The seventh annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, produced by Chicago Latino Cinema and Columbia College, continues from Friday, October 4, through Thursday, October 10. Film and video screenings will be held at the Three Penny Cinema, 2424 N. Lincoln; at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton; at the Chicago Historical Society, Clark at North; at the Instituto del Progreso Latino, 2570 S. Blue Island; and at individual branch libraries listed below. Ticket prices per program are $6; $4 for students, senior citizens, and handicapped persons; and $3 for Facets and Chicago Latino Cinema members. (Tickets to video screenings are $5; tickets to Chicago Historical Society and Instituto del Progreso Latino screenings are $3; the library screenings are all free.) Festival passes, good for all screenings, are $60, $40 for Facets and Chicago Latino Cinema members. For information call 431-1330.
ROUTES OF RHYTHM WITH HARRY BELAFONTE A video documentary feature about Afro-Cuban music by Howard Dratch and Eugene Rosow (1990). (Instituto del Progreso Latino, 7:00)
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BORDER BRUJO and THE NEW TIJUANA Video documentaries by Isaac Artenstein, about the Mexican-American border, and by Frank Christopher, about the Mexican border city (1990). (Facets Multimedia Center, 7:30)
RED SUNRISE Originally banned in Mexico when it was completed in 1989, Jorge Fons’s fictional feature dramatizes the impact on a middle-class family of the massacre of 400 people at Three Cultures Plaza in Mexico City shortly before the beginning of the 1968 Olympics. Actress Maria Rojo and actor-coproducer Hector Bonilla will be present. (Three Penny, 9:30)
TRANSPARENT WOMAN A Cuban sketch film about five separate women, each at a different stage in life, who recognize some truth about themselves. The directors: Hector Veitia, Mayra Segura, Mayra Vilasis, Mario Crespo, and Ana Rodriguez. (Three Penny, 3:00)
NEITHER WITH GOD NOR THE DEVIL The arrival of terrorists fulfills the awful vision of a village sorcerer. A film from Peru by Nilo Pereira del Mar to be shown in video. (Instituto del Progreso Latino, 7:00)
A QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE and MISS AMY AND MISS MAY Two videos–a docudrama by Ilan Ziv about the killing of six Jesuit priests and two women by uniformed soldiers at a San Salvador university, and a Jamaican documentary by Cynthia Wilmot about two women from leading Jamaican families, one black and one white, who fought for the rights of women and the elderly in the 30s. (Facets Multimedia Center, 9:30)
