The festival will consist of opening and closing keynote addresses, screenings of six Latin American movies, post-film discussions with most of the directors and a roundtable featuring filmmakers and critics.
All events are free and open to the public.
Films will be shown with English subtitles, and interpreters will translate the post-film comments. The keynote addresses will be in English, but the roundtable discussion will be conducted in Spanish without translation. David William Foster, chairman of languages and literatures at Arizona State University, and Michael Chanan, a British documentary director who focuses on Latin American subjects, will deliver the keynote addresses. Foster specializes in Argentinean literature and film and has written widely on Spanish-language cinema, culture and society. The roundtable will focus on achievements and shortcomings of Latin American cinema today.