This year’s Local Flavor Showcase and Awards features 11 films, ranging from lighthearted narrative shorts I Like You a Bot (Harmony Schlesinger), Brooklyn Love (Samuel Thomas Garcia) and The Tooth Fixation (Theresita Acosta) to heavier narrative shorts Crawford (Dakota Thomas), The Howl of the Furies (Bayron Norman), and Light! (Ulises Córdova). There is one experimental film, Who’s Afraid? (Sigi Trevizo), a music video, Luna Llena (Ryan Riddle), and three documentaries, Sombras Nada Mas (Diego Munoz Holguin), Ternura Radical (Celina Garcia) and Snapshots of Resilience (Viridiana Villa). Awards will be handed out at the end of the program for the $1,500 first prize, $1,000 second, $750 third, audience favorite ($250), college film ($100) and high school film ($50). A free, public reception follows at 5:30 pm in the Foundation Room. Judges are filmmaker/NMSU film professor Ilana Lapid, producers Javier Gonzalez, and Asia Saucedo of the film festival program advisory committee. A free, public reception for the filmmakers follows at 5:30 pm in the Foundation Room, 333 N. Oregon. Local Flavor is generously sponsored by the El Paso Film & Creative Industries Commission and the Texas Film Commission. — Doug Pullen
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