New York International Latino Film Festival

2008 ON THE EDGE : SHORT FILMS

A Day at the Theatre, Cosita Linda (Pretty Little Thing), Donnybrook, El Cazador De Venganza (The Hunter of Revenge), La Paciente (The Patient), Repentance, Un Cuento (A Fairy Tale)

Shorts

A Beautiful Life

Maggie (Angela Sarafyan) is a runaway teenager fleeing her family; David (Jesse Garcia) is a teenage illegal immigrant in search of his.

Domestic

All of Us

In the troubled South Bronx, a young doctor embarks on a research project to find out why black women are being infected with the HIV virus at an alarming rate.

Documentary

BOHICA

Four American Army Reservists are sent on a meaningless mission guarding a radio tower on a barren patch of desert in American-occupied Afghanistan.

Domestic

Chop Shop

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop

Domestic

El Norte (The North) (1983) | FREE

Nominated for an Academy Award and widely declared as an American independent epic, El Nortea is the story of a brother and sister (Rosa and Enrique) who fled persecution at home and journeyed north the length of Mexico with a dream of finding a new home in the United States.

2008 NYILFF Rediscovered

Harrison Montgomery

Would-be artist Ricardo Papa is making ends meet as a petty drug dealer.When a deal goes sour, he is forced to go on the run from his boss and holes up at the Hotel Boyd in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin District.

Domestic

Hotel California

When drug smuggler Troy (Erik Palladino) turned on crime boss Dmitri (Raymond J. Barry), he was forced to flee Los Angeles and spend time hustling in Miami.

Domestic

KODAK GALLERY PRESENTS : NYILFF YOUTH SHOWCASE

This year the New York International Latino Film Festival and Kodak Gallery present the 1st annual NYILFF Youth Showcase, which is a collection of films made by Latino youth from across the nation.

Youth

La Corona (The Crown) / Laughing Silently /Street Witness

In a macho culture where femininity is narrowly defined, beauty pageants in Colombia have been known to get higher TV ratings than World Cup Soccer. Despite the poverty and violence in their lives, Colombian women are obsessed with beauty.

Documentary

Luchando (Fighting) / El Primo (The Cousin)

What was once a term synonymous with the revolutionary struggle in Cuba is now used to describe sex work for survival.

Documentary

Malta con Huevo (Scrambled Beer - Subtitled)

When two mismatched friends decide to move in together, unintended, truly far-reaching consequences result.

International - Film Subtitled

Mancora (Subtitled)

A worthy follow-up to director Ricardo de Montreuil's much-lauded "La Mujer de Mi Hermano," "Mancora" is an adventure drama that tells the story of Santiago, a 21year old from Lima.

International - Film Subtitled

Mona (World Premiere)

What happens when two men who feel their lives are going backward cross paths with a young woman bounding unselfconsciously forward?

Domestic

Off Jackson Avenue

Three lives intersect in this New York-set crime story. A young Mexican woman has been tricked into sex-slavery by an Albanian pimp and is desperate to find a way out.

Domestic

Panel 5 | LATIN HORROR: THE ACCENT ON A NEW GENRE

Do you have a taste for blood and a hankering for horror films? Scary movies have been earning big bucks and studios are finally taking note of the new crop of Latin filmmakers adding a touch of spice to the horror genre.

Panel

Red Canyon

In "Red Canyon", Regina and Devon return to their childhood home and the scene of a brutal attack to face the past and put it behind them.

On the Edge: Feature Films

SHORT FILMS : ADRENALINE

Shot, High Hopes, Vroom! Vroom!, Breast Pump & Blender, Escape, Mano

Shorts

SHORT FILMS : BOYS TO MEN

El Prestidigitador (The Prestidigitator), Kid, Verano 79 (Summer 79), Limpiando Sapos (Catching Rats), Little Bones, Victim

Shorts

The Gloves

"The Gloves" documents the struggle of four young men trying to make a name for themselves in the sport of boxing while simultaneously working to overcome their own adversities.

Documentary

The Ministers

John Leguizamo gives a tour-de-force performance as fanatical twin brothers, hell-bent on exacting revenge on the murders of their family.

Showcase Premieres

Transvestites Also Cry (Subtitled)

In a small side street in Paris, in a pair of dingy hotels, live two Ecuadoran transsexuals.

Documentary - Film Subtitled

Very Young Girls

"Very Young Girls" follows thirteen and fourteen-year old girls as they are seduced, abused and sold by pimps on New York City's streets, and treated as adult criminals by police. The lucky ones get a chance at a normal life at GEMS (Girls Education and Mentoring Services), a recovery center founded and run by Rachel Lloyd, herself a survivor of sexual exploitation.

Documentary