Another celebration of Hispanic film - Orlando Hispanic Film Festival

“James Schoepflin is a 41-year-old photographer and filmmaker who moved to Central Florida last December and decided, pretty quickly, that the place needed a Hispanic Film Festival, one that could run during Hispanic Heritage Month.

He had worked with the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival in Phoenix, “and I realized, on getting here, that I needed something to do,” he says, grinning. Schoepflin, who is of Cuban-American heritage, said starting a festival “seems like a great way of meeting people in the business here, and doing something for the community.”

He met with other members of the area Hispanic film community. Scrambling to line up films, sponsors, a venue to show the films and assemble a jury-selection committee meant that Schoepflin and the other Orlando Hispanic Film Festival organizers would miss their Hispanic Heritage Month deadline (Sept. 15-Oct. 15). And Orlando already has the OLA Fest, the Orlando Latin American Film & Heritage Festival, which takes place every February. That event, headed into its fourth year, combines film, music and poetry, with films from all over Latin America, and draws several thousand.”*

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