Boston Latino International Film Festival

Boston's Latino Film Festival is in full swing - showing over 80 movies from the U.S., Spain and Latin America. December 11- 13 will be the last of 3 weekends presenting the latest films produced by Latinos and pertaining to social issues of Latino communities in the US and Latin America.

Friday's line-up starts at 5pm, with "Las Angeles" a narrative feature and humorous film about a Latino family in Los Angeles trying to vitalize its troubled car wash business. At 7pm "Portrait of a Lady" follows the emotional life journey and transformation of a young man in Puerto Rico into a lady of the USA.

Saturday "Paisajes Interiores" tells the story of three generations of miners in the Spanish provence of Leon. At 4:30 pm a selection of 4 U.S. and Latino short films.

Sunday at 5:30pm "Los Dioses Rotos" (Broken Gods) tells the tale of Alberto Yarini, a famous Cuban pimp and political figure at the turn of the 20th century. This film is followed by the festival's closing reception.

Films are in either English or Spanish with English subtitles.

All films this weekend will be screened at Cambridge College, about a 5-10 minute walk from Central Square. Admission is $8, and free for Cambridge College students.

For full schedule, information and film trailers:
www.bliff.org

Oh, Superheroes! Where will you be this weekend?

They'll be at Comicon Boston I suppose.

Will you be there?

Want to join the crowdsourced calendar project? Leave a comment here and we'll send you an application.

Have fun out there!

What to do in Boston

Recently, I found that the services I had depended on for accurate information about Boston events were woefully inadequate and unreliable.

In fact, one of these services even neglected to list one of the largest social media events of the year - a book signing and show taping with Gary Vaynerchuk at the Estate in Boston.

So I've decided to crowdsource - partially - and create a more comprehensive collection of events. These events might interest you, or you might be ambivalent. But that's the name of the game. I want you to share your info too.

Please get in touch via the comments - and leave your email - so that if you want to contribute to the blog I can send you an invite.

Thanks so much for your help and support.

Have fun out there!