Official Latino Film and Arts Festival

We are open for Submissions:

The 6th Annual Official Latino Film and Arts Festival will take place this year in the City of Palm Springs, California. Due to the Corona Virus, this year, the festival will be reduce to a one day event. We are programing the festival for Saturday, October 24, 2020 (subject to change).

Last year we were able to coordinate 3 licenses from our screening films directly to HBO Latino. 3 lucky filmmakers will see their films this summer on HBO streaming. A dream come true, not only for the filmmakers but also for us as an organization.

This is what we do, It's all about the filmmakers!

Filmmaker Danny Hastings www.dannyhastings.com created the Festival in 2015 in response to the lack of Latinx representation in Hollywood films and TV shows. Our mission is to showcase, nurture, and support the emerging creative Latinx filmmaker that produces, directs or writes their films in the United States. We also support films and filmmakers that showcase our true American Diversity in their films, so we accept Non-Latino Films that showcase Diversity – Black, White, Asian, Native American, All Genders, LGBTQ+… All – You are all invited to submit.

This year we are going to highlight our American Spirit and only accept films that were made in the United States.

THAT’S RIGHT!!!!

This is the first American Domestic Film Festival of it’s kind. Why NOT? There’s already tons of International Latino Film Festival and we want to stand from the rest.

Our Neighbors, Our Community, Our Family.

This year’s theme is “Community”. For many years Latinx Filmmakers and Filmmakers of Color have been writing, directing, producing short films here in the U.S., and for reasons that we know too well, we still struggle to get any type of proper representation. We wait no longer for “the powers that be” to tell our stories.

Another important detail is that we take films that have been produced from January 1, 2017 to July 2020. So if you have a film that started collecting dust, for a year or two, send it our way, it might have a chance to still get in.