The Xicano Independent Filmmakers Festival (the XicanIndie Film Fest) is an annual four-day festival that highlights the artistry and experiences of the Latinx community in four areas, the Chicano Independent Filmmakers, Latino World Cinema, El Epoca de Oro ( the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema) and Cine Mejicano. Over the years the XicanIndie has hosted local, national and internationally acclaimed filmmakers. Benjamin Bratt, Esai Morales, Jesus Treviño and Miriam Colón have been among the filmmakers and artists who have participated the XicanIndie The XIFF focuses on local Chicano film, screens Latino World Cinema, independent film that comes throughout the Latinx diaspora and works in collaboration with the Mexican Consulate to screen films from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (Epoca de Oro) and also presents the work of contemporary Mexican filmmakers. The XicanIndie FilmFest was created to offer a forum for Latinx stories and storytellers.. We will bring together filmmakers and audiences to share in the love of film as we continue our cultural legacy of storytelling, through many different mediums. The XicanIndie Film Festival allows movie goers the opportunity to interact directly with the filmmakers through platicas and forums in a social environment. The XicanIndie also hosts receptions and after parties, featuring food, drink, and great conversation. The Film Festival highlights with the XicanIndie Awards ceremony honoring the best in Chicano/Latino Cinema. Join us in April for 4 days of food, fun and film!
XicanIndie FilmFest XXI
April 4 – 7, 2019
Featuring:
Dreamers (Dick Alweiss/USA)
It’s Going to be Beautiful (Luis Guitierrez Arias/USA & Mexico)
Harvest Season (Bernardo Ruiz/USA)
Man From Reno (Dave Boyle/USA)
Carlos Almarez: Playing with Fire (Elsa Flores Almaraz & Richard Montoya/USA)
Guie’dani’s Navel (Xavi Sala/Mexico)
Closer to Bottom (Jesse Borrego/USA)
Maya Faces in a Smoking Mirror (Bill Jungels/Guatemala)
Gino’s Wife (Aaron Lee Lopez/USA)
Reportero (Bernardo Ruiz/USA)
Flavor of Life (Rajesh Golla/USA)
American Me (Edward James Olmos/USA)
A Boy Called Sailboat (Cameron Nugent/USA)
John Leguizamo’s Road to Broadway (Ben DeJesus/USA)
Chones (Short Films)
When They Come For Me (Alejandro Jimenez/USA)
Entelequia (Juan & Daniel Salazar/USA)
Functional (Daniel Luna/USA)
Broken English (Oscar Alvarez/USA)
Mi Amor (Yenifer Behrens/USA)
Waking Dream (Theo Rigby/Mexico)
XICANINDIE AWARDS 2019
Lifetime Achievement Award PEPE SERNA
Best Documentary PLAYING WITH FIRE
Nuevo Cine Mexicano/ Best Picture GUAI’DANI’S NAVEL
Best Short Film BROKEN ENGLISH
New Media/Best Episodic FUNCTIONAL
XicanIndie FilmFest XX
April 5 – 8, 2018
Featuring:
The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo (Phillip Rodriguez, USA)
Marigold the Matador (Kenneth Castillo, USA)
Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados (Nicole Esquibel, USA)
We Were Chicanos (Caryn Sanchez, USA)
Murder in the Woods (Luis Iga, USA)
Dolores (Peter Bratt, USA)
Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno (Laurie Coyle, USA)
Song for Cesar (Andres Alegrai & Abel Sanchez, USA)
Donaire y Esplendor (Arturo Montenegro, Panama)
They Called Me King Tiger (Angel Estrada Soto, Mexico)
