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Tags: bilingual, Film, film festival, latin america
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The Colorado Springs film community is going bilingual this weekend with the launch of the Cinema Latino Film Festival.
The new festival is a joint project of the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival, the Springs’ oldest film festival, and Centro De La Familia, a social services nonprofit that works with the Spanishspeaking, American Indian and immigrant communities.
Sandra Hernandez, Centro’s executive director, said the group has held dances and fashion-show fundraisers in the past, but hosting a film festival is a way to delve deeper into the issues facing Latin American and Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. “*
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