SAY OLÉ! TO CINEGAY by chris carpenter FILM HIGHLIGHTS:
he San Diego Latino Film Festival returnsThursday, March 7 through Sunday, March 17 with 177 features, documentaries and short films from around the world. Presented by the Media Arts Center, all festival screenings will take place at the Digiplex Mission Valley Cinemas.
Now in its 20th year, the fest is one of the largest in the world devoted
exclusively to representations of Latino life on film. Movies to be shown this year hail from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Spain, Peru, Guatemala and the U.S., among other nations. In honor of the fest’s platinum anniversary, ten ground-breaking Latino films of the last two decades will be showcased. These include the controversial Y Tu Mama Tambien, about two male teen- agers who take a road trip with an older woman and discover an unexpected intimacy between themselves; gay director Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother; Desperado, starring Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek at the height of their hotness; and the little-seen Cuban film Fresa y Chocolate, which features the growing friendship between a straight revolutionary and the free-spirited gay man who has a crush on him. Such diversity among the anniversary features is commendable but it is
also worth noting that, since 2008, the San Diego Latino Film Festival has programmed a special Cine Gay showcase for the LGBT community. Ac- cording to the website, the fest “continues its mission to help correct the often distorted images seen on television and in movies by revealing LGBT lives through international film.” It continues: “Challenging the historical exclusion of underrepresented communities in the media, the festival takes advantage of the opportunity of this showcase to highlight experi- ences of gay life in different corners of the world, underlining the universal experience as well as the unique expressions of the Latin LGBT community.” Cine Gay 2013, which is presented by the San Ysidro Health Center, incor-
porates several U.S. and even world premieres. Most of them will be shown more than once.
K-11: Starring Goran Visnjic (ER, The Deep End, Begin- ners) as a straight record producer who finds himself in jail and confined to a dormitory reserved for gay men and transsexuals. Kate del Castillo and D.B. Sweeney co-star and the film marks the directorial debut of Jules Stewart, a longtime script supervisor who just happens to beTwilight star Kristen Stewart’s mother.
Havana Muda: Is a documentary focusing on the love triangle between a deaf mute Cubano, his mute wife and his male Mexican lover/benefactor. It is described as a “beautifully observed documentary about class and sexuality.”
Todo Mundo Tiene a Alguien Menos Yo: This is the first film by talented writer-director Raul Fuentes. It features a relationship between two women: Alejandra, a condescending intellectual, and Maria, a curious private school student. They soon begin a passionate love affair that makes their generation gap seem trivial.
Marcelo: This film is about the title character’s infatuation with his neighbor, Julio, who Mar- celo envisions as his favorite superhero. Marcelo’s emotionally-disturbed mother, however, stands between them as she strives to “protect” her only son.
Sleepless Knights: The Spanish-German coproduction in which Carlos, who is spending the summer with his shepherd father, meets a young police officer. The two fall in love against a backdrop of political unrest and medieval reenactments.
La Pasion de Michelangelo: Set in 1983, this film centers on a sexually-repressed teenager, Miguel, who begins to have visions of and conversa- tions with the Virgin Mary. The Church sends a priest to Miguel’s village to determine whether the sight- ings are miraculous or not.
Cine Gay short films: This program will be com- prised of James Valdez’s Fallen Comrade (which won an award at last year’s Long Beach Q Film Festival), I Feel Lost, Loxoro, Sin Ruta, Las Vegas and Augie Robles’ provocative The Rookie and the Runner.
For more information on films, scheduling and loca- tions, or to purchase tickets, visit
sdlatinofilm.com.
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