The next few weeks are big for Latinos on screen, as the Del Corazon festival at the Mexican Fine Arts Center continues, and Latino Chicago Cinema kicks off its 12th Annual Latino Film Festival.
“Chicano!” — a landmark four-part PBS special — gets a special advance screening at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Filmmaker Hector Galan, the program’s producer, will be on hand to talk about the series and answer questions. The show will air nationally on PBS in two parts, April 12 and 19.
The Del Corazon fest, which featured Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes in its opening presentation last week, will continue through June and includes performance art by Yareli Arizmendi, music by the Pirekuas Singers and Los Folkloristas and theater by Teatro Vista and Teatro Esperanza.
Chicago Latino Cinema screens Carlos Saura’s 1995 “Flamenco” at its opening night gala next Friday, April 12. The film, which features more than 300 singers, dancers and guitarists, will be making its Chicago debut.
Other festival highlights include Betty Kaplan’s adaptation of Isabel Allende’s “Of Love and Shadows” starring Antonio Banderas, and a tribute to three generations of Argentinean filmmaking through four films by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, his father and two sons.
For information about the Del Corazon festival, call the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 1852 W. 19th St., at 312-738-1503. For more on the Latino Film Festival, call Chicago Latino Cinema at 312-431-1330.
“Flamenco” will be screened next Friday at 8 p.m. in the Rubloff Auditorium at the School of the Art Institute, Columbus and Jackson.
