Latinbeat: Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain, Oviedo 2008Jul 09–Aug 17

Latin American cinema has come a long way since the first edition of LATINBEAT in 1997, a yearly film series presented by the FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER every September in New York City. Though many of the first-time directors featured in that series have moved on to produce more complex works and the cinemas in their countries have continued to flourish, the germ of excitement and sense of urgency that characterized those early films remains. LATINBEAT 2007 featured 23 films from 12 Latin American countries, including a strong presence from often underrepresented filmmaking countries like Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Ecuador.

Organized by the FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER in collaboration with PRAGDA, the prestigious film program LATINBEAT will tour Spain during 2008. A selection of six titles that premiered in New York City during 2007 will visit Spanish cinematheques in Murcia, Cantabria, Madrid, and Canarias. These films coming from Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and Bolivia will portrait the trends in Latino American filmmaking!