filmmaker OFFERINGS

Explore our curated festival season offerings and other year-round events aimed at engaging film lovers, filmmakers, and other creatives. Past events have included panel discussions, artist lectures, youth and adult workshops, and more.

PHLAFF 2023 Conversation

BronX Banda Q&A

Please check out this special Q&A session where we hear from Arturo O'Farrill of BronX BandA: Arturo O'Farrill & The Bronx in a conversation with Felix Contreras as a part of our PHLAFF 2023 Q&As sessions!

“BronX BandA: Arturo O´Farrill & The Bronx” pays homage to the history of the Afro-Latinx music birthed in the Bronx, and the artists on whose shoulders the work stands.

PHLAFF 2023 Panel

Femme Frontera Showcase Q&A

PHLAFF is excited to present the 7th Annual Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase Q&A. The Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase is an annual film festival held in El Paso, Texas, which celebrates short films made by women and nonbinary filmmakers from border regions around the world. Created in 2016, the festival is headed by women and nonbinary filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region. Femme Frontera has been featured in Variety Magazine, Texas Monthly magazine, and Remezcla. In 2018, the Showcase was listed as one of the top film festivals for female filmmakers.

PHLAFF 2023 Shorts Showcase

Realities and Dreamscapes - Unconventional Narratives of the Latin American Experience - Curated by Chica Barbosa

View the Realities and Dreamscapes Q&A Playlist

Chica Barbosa is a Mexican-Brazilian filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, US. Her artistic practice explores narrative, hybrid and experimental forms of storytelling, with a focus on themes of displacement, colonialism, borders, and faith as resistance.

Within the Realities and Dreamscapes program, encounters between reality and dreamscape, created by Latin American artists, transcend boundaries and beckon us to immerse ourselves in the kaleidoscope of their diverse perspectives, territories, and experiences.

Viewers can get a deeper dive into the six films presented in the curatorial program through the Q&A sessions that Chica has conducted with the filmmakers. You can also read more about the program in this article on our Los News page.

You can check other PHLAFF 2023 Q&As here!

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