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The nation’s original and longest running Latino film festival, CineFestival San Antonio exhibits Chicanx, Latinx and International Latin American cinema with a focus on regional and local filmmaking, creating annual opportunities to survey the body of work produced by artists based in Texas and beyond, and fostering industry, business, and artistic opportunities for participating artists.

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The nation’s original and longest running Latino film festival returns this summer with the 45th annual edition of CineFestival San Antonio. Presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio’s annual celebration of independent Latinx and indigenous cinema will take place July 11 to 14, 2024.

March 15, 2024: Earlybird Entry Deadline
May 5, 2024: Regular Deadline
May 25, 2024: Late Entry Deadline

 

MORE ABOUT CINEFESTIVAL SAN ANTONIO

CineFestival exhibits Chicanx, Latinx and International Latin American cinema with a focus on regional and local filmmaking, creating annual opportunities to survey the body of work produced by artists based in Texas and beyond, and fostering industry, business, and artistic opportunities among an average of 100 registered filmmakers in attendance every year.

CineFestival San Antonio traditionally hosts screenings, Q&A sessions, panels, workshops, receptions, and after parties. Featured programs include the Mesquite Award nominees for Best Texas Short Film, Texas and San Antonio showcases, and a selection of US Latinx and international feature and short films. Master classes and panels are designed for established filmmakers to share artistic insight and industry knowledge with attending filmmakers.

Almost 50% of the festival events are free and open to the public. Free community events include Family Day, a Youth Film showcase including work made by artist 18 years old or younger, a matinee Senior Cinema screening for the area’s elderly film lovers, and Cine en el Barrio.

Since 2017, CineFestival San Antonio has developed a strong focus on local and regional filmmaking, prioritizing films that are closely related to Texas and San Antonio, supporting regional filmmakers who are based in neighboring states, and including works made by Latinx and indigenous filmmakers working in the US and Puerto Rico. The festival includes a limited number of international works made by filmmakers from Latin America and Spain with an emphasis on Mexican films.

For over four decades, CineFestival San Antonio has hosted dozens of independent filmmakers and many of the industry’s pioneering U.S. Latino and Mexican films, actors, and directors. Highlights from past editions include appearances by Marcela Arteaga, Gina Rodriguez, Guillermo del Toro, Edward James Olmos, Benjamin Bratt, Jesse Borrego, Esai Morales, Aurora Guerrero, Raúl Castillo, Luis Valdez, Lalo Alcaraz, Cruz Angeles, Hector Galan, Adán Medrano, and some of the fresh voices in Latino film including Fernando Frias de la Parra, Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera, Chelsea Rendon, Steve Acevedo, Gian Cassini, Marcella Ochoa, and Iliana Sosa among many others. 

 

Eugenio del Bosque Gómez is a film programmer, arts administrator, filmmaker, and photographer working both in the United States and Mexico. From 2006 to 2014, del Bosque served as executive director of the Cine Las Americas in Austin, Texas, creating theatrical exhibition opportunities for more than 1,600 independent Latino and indigenous films, supporting regional talent, and overseeing youth education programs.


For his work, he was presented with the Award of Excellence for Service from the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. In the past 20 years, he’s collaborated on feature and short films, award-winning multimedia journalism projects, and worked with institutional and corporate clients on nonprofit and commercial projects.


He currently serves as Film Programmer and Grants Manager for the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas, and is working on his first documentary feature as director.

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