• There’s a musical instrument drive to help out the kids in the foster care system.
• It’s not easy being a heterosexual male, and the Lege wants to help ease the trauma.
• Have you seen this Hitler/Franklin’s BBQ Internet meme hoo-ha?

Once again demonstrating that this is a great city for film lovers, The 14th annual Cine Las Americas Film Festival begins on Thursday. Over 100 films have been selected to participate, and they represent the best emerging voices in Latin American film. more ›

Exiled in America, a short film by local director Angela Torres Camarena, has been selected to appear in the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City. Only twelve “inspiring” films made the cut, and beginning on June 4th they will all be available for public viewing through the festival’s Web site. more ›

Cine Las Americas Film Festival schedule for Thursday, April 24th. more ›

Cine Las Americas Film Festival schedule for Wednesday, April 23rd. more ›

Basically, the consumption of food is an inescapable facet of life; there are those to whom the act gives not even the slightest pause, but for some people it consumes every moment of conscious thought, whether it be avoiding caloric intake or hoarding it. Members of the later group, three women to be exact, are the focus of the dark and whispery Malos Hábitos (Bad Habits), the feature film debut of Mexican director Simón Bross, which is screening tonight at the Alamo South Lamar as part of Cine Las Americas. more ›

Cine Las Americas Film Festival schedule for Monday, April 12st. more ›

Cine Las Americas Daily schedule for Sunday, April 20th. more ›

Cine Las Americas Film Festival schedule for Saturday, April 19th. more ›

In addition to all the films screening at Cine Las Americas on this beautiful Friday evening, tonight is also Brazil Night (which is code for "party till you drop"). From 10pm until question mark, Academicos da Opera Samba School and DJ Boris will be spinning Brazilian and World Contemporary Music at the Copa Bar & Grill on Congress. Admission is free with Film Pass or festival ticket stub. more ›

Tonight, the Cine Las Americas film festival will screen four films, including the Argentinan drama XXY, Alejandro Springall's dramatic comedy Morirse está en hebreo (My Mexican Shivah), actor Diego Luna's legendary boxer doc JC Chavez and Lorena Giachino Torrens' doc Reinalda del Carmen, mi mamá y yo (Reinalda del Carmen, My Mother and Me). more ›

Tonight, the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival will kick off its 11th edition with a reception and screening at the Paramount Theatre, followed by an after-party at the Mexic-Arte Museum on Congress (where there'll be appetizers, drinks and music). The program this year looks amazing--in all, the festival will screen eighty-two films from eighteen countries in a wide range of genres, including drama, documentary, experimental, animation, film noir, thriller, comedy and fantasy. And, of course, all of the films are made by or about Latino and indigenous people of the Americas. more ›

This past Saturday, two Austinites took home Independent Spirit Awards! Chris Eska took home the "John Cassavetes Award" for his feature August evening, and Laura Dunn took home the "Truer than Fiction Award" for her film The Unforeseen, a documentary look at the controversy surrounding Austin's real estate development and its impact on the Edwards Aquifer and Barton Springs. more ›

If you love booze and cinema, well, have we got a deal for you. Cine Las Americas, Austin's own multicultural, non-profit media arts center, will be holding Chicha 56, a combo happy hour and after party fundraiser to benefit this year's programming. The event comes a mere 56 days before the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival kicks off. more ›

Rock y Roll Dia’s second annual Dia de los Muertos concert takes place at 7 p.m. this Friday at La Zona Rosa. Hosted by VJ Paul Saucido (Sonido Boombox on ME Television), last year’s bash was marked by an appropriately eerie atmosphere, a sharp dressed Paul, and international and local musical talent. This year the event is a two day extravaganza, with music from Austin acts such as Boombox and Kanko, and out of state... more ›

Deep in the heart of Tejas, November 2nd means it's time to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos, the holiday that's emblemized the grinning calavera since like, 500 years before designers went batshit crazy stenciling skulls all over everything. It's a day to honor the lives of the dead, and to acknowledge death as a continuation of life, oh and also to make party at La Zona Rosa for their Rock Y Roll Dia celebration. Cine... more ›

Tomorrow night, Cine Las Americas presents Víctimas del Pecado (Victims of Sin), an over-the-top slice of Mexican melodrama from 1951 and the second installment in Cine's Sin, Scandal and Song series. There's sin aplenty here (and also really great outfits and hairstyles), courtesy of its setting in postwar Mexico City's red-light district (romanticized in lush black and white cinematography by the legendary Gabriel Figueroa). Amidst all the picturesque seaminess, beautiful cabaret dancer Violeta (Ninón Sevilla)... more ›

