Below is the Chismes on Senorita Cinema Film Festivals past from our last to our First.
Guest Artist Natalia Rocafuerte's bumper for our fabulous festival weekend Nov.1st-3rd 2019
Friday November 1st 7PM Opening Night Screening Event
Film Starts 7 PM Sharp
Location
Rice Cinema - Rice Media Center
2030 University Boulevard
Houston, TX 77005
Location
Rice Cinema - Rice Media Center
2030 University Boulevard
Houston, TX 77005
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"Our Quinceañera"
Synopsis: Through the power of community, young Latinas discover that any dream or aspiration is achievable. A high school principal in a small town in Texas hosts a yearly Quinceañera for students that can't afford it. The event started with 4 girls and it is now a celebration for 80 girls. The entire border town of San Benito, TX gets together to teach these girls that with the power of community any dream can come true |
Filmmaker Fanny Veliz Grande in Attendance with Special Guests |
FRIDAY NOV. 1st LATE NITE and IT'S ALRIGHT
LOCAS! VARIETY SHOW with HOST LA LLORONA!
LOCAS! VARIETY SHOW with HOST LA LLORONA!
10:30Pm-MIDNIGHT
Location
MATCH - Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston
3400 Main St,
Houston, TX 77002
Location
MATCH - Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston
3400 Main St,
Houston, TX 77002
in partnership with Houston Fringe Festival presents LOCAS a late night variety program hosted by La Llorona Featuring theater, spoken word, film and a live video n vinyl set by special guest DADA WESTERN of Chulita’s Vinyl Club Austin Chapter. 10:30Pm-MIDNIGHT MATCH2 Houston.
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Check Out DADA WESTERN'S AKA Natalia Rocafuerte's Senorita Cinema Bumper made ESpecial for this years FESTIVAL!
SATURDAY NOV. 2nd 7PM SENORITA CINEMA SUPER SHORTS!
Reception at 7Pm Screening 7:30 PM
Location
Location: Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St, Houston, TX 77098
Location
Location: Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St, Houston, TX 77098
Our Signature short film showcase featuring Latina Filmmakers from all over. A true fan favorite and chance to catch the next rising star. This year’s “Super Shorts” program– an exciting mini movie mixtape including the Houston premieres of films Changeling by Helena Martin, Triste Alegria by Danila Cervantes, Preludes by Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez, and many others. Join us before the show for a reception with food provided by Taco Lady and beverages provided by Saint Arnold Brewery, and more.
SUNDAY NOV. 3rd 1:30PM La Concha Community Screening
Reception at 1Pm Screening 1:30 PM
Location
Location: 14 Pews
800 Aurora St, Houston, TX 77009
Location
Location: 14 Pews
800 Aurora St, Houston, TX 77009
The perfect way to close out a great festival. La Concha Community Screening at our fabulous festival partner 14 Pews. From Argentina it’s Una Banda de Chicas (A Girl’s Band) a documentary about the Riot Grrl movement. Pan Dulces and Mexican Hot Chocolate . 1PM-3:30PM
"Una Banda de Chicas"(A Girl's Band)
Synopsis:
"I changed the bass for the camera,” says Marilina Giménez, who until 2013 and for six years played in the band Yilet with two girlfriends. That is the framework in which her autobiographical and choral documentary film was conceived. Its gender perspective confronts several dilemmas: Which is the women’s role in the current music scene? What happens when women make the music they choose?
Synopsis:
"I changed the bass for the camera,” says Marilina Giménez, who until 2013 and for six years played in the band Yilet with two girlfriends. That is the framework in which her autobiographical and choral documentary film was conceived. Its gender perspective confronts several dilemmas: Which is the women’s role in the current music scene? What happens when women make the music they choose?
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Film Director Marilina Giménez, ROCK ON!
10% of Ticket Sales will go to Girls Rock Camp Houston. 
Girls Rock Camp Houston is dedicated to
empowering girls and women of all
backgrounds and abilities through musical
education and creative expression.
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Special Thanks to
Festival Partner 14Pews
This Screening Also made possible by
Gender Reel Houston
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What a Party! Señorita Cinema 5 Celebrates Big Time!
Houston Press Voted Best Arts Festival!
AUGUST 27th-30th 2015
NEW THIS YEAR! Senorita Cinema teams up with
The East End Studio Gallery for an evening of Arte and Fun!
THURSDAY AUGUST 27th
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East End Studio Gallery 708C Telephone Rd, HTX, 77023 6:00PM-9:00PM |
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FRIDAY AUGUST 28th OPENING NIGHT AWESOMENESS
AN EVENING WITH JOSEFINA LOPEZ!
Josefina Lopez receives Señorita Cinema's Inaugural Corazon Award
Josefina López is best known for authoring the play and co-authoring the 2002 SUNDANCE AWARD WINNING film Real Women Have Curves. Josefina started her writing career at 17 and has had over 80 productions of her many plays throughout the country. Josefina has been working as a professional screenwriter in Hollywood for almost 25 years with countless development deals and screenplay assignments. She has worked with many established Producers like Norman Lear (All In the Family) and Michael McDonald (American Crime) to bring Latinos to television. Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 1969, Josefina Lopez was five years old when she and her family migrated to the United States and settled in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Josefina is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, has an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Film & Television, and has a Diplome de Cuisine from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris. Josefina was undocumented for thirteen years before she received Amnesty in 1987 and eventually became a U.S. Citizen in 1995.
