Among the 2024 Local Flavor Awards winners pictured (from left) are: Bryant Valenzuela, The Cost of Opportunity; Christopher Saldaña and Ulises Córdova, Three Months in Star City (Ay Ay); and Edmund A. Lozano, Norma.
Eleven films were selected for this year’s Local Flavor Showcase and Awards in the 18th annual El Paso Community Foundation Plaza Classic Film Festival.
They screen at 3:30 pm Sunday, July 27 in the Plaza Theatre. Tickets are $6 at the Plaza Theatre Box Office (no service charges) and Ticketmaster.com (with service charges).
A free, public reception for the filmmakers will follow at 5:30 pm in the El Paso Community Foundation’s Foundation Room, 333 N. Oregon.
Generously sponsored by the El Paso Film and Creative Industries Commission and the Texas Film Commission, this year’s Local Flavor lineup consists of six narrative, three documentary, one experimental and one music video, which were selected from nearly 50 films submitted this year.
The selections are:
• Brooklyn Love (comedy), Samuel Thomas Garcia, El Paso, TX
• Crawford (drama), Dakota Thomas, El Paso, TX
• The Howl of the Furies (drama), Bayron Norman, Torreon, Coahuila, MX
• I Like You a Bot (comedy/drama), Harmony Schlesinger, El Paso, TX
• Light! (drama), Ulises Córdova, El Paso, TX
• Luna Llena (music video), Ryan Riddle, Albuquerque, NM
• Snapshots of Resilience (documentary), Viridiana Villa, El Paso, TX
• Sombras Nada Mas (documentary), Diego Munoz Holguin, El Paso, TX
• Ternura Radical (documentary), Celina Galicia, El Paso, TX
• The Tooth Fixation (comedy), Theresita Acosta, El Paso, TX
• Who’s Afraid? (experimental), Bardo Leo, Las Cruces, NM
Prizes are: First, $1,500; Second, $1,000; Third, $750; Audience Favorite, $250; $100 college student film, $50 high school student film.
For the third year, Local Flavor judges are Emmy Award-winning film and television producer Javier Gonzalez, filmmaker and New Mexico State University associate film professor Ilana Lapid, and Plaza Classic Film Festival Program Advisory Committee member Asia Saucedo.
The 18th annual Plaza Classic Film Festival is July 17-27 in and around the Plaza Theatre. Tickets are on sale at the Plaza Theatre Box Office and Ticketmaster. Passes are on sale at plazaclassic.com/tickets.
The deadline for submissions has passed. Thank you for your interest!