ACL Previews Interview: Patterson Hood Del McCoury Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band Jon Dee Graham, Kevin Devine, and Ike Reilly Assassination Beau Soleil & Will Hoges Rail Road Earth It's Official: Bob Dylan & His Band Set to Play Stubb's Aftershow So You Wanna See An ACL Taping Trent Summar, Steve Earle, & DeVotchKa Interview: Crowded House It's Official: Bob Dylan & His Band Set to Play Stubb's Aftershow Weekly Features The Accidental Gentrifist:... more ›

Donald Trump and The Apprentice have nothing on screenwriter Mateo Gil (Vanilla Sky, The Sea Inside). Gil zeroes in on the paranoia of office politics and brutal selection processes that force contestants to adhere to strict, snazzy dress codes in El Metodo, a critically acclaimed film that was released in Spain two years ago. The New York Times apparently labeled the movie as a comedy-laced suspense drama. For those of us that were not in Spain in 2005 and didn’t see this genre-bending movie appear anywhere else, Cine Las Americas will be hosting a screening tomorrow night at Regal Metropolitan 14. more ›

Capturing the raw power of a grassroots hip-hop movement in the heart of Texas, INSIDE THE CIRCLE tells the story of two strikingly talented b-boys, Josh and Omar, former best friends who become rivals when they join competing dance crews. Immersed in the b-boy culture of defiant creativity, Omar rises to international renown, while Josh tangles with the law. Both of them struggle to keep dance at the center of their lives, and the "B-Boy City" competitive events thrown by visionary street dancer Romeo Navarro serve as emotional milestones in their journey to adulthood. Facing off in intense dance battles that mirror the larger events in their lives, Josh and Omar seek meaning and identity "inside the circle." more ›

Watching the film En El Hoyo (In the Pit) is kind of like being in a pit… of boredom. While the documentary’s intentions are good, and some of the subject matter is intriguing, En El Hoyo ultimately fails to tell a compelling tale about its subjects, the construction workers on a massive bridge project in Mexico City. The film could have been a highly topical opportunity to make Americans reflect on the costs of our car-centric culture. Instead, largely as a result of introducing too many characters and issues without truly delving into any of them, En El Hoyo is more of a snooze than a wake-up call. more ›

We have to admit, we went into 36 Steps (36 Pasos), the newest film by Argentinean gore-extraordinaire Adrián García Bogliano, completely unaware of the director’s body of work with no better excuse than we are very busy and didn’t have time to research the film or the man on the internet before hand lazy. However, we did have time to procure a lunchtime feast from P. Terry’s burger stand consisting of a cheeseburger combo meal... more ›

En El Hoyo | In the Pit (México)Bob Bullock Texas State Museum, 7 PMAccording to a Mexican legend, the devil asks for one soul for every bridge that is built, as a guarantee for the bridge’s durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo’s documentary In the Pit this old legend takes on new meaning. Made of more than 17 kilometers of asphalt, the Second Deck is a major urban project set to transform Mexico City. The most... more ›

Madeinusa (Peru, Spain)7 PM, Regal Metropolitan Theater #14Madeinusa is a girl who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) until Easter Sunday, in which the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days, sin does not... more ›

Having just recovered from the chocolate bunny/Peeps induced haze that characterizes the beginning of the Easter season in los Estados Unidos (the United States to the gringos), we found Claudia Llosa's first feature film depicting the religious festivities of the indigenous Peruvian town “Manayaycuna” to be much more shocking than our cotton-tailed-capitalistic-glut could ever hope to be. We are introduced to Madeinusa (pronounced “Mah-daya-noosa” and played luminously by Magaly Solier), the charming daughter of Cayo... more ›

Costa Rica SA | Costa Rica, Inc. (Costa Rica) Hideout Theater, 11 AM The film explores with satirical black humor some absurd aspects of the Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA); such as the inclusion of war weapons as objects of commerce for Costa Rica, a country without an army, or the incorporation of Central American undersea resources as part of the United States’ definition of territory. Costa Rica, Inc. was... more ›

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Maquilapolis ("City of Factories") Regal Metropolitan, Theater 12, 7pm Carmen Durán lives in Tijuana, where, like most women in her neighborhood, she works in a maquiladora: one of over 800 factories owned by the countless multinational corporations that flocked to Mexico following 1994’s NAFTA treaty in search of cheap labor. The maquiladoras—where workers manufacture everything from TV components to pantyhose for about $6 a day—sit in hillside clusters towering over Carmen’s village, spewing toxic sludge... more ›