5 Films to See at The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Oct. 10-14) The 16th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival starts in the heart of Hollywood. During 5 days, attendees will enjoy a great selection of vibrant movies from around the Hispanic world, plus very interesting panels with remarkable personalities. Here we put together a short list of 5 films that you should definitely should try to see. To access the full schedule and purchase tickets visit the official festival website. Pablo “Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of “famously unknown” Pablo Ferro. He is man with a personal journey that spans from pre-revolution Havana to his current home in the garage behind his son’s house. Pablo Ferro has worked for over 5 decades creating iconic trailer campaigns and opening sequences for films which include Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb. Pablo is credited as the father of the 60′s look and the MTV Aesthetics. The film is narrated by Academy Award recipient Jeff Bridges.” Sleeping With The Fishes “Sleeping with the Fishes is the story of a woman who finds herself stuck. After the death of her philandering husband, Alexis is both broke and broken-hearted. But it’s not until she is called back to Brooklyn for a distant relative’s funeral that she realizes what she thought was her rock bottom, clearly wasn’t… going home is. Sleeping with the Fishes is the story of one woman’s comedic journey back to where it all went wrong, to face her dysfunctional cross-cultural family and admit that the perfect life with the perfect man wasn’t so perfect after all.” Nosotros los Nobles (The Noble Family) “When successful construction Mogul, Herman Noble realizes his children are spoiled beyond redemption, he stages the company bankruptcy and seizure of all their assets. He moves them into their grandfather’s dilapidated home in a poor neighborhood and makes them do something none of them have ever done before… work.” Tanta Agua (So Much Water) “Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don’t turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto’s efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Lucía, his teenage daughter.” Narco Cultura “To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto – a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. NARCO CULTURA looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction to money, drugs and violence that are rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the US/Mexican border.” And just because I love science and speculative fiction, here is a bonus. Dragon Day “A family getaway to a mountain town turns deadly when China launches a massive cyberattack against the USA, forcing former NSA engineer Duke Evans to fight to save his wife and daughter in the New World Order.”
