[Music] it is a 10day celebration of Latino Cinema arts and culture the 31st Latino film festival San Diego Latino Film Festival opens Thursday joining me for more on what you can see are Andy Gonzalez he's a spokesperson in the Arte Latino coordinator and Nicole Valencia who is director of the film farewell thank you for being with us today appreciate your time thank you very much and you want to get right into it for people who are thinking about going don't know much about it what's going on
with the Festival this year where can people see 130 films the festival is being held at the Mission Valley Mall AMC but it's also at the digital gym downtown where there's a 58 seat theater and we'll be showing a couple movies there every day most of it's going to be at the Mission Valley Mall though and we have of again 140 films we have M live music all the weekends we have live art we'll have uh just all are in four different locations throughout San Diego and so we'll be doing live art real
ly cool um award-winning artist we have um again music we have a Gala closing Gala we have an our opening is going to be a brand new film about Freda documentary okay the yeah the Freda um and the do um the director will be there do a Q&A afterwards we will have Book of Life the director writer of Book of Life and that is Jorge guz he will do a Q&A also that's amazing amazing film we'll wrap it up with chich marine and he's going to be showing Bor in East LA and he'll be doing a Q&A also so it r
eally is a celebration it's not just a static sit watch something move on like you're going to go there and have some fun a lot going on a lot going on all right uh Nicole you're you're a filmmaker what Nicole Valencia what is it like um to to be able to put your movie in front of people in this kind of setting yeah I mean honestly this Festival is a dream come true for a film just because to me it kind of feels like uh the Latin American South by Southwest just cuz it's so Dynamic like there's
food there's music there's art and then there's films it's just really really awesome to be a part of I I believe we have a little clip from your movie farewell could you just give us a little synopsis what what's your movie about yeah yeah totally so it's a short film it's about a troubled actress who finds she stumbles upon this mysterious photo exhibition of which she is the main subject so it has it actually has um an uh a photo element to it um I'm also a photographer so these kind of galle
ry Stills that you see that are the mysterious photo exhibition will also be showing them at the AR Latino um exhibition and yeah it's just I don't want to give away the plot okay no yeah we don't want to give away too much but that's a cool crossover for a couple of mediums that you do and and as a as a young latina like does can this be something that helps lift your career to another level oh yeah absolutely I mean just being able to Showcase my film in an environment like like this and I kno
w that uh so I this my film will show as part of the frona filmmakers okay so it's basically um filmmakers who are from the border region or who talk about border stories which is like so relevant to San Diego um and that the shorts block you know always sells out so I'm very excited very cool best of luck hope you get great reception with that and Andy you're saying many things going on one of them you're the the art director for this so a lot of Fine Art I guess is what we'd be calling it righ
t oh yeah again we have four off Galleries and Melody deos is is my partner in crime with the art so we are going to have art from uh Baja art from colia art from Peru so we got art from all over Latin America you have a you have a painting that you want I know we have one behind me and what okay that's that is pretty cool this is very cool actually the artist her name is inosente okay I'll give you a quick rundown 15 years ago she was 15 years old undocumented and homeless in San Diego uh a fil
mmaker um couple followed her around for a year documented her and her story it won an Academy Award for best documentary short and this is called um self-portrait it looks pretty much exactly like inocente so and and many other artists are going to be featured we have a lot of events big a big party at the end of it I know that we're going to put up information for people to get to it we're out of time unfortunately could talk all day about this it's the San Diego Latino Film Festival the 31st
it starts Thursday runs 10 days big party at the end lots of celebrations in between get all the information at SD Latino film festival.com participate thank you guys for taking time I hope it's a big success for both of you thank you very much much for having us appreciate it Heather
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