The 11th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival announces the winners of the four categories of its jury competition: Best First or Second Narrative Feature, Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Documentary Short.The Festival also recognizes the winners of Audience Awards.Best First or Second Narrative Feature Film is NOEL, POETA DA VILA (NOEL, THE SAMBA POET) from the Brazilian director, Ricardo van Steen. LA AMERICANA (THE AMERICAN, Nicholas Bruckman, USA), won the B...

The 11th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, scheduled from April 16 -24, will present films in its Panorama Program at the 501 Screening Room on Saturday, April 19th and Sunday, April 20th. The documentaries and short films that make up the Panorama Program tell a diverse array of stories that Cine Las Americas considers important to bring to Central Texas audiences. The films represent a variety of cultures as well as social and political issues that are underrepresented by mainstre...

The 11th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival will screen a total of -eighty-two films from eighteen countries. Genres this year will include drama, documentary, experimental, animation, film noir, thriller, comedy and fantasy (to see the complete list of films go to http://www.cinelasamericas.org/festival/films_by_section.html). "Thirteen films address immigration to and from the U.S. or Europe and/or issues related to the U.S. and Mexico border", explained Jacqueline Rush Rivera, Dire...