Michelle Rodriguez stars in Juan Delancer’s TROPICO DE SANGRE, which will have its world premiere at the Latino Film Festival
Clearview Chelsea Cinemas, 260 West 23rd St. between Seventh & Eighth Aves.
SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves.
July 27 – August 1, $12 per screening
Festival Badge: $100
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The twelfth annual New York International Latino Film Festival, showcasing shorts, feature-length narratives, and documentaries made by Latino filmmakers in the United States and Latin America, opens tonight with the New York premiere of Ryan Piers Williams’s THE DRY LAND, about an Iraq War veteran returning to his small-town Texas community. The cast includes Ryan O’Nan, America Ferrera, Melissa Leo, Jason Ritter, and Wilmer Valderrama, and the screening will be followed by an after-party. Other highlights of the festival, which runs through August 1, are Keith Aumont’s BOYS OF SUMMER, which looks at the successful Curaçao Little League team; Ric Dupont’s ILEGALES, which follows the travails of a migrant Mexican day laborer; Kareem Mortimer’s CHILDREN OF GOD, which tells the story of a gay British artist fighting for his rights; Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s MANDRILL, about a Chilean hit man; and Carlos Moreno and Gerardo Muyshondt’s UNO, LA HISTORIA DE UN GOL, which examines the power of soccer during El Salvador’s civil war in the early 1980s. There are also such free panels as “Show Me the Money!” and “Rethinking Film Distribution: Doing It Yourself.”