Consideration, highschool and college-aged Latinx filmmakers: the inaugural ¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Fest desires to see your work. The on-line pageant, which is able to have a good time and amplify younger Latinx voices in movie from September 18-October 16, is now accepting brief movie submissions, a press launch introduced.

Movies (30 minutes or much less) that function a Latinx in a lead artistic place both on or offscreen are eligible. Initiatives might be narrative or nonfiction works in English or Spanish. “There is just one theme: Previous meets Current and Strikes Ahead,” in keeping with the fest’s FilmFreeway web page. “Candidates should classify their movie beneath one of many following classes: Expertise, Arts & Tradition, Setting, Training, and Social Empowerment.”

Featured filmmakers could have the possibility to win the Grand Prize ($5,000), the Pupil Prize ($2,000), or the chance to attend a Grasp class.

¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Fest can even embody workshops, panels, networking occasions, and viewing events.

“We’re excited to be again and sit up for welcoming submissions for our rescheduled 2021 inaugural version,” mentioned pageant director Luis Alejandro Molina. “This pageant’s theme speaks to what introduced us to this second in time and invitations us to think about a future the place we’re all seen, heard, and most significantly, counted.” He continued, “Past selling range and inclusion, the pageant and its sequence of “Conversations Amongst X” digital panels are designed to ask dialogue and reflection among the many bigger Latinx content-creating neighborhood concerning the points that have an effect on us right now. Whether or not you might be an newbie filmmaker in school or a highschool scholar who aspires to make films in the future, we need to hear your story.”

¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Fest’s common submission deadline is August 16, and the late deadline is August 30. Notifications will exit by September 6. Head to FilmFreeway to submit or discover out extra.