SF Latino Film Festival celebrates 10th year; Visconti series opens at BAMPFA
On a crowded film festival landscape — especially in the Bay Area — it’s a real achievement to hit the magical 10-year mark. So congratulations to the folks at Cine+Mas SF for the 10th San Francisco Latino Film Festival, now expanded to 17 days and nine venues — seven in San Francisco’s Mission District.
The official opening night is 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at the Alamo Drafthouse’s New Mission Theater (2550 Mission St.) with a screening of Abner Benaim’s documentary of musician, actor and activist Ruben Blades. Spanning his 50-year career, the documentary takes us from the center of New York’s salsa revolution of the 1970s to a failed attempt to become president in his native Panama.