12th San Diego Latino Film Festival.

Media Arts Center San Diego’s prestigious and internationally recognized San Diego Latino Film Festival, soars into 2005 with an impressive and exhilarating schedule of activities, special events and initiatives. The Twelfth Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF) is now accepting entries for the 2005 festival. SDLFF will take place March 10-20, 2005 at the Mann Theaters at Hazard Center located in beautiful San Diego, California. Last year’s festival was attended by an audience of 15,000 actively-engaged film lovers, filmmakers, actors, programmers, distributors, industry representatives and journalists. The San Diego Latino Film Festival uses its unique geographical and cultural position of the San Diego Border Region to make the festival a premiere venue for the exhibition of international and U.S. Latino features, shorts and documentaries.

The 2005 San Diego Latino Film Festival puts filmmakers and their films/videos in the spotlight. The following is just a taste of what filmmakers and attendees can experience by participating at the upcoming San Diego Latino Film Festival: 100 feature and short films to be screened; over 100 guest filmmakers and actors. Past festival guests have included such renowned individuals as Alfonso Cuaron, Arturo Ripstein, John Leguizamo, Patricia Velasquez, Fernando Sariñana, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia-Bernal, Rodrigo Prieto, Alex Lora, Lupe Ontiveros, Bruno Bichir, Yancey Arias, Tony Plana, Elpidia Carrillo, Humberto Solas, Dennis Leoni, Paul Rodriguez, Patssi Valdez, Luis Valdez, Gregory Nava, Edward James Olmos, Lourdes Portillo, Moctezuma Esparza, Ray Bradbury, Jacob Vargas, Lucia Murat, Nancy de los Santos, Vanessa Bauche, Hector Galan, and hundreds of other emerging and established Latino filmmakers.

Eleven years ago, the San Diego Latino Film Festival was originally established as a student film festival focusing on works by Latinos and/or about the Latino Experience. Since that time, the San Diego Latino Film Festival has developed into one of the larger and most well respected Latino film festivals in the country.

For more information at http://www.sdlatinofilm.com