ROOT (Molina Speaks, USA)
Symbols of Resistance (The Freedom Archives, USA)
My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew (Rick Tejada-Flores, Bolivia)
Walkout (Edward James Olmos, USA)
Diario de Bucaramanga (Carlos Alberto Fung, Venezuela)
CHONES (Short Films)
Lifeline (Susan Brunig, USA)
Welcome Back (Matias Nilsson, Mexico/USA)
La Carta (Jazmin Aguilar, USA)
El Camino (Alexander L Lee, USA)
Entelequia (Juan Salazar & Daniel Salazar, USA)
La Tierra (Daniel Salazar, USA)
After Joaquin (Daniel Salazar, USA)
XICANINDIE AWARDS 2018
Premio XicanIndie Documentary THEY CALL ME KING TIGER
Premio Outstanding Feature MURDER IN THE WOODS
Premio Tonatiuh Outstanding Performance Hugo Cabajal for LIFELINE
Premio Ometeotl New Media (or Music) ROOT
XicanIndie FilmFest XIX
March 30 – April 2, 2017
featuring
Blood In, Blood Out (Taylor Hackford, USA)
A Todo Color + Short Concert (Randy Valdes, Cuba)
Welcome to the Northside (Boby LeFebre, USA)
The Other Barrio (Dante Betteo, USA)
Cesar Chavez (Diego Luna, USA)
Ovarian Psycos (Joanna Sokolowski & Kate Trumbull-Lavalle, USA)
Las Tesoros de San Antonio (Jorge Sandoval, USA)
Ana Maria in Novela Land (Georgina Garcia Riedel, USA)
Mangore (Luis R Vera, USA)
Clever (Alan Dominguez, USA)
La Tercera Raiz (Camilo Nu & Reed Rickert, Mexico)
Ruta Madre (Augustin Castaneda, USA)
CHONES (Short Films)
Best of Culture Clash
Welcome to the Northside (Bobby LeFebre, USA)
Victor y Isolina (William D Caballero, USA)
Are You Sure? (Jared Rains, USA)
Steal Some Time (Molina Speaks & DJ Icewater, USA)
XICANINDIE AWARDS 2017
Premio XicanIndie Documentary: A TODO COLOR
Premio Mictoc Outstanding Comedy: RUTA MADRE
Premio Herencia: LAS TESOROS DE SAN ANTONIO
Ciuatzintli Award Outstanding Performance by Female Actor: Veronica Valencia in THE OTHER BARRIO
Premio Chones Outstanding Short Subject: CLEVER
Premio Tonatiuh Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Richard Montoya in THE OTHER BARRIO
Premio Ometeotl New Media: WELCOME TO THE NORTHSIDE
Premio Ollin Outstanding Feature: THE OTHER BARRIO
XicanIndie FilmFest XVIII
April 7 – 10, 2016
featuring
Truly TexMex w/ Chef Adan Medrano
Conversation w/ John Valadez
Police-Latino Relations: What Has Changed? w/ Alan Dominguez & Ernesto Vigil
The Head of Joaquin Murrieta (John Valadez*)
Ella Es Ramona (John Valadez)
Latino Americans Episode 6: Peril & Promise
Squeezebox (Sam Lerma, USA)
Los Hamsters (Gonzales Penilla)
The Misadventures of Cholo Chaplin (Kenneth Castillo*, USA)
Counterpunch (Kenneth Castillo*, USA)
Pinches Actores (Hermanos DuFour, Mexico/France)
La Sombra del Roble (Nicolas Saldivia, Chile)
Una Ultima y Nos Vamos (Noe Santillan Lopez, Mexico)
CHONES (Short Films)
The Two Rickies (Juan Diego Rodriguez, USA)
Marea de Tierra (Chile)
Quinceneara (Tania Romero, USA)
Borderball (Alan Dominguez*, USA)
Jessie Vive: On a Path to Justice (Buried Seeds of Resistance, USA)
Angels of Anbar (Elvis Leon, USA)
Dante (Peru)
Total Animal III (Tristan Guerlotte, France)
Honorio: Two Minutes of Sun (Paco Gisbert & Paqui Ramirez, Spain)
Its Not You, Its Me
El Genio (Fabia Rey & Johnny Whitehead, Puerto Rico)
XicanIndie FilmFest XVII
April 9- 12, 2015
featuring
Fugly! (Alfredo De Villa, USA)
Words of Revolution (Edward Gonzales Jr.,USA/El Salvador)
The Frame (Jamin Winans, USA)
