The fourth annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival will show 50 films, virtually all of them subtitled, from 19 Latin American countries, Spain, and the U.S. (including several independent works from Chicago). All screenings will be held at the Three Penny Cinema, 2424 N. Lincoln, from Friday, September 23, through Sunday, October 2. Ticket prices per program (short and a feature) are $6 for adults, $4 for students, senior citizens, and handicapped persons; a festival pass can be purchased for $50. For information, call 751-3421 or 431-1330.
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BOLIVAR: A TROPICAL SYMPHONY Diego Risquez, a Venezuelan painter and performance artist, has made four features in Super-8; this is his latest, a survey of Latin American history centered on the figure of Simon Bolivar, the greatest liberator of the 19th-century Spanish colonies. Bolivar is played by two actors–one who embodies the textbook myth of Bolivar as conqueror and ruler, one who plays Bolivar as a genuine revolutionary (DK) On the same program a short by the Uruguayan Experimental Film group, In the Jungle There Is Lots to Do, an animated music adventure. (Sunday, September 25, 2:00)
CRAZY LOLA A comic encounter between a social worker and the Boston Hispanic community is the focus of Enrique Oliver’s new feature; Oliver will be present at the screening. On the same program, James Bogan’s documentary short, T-Shirt Cantata. (Monday, September 26, 8:45)
HEARTSTRINGS: PETER, PAUL & MARY IN CENTRAL AMERICA Ana Carrigan’s hour-long documentary account of Peter, Paul & Mary’s fact-finding mission to El Salvador and Nicaragua in 1986, which includes concert footage as well as an account of what they saw and heard (1987). (Thursday, September 29, 10:00)
LA NEGRITA: THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF LOS ANGELES The first feature filmed in Costa Rica, directed by Richard Yniguez, is based on a 17th-century legend in which a woodcutter (Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini) sees five apparitions of the Virgin Mary after her village is devastated by a volcanic explosion (1985). Bonilla Giannini, who also wrote and produced the film with her husband, Yniguez, will be present at the screening. On the same program, Juan Padron’s Cuban animated short, Quinoscopio (1986). (Friday, September 23, 9:00)