Josefina is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including a formal recognition from U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s 7th Annual “Women Making History in Hollywood” in1998; and a Screenwriting Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 2001. She and Real Women Have Curves co-author George LaVoo won the HUMANITIES PRIZE for Screenwriting in 2002, The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Award from L.A. Mayor in 2003, and the Artist-in-Residency grant from the NEA/TCG for 2007.
Josefina is the Founding Artistic Director of CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights which is celebrating it’s 15th anniversary. At CASA 0101 her commitment is to present plays that celebrate and shatter the myths and stereotypes of Women and Latinos and she teaches playwriting and screenwriting to a new generation of Latino and women artists.
Josefina is presently developing the musical version of Real Women Have Curves for Broadway. Her first novel titled Hungry Woman in Paris came out in 2009. Her two plays collections Real Women Have Curves & Other Plays and Detained in the Desert and Other Plays as well as her countless books can be found on Amazon. She wrote a play to protest SB1070 titled Detained in the Desert, which she produced as a film and which won best Feature at the Los Angeles International Women’s Film Festival. She is working on numerous writing projects for the stage, screen and for print. For more information please go to Josefinalopez.co & casa0101.org.
Rice Media Center is
located at the corner of University Blvd and Stockton, entrance #8 on the Rice University Campus
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Opening Night August Friday 28th Rice Media Center Reception 6:30 Film at 7:30 Josefina will present her film Detained in the Desert. Followed by a Q & A/ Talkback GET TICKETS HERE |
Detained in the Desert parallels two completely different people: Sandi Sanchez, a second-generation dark skinned Latina, and Lou Becker, an inflammatory talk show radio host, who find each other lost in the desert and discover their humanity and the true plight of migrants crossing the Arizona desert.
JUST ADDED!
Workshop: Where is the story? Creating and Connecting.
Arte with Josefina Lopez
Saturday August 29th 3-5pm East End Studio Gallery 708C Telephone Rd, HTX, 77023
Josefina Lopez leads an open discussion/workshop on the joy and challenges of creating with your authentic voice. LIMITED SEATING PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW.
SATURDAY AUGUST 28th LIVE FROM HOUSTON TEXAS,
IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT SUPER SHORTS!
It’s ladies night and the feeling is right! Señorita Cinema is back for their 5th big go around this year with a screening featuring all independent Latina-made shorts from here there and everywhere. Rumor has it there may even be a historical space western comedy this year! Doors open at 7PM, so come early and check out the Mini Mercado with local artisan made goodies and community partners.
Check out highlight reel of some the dynamite shorts featured
in past senorita cinema festivals.
in past senorita cinema festivals.
SUNDAY AUGUST 30th MYSTERY MATINEE LIVE PERFORMANCE AND FILM FIESTA
photo credit: Yunen Gonzalez Arellano
Join us This Sunday at 2 pm 14 Pews as we close out this year's celebration with exciting performances and film that explore what it is to be Latina. Performers to be announced soon. Traditional Mexican Pan Dulce y Chocolate for your enjoyment.
JUST CONFIRMED! INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR JULIANA FANJUL'S MUCHACHAS
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Muchachas - My grandmother’s death brought me back to Mexico City, where my eyes were opened as to on how unfair our relationship with the maids had been. To what extent was I also responsible for the invisibility of these women, who had always lived around me? |
What a super weekend! I can't believe it's all over. Thank You to all that made it out.
Below is the rundown of our fabulous festival weekend June7th-9th 2013
Friday June 7th 6:30 PM Opening Night Screening Event
"Delusions of Grandeur"
Synopsis:
In the mid-90's a medicated grungy girl stopped taking her Prozac, crossed over a rainbow and became a woman in a crazy wonderful place called San Francisco.
Synopsis:
In the mid-90's a medicated grungy girl stopped taking her Prozac, crossed over a rainbow and became a woman in a crazy wonderful place called San Francisco.
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Filmmaker
Iris Almaraz in Attendance |
Doors open at 630Pm with Opening Reception featuring light bites and Iris's Especial Sangria!
Location: Rice Media Center Click here for Map and Directions
Location: Rice Media Center Click here for Map and Directions
Senorita Cinema Opening Night Awesomeness!
SATURDAY JUNE 8TH SABADO GIGANTE! BIG SATURDAY! A WHOLE DAY FULL OF SUPER EVENTS!
Filmmakers Meet and Greet Luncheon - Good Times!
FILMMAKER WORKSHOP - VIDEO POETRY 4:30PM
Don't miss this chance to explore the creative world of this popular format that uses poetry and video to make arte. Hosted by Senorita Cinema Alumni Artist Activists Liana Lopez and Stalina Villarreal. This workshop is pay what you can but space is limited.
