March 22, 2005
Latino Film Festival Celebrates 10 Years
Events at Clark include debut U.S. screenings, actor’s visit
WORCESTER, MA- This year’s Worcester Latino Film Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary from April 5 to 10 on the Clark University Campus at Cinema 320 (Jefferson Hall) and Razzo Hall (Traina Center for the Arts). The program boasts a selection of outstanding feature films that celebrate the diversity of Latino heritage, music and storytelling. It includes recent award-winning works by Mexican, Dominican, Cuban, Argentine and U.S. Latino filmmakers.
In past years, the festival presented four or five films in a repertory cycle. To mark the tenth anniversary, this year’s program includes several films that have not yet been released commercially in the United States. This year’s showcase feature is En fin, el mar (At Last, the Sea), and a 2005 Argentine-Cuban co-production, starring Joel Nuñez. Mr. Nuñez will participate in a conversation with the audience after the screening at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 9, in Razzo Hall
The festival has grown over the years from a modest “Weekend of Puerto Rican Cinema,” held at the Worcester Art Museum, to an annual cycle of films that celebrate Latino culture in Worcester. The festival is a collaboration of Worcester’s Centro Las Américas and various community institutions and area colleges (Clark University, Assumption, Worcester State Colleges and WPI). All films are presented in Spanish with English subtitles (or in English with Spanish subtitles). A full list of screening times and locations can be found online at www.centrolasamericas.org/schedule1.htm.
For further information, contact info@centrolasamericas.org, or call the Clark University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, at 508-793-7234.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition free for eligible students.
Jane Salerno
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Clark University
(508) 793-7554
jsalerno@clarku.edu
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