same bldg ( UC San Diego Park & Market). Tickets & showtimes - https://digitalgym.org/movies/sugarcane/

Excited to share that due to popular demand the Tango comedy ADIOS ARGENTINA has been extended for one more week. See it this weekend & spread the word! “Charming film starring a superb cast” —Cine Argentina Hoy. The bandoneon player in a working class tango band is fed up with being paid in empanadas, and decides to leave the country…but then a beautiful but feisty taxi driver, a new singer, and a reluctant daughter force him to reconsider. Get tickets today at our box office or at https://digitalgym.org/movies/adios-buenos-aires/

Friends! An important and must see movie opens this week - Sundance Film Festival winner, SUGARCANE presented by National Geographic Films, screens Aug 16-22 in San Diego. "A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning." Only at our Digital Gym Cinema. $5 parking for 3 hrs in our same bldg (UC San Diego Park & Market). See it on our BIG screen! Tickets & showtimes - https://digitalgym.org/movies/sugarcane/

🪗 Germán Kral’s tango-comedy ADIÓS BUENOS AIRES is now playing at DGC.

Argentina, 2001. The bandoneon player in a working class tango band is fed up with being paid in empanadas, and decides to leave the country…but then a beautiful but feisty taxi driver, a new singer, and a reluctant daughter force him to reconsider.

“Charming film starring a superb cast” —Cine Argentina Hoy

🎟️ Get tickets today at our box office or at digitalgym.org

Adiós Buenos Aires Synopsis: Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis. The country‘s economy is stagnating and the peso...

🪗 Germán Kral’s tango-comedy ADIÓS BUENOS AIRES opens this Friday, August 9 at
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in a crisis. The country‘s economy is stagnating and the peso is plunging deeper and deeper, while the anger and distrust of the Argentinian people towards their corrupt government is growing steadily. A shoe salesman and avid bandoneon player is forced to emigrate to Germany, but then he meets a beautiful but foulmouthed taxi driver as his tango band gets a new singer. 🎟️ Get tickets at digitalgym.org

New film from Argentina coming to San Diego. Get your tickets today!

Adiós Buenos Aires Synopsis: Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis. The country‘s economy is stagnating and the peso...

LONGLEGS, the scariest movie of the summer, will be screening with SPANISH subtitles at the Digital Gym Cinema on Sunday August 4, 7PM!

Don't miss this exclusive screening presented by the San Diego Latino Film Festival!

Tickets: https://digitalgym.org/showtimes/longlegs-8-4-24-700-pm/

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LONGLEGS, la película más aterradora del verano, se proyectará con subtítulos en ESPAÑOL en el Digital Gym Cinema el domingo 4 de agosto a las 7 p.m.

¡No te pierdas esta proyección exclusiva presentada por el Festival de Cine Latino de San Diego!

Boletos: https://digitalgym.org/showtimes/longlegs-8-4-24-700-pm/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YGMHUb5RW8

Amigos, a cool & unique opportunity! Get PAID to make music & learn something new. $150 per participant! Spaces still available for FREE FILM COMPOSING workshops taught by UC San Diego Music Aug 5 - Aug 30: Option 1: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2-4 PM at Logan Heights Library or Option 2: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6-8 PM at City Heights Library, IDEA Lab. Anyone 13+ is welcome. Sign up for free here - https://tinyurl.com/mv53psrb

Amigos del cine latino! Join our long time fest. partner/familia Border X Brewing for their amazing 2024 CHICANO CON. Starts today & runs July 25-27. Meet past participants IN PERSON: Jorge Gutierrez, Lalo Alcaraz, F***y Grande; plus, live music, arte, vendors, cosplay, launch of new Latino film streaming service y más!

We got the grant! Thank you City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture for your continued support of Media Arts Center San Diego's community exhibition and education programs. This much needed "FY25 Organizational Support Program" funding will allow us to bring even more vibrancy to San Diego neighborhoods through arts and culture activities and programming. Mil gracias!

Packed house last night at Digital Gym Cinema! Thank you everyone for your support ofH.P. Mendoza’s SECRET ART OF HUMAN FLIGHT

If you missed it, the film continues this week. We guarantee this film will surprise and delight you.

Tickets here: https://digitalgym.org/movies/the-secret-art-of-human-flight/