Liana Lopez
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Stalina Villarreal
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Location: Ripley House 4410 Navigation Blvd Houston, TX 7700 map here
Super Shorts Showcase Mercado Awards Ceremony
After Party 6PM-10PM
After Party 6PM-10PM
Our Signature short film showcase featuring Latina Filmmakers from all over. A true fan favorite and chance to catch the next rising star. Doors open at 6pm to our wonderful mercado(open market) of artisans and community organizations. Come pick out that special something you have been looking for and learn about what's going on around the city. After the shorts screening get ready to party! Live performance by Joyce Day and special set by super DJ Desi plus delicious food and drink.
Joyce Day
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DJ Desi
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Location: Ripley House 4410 Navigation Blvd Houston, TX 7700 map here
SUNDAY June 9th 1:30PM Matinee Magic
"Homebound"
Synopsis:
A successful young man returns to his small hometown of El Campo, Texas to reconnect with his roots.
Synopsis:
A successful young man returns to his small hometown of El Campo, Texas to reconnect with his roots.
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Fanny Veliz
Filmmaker Fanny Veliz in attendance |
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Houston's poet laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda |
The perfect way to close out a great festival. This year we are pleased to have Houston's own poet laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda as our special guest presenter.Pan de Dulce y Chocolate and a movie with Fanny in the house!
*Special Thanks to This Years Super Sponsors The Idea Fund and Seeds for Change*
Senorita Cinema 3 was held August Saturday 27th at Talento Billingue de Houston 333 S. Jensen 7003
Doors 7pm films roll 8pm-11pm
Outrageous!Over 22 big entries this year from Texas to Califas, Arizona to Nueva York. Thank you so much for all your time and talents. Each year the variety and quality of work continue to amaze.
Thanks to The Aurora Picture Show and TBH for helping put on an excellent program. Over 150 People in attendance this year! Wow! Also a super cool thank you to award presenter and Latina media legend Elma Barrerra as well as Splanglish chick chica herself Eloisa Castillo and jewlery artisan Elvira OCampos.
Here's our awesome show opening bump.
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Brenda Cruz
Fanny Veliz Rachel Estrada Jelly Jar Collective Mev Luna Sayra Contreras Veronica Caicedo Ivete Lucas Dolissa Medina Stalina Villareal Iris Alamaraz |
A Conversation with Nick Gaitan
No Kids. No Cry. A baby mama drama Possessed by the Beat Impatient Feast of the Beast Un Encuentro de Dos Tiempos Little Courage Mexican Fried Chicken The Moon Song of Assassination Reign Subterraneo La Puta* |
And the this year's winners are...Please click photo for info...
*Special Thanks to This Years Super Sponsor The Aurora Picture Show*
Senorita Cinema Dos...Good Times!
SEñORITA CINEMA DOS WAS PRESENTED MARCH
SATURDAY27TH 2009 8:00PM-10:00PM and SUNDAY 1:00PM-3:00PM
AT THE RICE MEDIA CENTER* 2030 University Blvd., Houston, TX, 77030
SATURDAY27TH 2009 8:00PM-10:00PM and SUNDAY 1:00PM-3:00PM
AT THE RICE MEDIA CENTER* 2030 University Blvd., Houston, TX, 77030
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Latchkey
IL Destino Lil 13 I Am Racing Daylight/ The Making of Delusions of Grandeur (Trailer) A Few Hundred Blows New Light in the Realm of Possibility OK Hello This is Micheal (In)complete Submission Sex Sterilization Room So You Say You Wanna Revolution |
by Soyla Santos
by Fanny Veliz by D. Valdez by Angela Soto by Nicole Quinn by Iris Almaraz by Jessica Leza by Architects of Cinema by Jessica Leza by Liana Lopez |
Please Click Stills Below for This Years Winning Shorts
*Special Thanks to Rice Ethnographic Film Society*
Senorita Cinema Uno...The Chismas
2007 Hokey Smokes what a fantastic festival! Thanks to all you who could make it out our inaugural year. Over 90 people
attended over the two evening event and despite a few technical glitches a swell time was had by all. An esteemed
panel of guest jurors selected 17 out of 30 dynamite entries. They included:
attended over the two evening event and despite a few technical glitches a swell time was had by all. An esteemed
panel of guest jurors selected 17 out of 30 dynamite entries. They included:
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Conversations II
Acciones Plasticas Through The Water Waking up from a Long Sleep Syncretism 19: Victoria, Texas Untitled Shortstop Mitosis La Pared The Soul/ La Alma Sarddodledom Sentence. Untitled The Buzz Dance with the Devil |
by Marianela Vega Oroza
by Maya Escobar by Tonantzin Canestro-Garcia by Pati Garcia by JoAnn Gutierrez by Dolissa Medina by Iris Alamarez by Fanny Veliz and Risa Machuca by Jessica Leza by Maru Buendia-Senties by Lisa Moren by Stalina Emmanuella Villarreal by Tina Hernandez by Pati Garcia by Melinda Marroquin |
Please Click Stills Below for This Years Winning Shorts
