San Antonio, TX- The nation’s original and longest-running Latino film festival returns in the summer of 2023 with the 44th edition of CineFestival San Antonio. Presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio’s annual celebration of independent Latino cinema will take place July 12-16, 2023, at the historic Guadalupe Theater in San Antonio’s Westside.
The 44th CineFestival will focus on Chicano, Latinx and Native American cinema, with an emphasis on Texas related films. The festival will be accepting films finalized after January of 2021. Depending on public health guidelines issued for the dates of the festival, the event will be held as a mix of virtual and live events, or exclusively in virtual format. To read the full Call for Entries and to submit a film, visit: https://filmfreeway.com/44CineFestivalSanAntonio
CineFestival San Antonio traditionally hosts screenings, Q&A sessions and panels at the historic Guadalupe Theater. Workshops, receptions, and after parties are held at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center campus and other community partner venues. Free community events include Family Day presenting a family friendly screening, a Youth Program showcasing work made by filmmakers 18 years old or younger, and a matinee Senior Cinema screening for the area’s elderly film lovers.
“CineFestival is honored to be able to continue serving a growing community of local, regional, and national film and media artists of all levels of experience. The spirit of the festival is to foster the work of San Antonio and Texas based filmmakers as their voices mature, while keeping our finger in the pulse of what nationwide filmmakers are producing and offering international context.”
“As we continue to provide local audiences to watch films that will otherwise be unavailable on the big screen, and to witness stories that are important and relevant to our communities, we also look forward to continue creating career defining opportunities to participating artists and festival alumni through workshops and master classes offered by established artists and members of the film industry,” said Eugenio del Bosque, CineFestival Programmer.