Oscar (Ruben C Gonzalez*, USA)
Tapia (Eddie Alcazar, USA)
La Espera Desespera (Corally Santaliz, Puerto Rico)
Recommended by Enrique (Rainnea Attieh & Daniel Garcia, USA)
Strike One (David L Meiselman, USA)
Cry Now (Alberto Barboza, USA)
Aguruphobia (Richard Montes, USA)
Now En Espanol (Andrea Meller, USA)
Book of Ruth (Pablo Veliz, USA)
Children of Giant (Hector Galan, USA)
CHONES (Short Films)
Unicorn Blood (Alfredo Vasquez, Spain)
Alfredo (Steven A Porras, USA)
La Maldicion (Homero McDonald, Mexico)
Scrap (Raoul Vehill, USA)
Casey (Miguel Duran, USA)
Selling Rosario (Michael Winokur, USA)
Sam Cooke (Manuel Roybal & Joaquin Liebert, USA)
XICANINDIE AWARDS 2015
Lifetime Achievement Award – Alma Rodriquez (STRIKE ONE)
Best Documentary – TAPIA
Best Director – David Llauger Meiselman (STRIKE ONE)
Best Actor – Johnny Ortiz (STRIKE ONE)
Best Actress in Comedy – Jade Puga (AGURUPHOBIA)
Best Supporting Actor – Carlos Ramirez (AGURUPHOBIA)
Risa (Comedy) Award – OSCAR
XicanIndie FilmFest XV
April 4 – 7, 2013
featuring
Late Night Cabaret Performance by Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza
Performance by Nicolas Valdez
Producer’s Circle Panel w/ Fanny Veliz, Douglas Spain, Nicolas Valdez & Ric Salinas
El Inca, La Boba y El Hijo del Ladron (Ronnie Temoche, Peru)
Inocente (Sean Fine & Andrea Nix, USA)
Justice for My Sister (Kimberly Bautista (Guatemala)
Searching for Sugarman (Malik Bendjelloul, Sweden/UK)
Tales of Masked Men (Carlos Avila, USA)
Homebound (Fanny Veliz*, USA)
Mission Park (Bryan Ramirez, USA)
Delusions of Grandeur (Iris Alma & Gustavo Ramos, USA)
Bowl of Beings (Bruce Logan, USA)
Violeta Went to Heaven (Andres Woods, Chile)
CHONES (Short Films)
Mikailwitl: A Journey of Life and Death (Rudy J Miera, USA)
Seed Story (William Caballero, USA)
El Xorro (Nicolas Valdez*, USA)
Maria: La Roach Killer (Nicolas Valdez*, USA)
XicanIndie FilmFest XIV
April 19- 22, 2012
featuring
Performance by El Sistema at Garden Place Elementary School
Panel w/ Happy Haynes & Monica Vischer
Tocar y Luchar (Alberto Arvelo, Venezuela)
Saving Private Perez (Beto Gomez, Mexico)
Water & Power (Richard Montoya, USA)
Nostalgia de la Luz (Patricio Guzman, Chile)
Custom Mary (Matt Dunerstick, USA)
Captive Beauty (Jared Goodman, Colombia)
Octubre (Daniel & Diego Vega, Peru)
Juan de los Muertos (Alejandro Brugues, Cuba)
Spoken Word (Victor Nunez, USA)
Precious Knowledge (Dos Vatos Films, USA)
All She Can (Amy Wendell, USA)
CHONES (Short Films)
Automation X001 (Amaurante Montez, USA)
Blind Hope (Mario Fierro, USA)
Bronze Future: Letters for 2045 (Adrian Molina, USA)
Chicano Artists (USA)
Marca Pais (Prom Peru, Peru)
XicanIndie FilmFest XIII
April 7- 10, 2011
featuring
Man of Two Havanas (Vivian Lesnik Weisman, USA/Cuba)
Gun Hill Road (Rashaad Ernesto, USA)
Poetic Myth of Tony Shearer (Daniel Salazar, USA)
In Therapy (Jose Alvarenga Jr., Brazil)
Photos of Angie (Alan Dominguez, USA)
The Dry Land (Ryan Piers Williams, USA)
As Long As I Remember: American Veteranos (Laura Varela, USA)
Tropico de Sangre (Juan Delancer, Dominican Republic/USA)
Espiral (Jorge Perez Solano, Mexico)
CHONES
Choke (Michele Latimer, Canada)
Cinderella (Magali Magistry, Brazil/France)
Copia “A” (Pablo Alberto Diaz, Argentina)
Salvaje y Libre (Daniel Salazar, USA)
