Festival Data:

• Established: 1984
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 30000
• Media Attendance: 10
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 100
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 500
• Total Number of Films Screened: 120
• # of Shorts Screened: 45
• # of Features Screened: 75

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Festival Description:

The annual Festival promotes Latino culture in the United States by presenting the best and most recent films and videos from Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the United States. The Festival stresses the importance of the artistic and educational value of a film. The Festival is non-competitive; however, the most popular feature film is awarded the Audience Choice Award.

The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago (ILCC) produces other events throughout the year including workshops, retrospectives and premieres.

ILCC launched the first Iberoamerican film collection for distribution on home video. In addition, the ILCC maintains a video library as a resource for educators,

filmmakers, distributors, television stations and others. The videos are from past participating Festival films and are used for educational and non-commercial purposes.