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U.S. Census Inspires Film Festival Line Up

By Adrian Florido / Border Reporter
Published March 9, 2012 at 7:20 AM PST
This story was published more than 12 years ago.
U.S. Census Inspires Film Festival Line Up
For the first time in its 19-year history, the San Diego Latino Film Festival's theme is Latinos in the U.S. and will highlight films about the Latino experience in the U.S. It will also feature events with Latino television stars.

The theme of this year's San Diego Latino Film Festival is Latinos in the U.S. - a first in the festival's 19-year-history.

Organizers were inspired by the results of the 2010 Census, which revealed just how large the U.S. Latino population has grown.

“We all kind of internally thought: 'Wow, why did we never think of this before?'” said Lisa Franek, the festival’s artistic director. She said the festival's focus has long been on bringing international Latino films to a U.S. audience.

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But this year it will highlight films about the Latino experience in the U.S. and feature nightly events with Latino television stars.

“Arts and culture is where you see what’s happening with people. That’s what they do when they’re having fun," Franek said. "So I think that the culture is where we see where we’re going in terms of who we are.”

The festival runs through March 8 - 18 at the UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas.

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Adrian Florido
Adrian Florido is a reporter for the Fronteras Desk where he covers the U.S.-Mexico border, immigrant and tribal communities, demographics, and culture. Before joining KPBS, he was a staff writer at Voice of San Diego. There he reported on San Diego neighborhoods, focusing on immigrant and under-served communities as well as development, planning, land use, and transportation. For a year, he delivered a weekly television segment on NBC San Diego. He's a Southern California native who moved to San Diego in 2009 after earning an undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago. He majored in history with an emphasis on the US and Latin America. In college he was news editor of the student paper, the Chicago Maroon, and also spent time reporting from Capitol Hill and working with the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. He also likes to eat. A lot. And he likes to run to keep up his appetite. And he likes good music.
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