Hola Mexico Film Festival

If you had any doubts about Mexico’s domination of this thing called the Latin American cinema movement before, this will set the record straight: The Hola Mexico Film Festival is the largest of its kind outside of Mexico, and it’s coming to the U.S. for the second year in a row (there’s already a version of it in Australia since 2006). Yes, Australia! Having started in NYC, this year the festival expands to the two other meccas of Mexican culture in America: L.A. and Chicago.

The Los Angeles fest passed already, but you still have time to catch the Chicago and New York ones, which run from June 19 (today) through 25, and June 23 – 28, respectively. Check out their site and see for yourself. There will be fiestas with DJ sets from the likes of Mexican Institute of Sound, tacos, tequila, Jarritos, and 14 works that prove yet again that Mexico is the reel (get it?) deal when it comes to cinematic storytelling. I’m so there.