Providence Latin American Film Festival (PLAFF)

This is the English version for the documentary AfroLatinos. You can find out more at www.Afrolatinos.tv

The Providence Latin American Film Festival (PLAFF) was founded in Providence, RI in 1993, as a non-profit and multi-cultural organization, to promote Latin-American culture.

Enrique Fernandez, is a critically acclaimed screen writer and director whose films have graced festivals around the world including the Bursa Film Festival (Turkey), Dubai Film Festival (UAE), Huelva ...

Cesar Gogorza is a faculty member of the Department of Theology at the Superior Evangelical Institute of Theology (Instituto Universitario ISEDET) in Buenos Aires.As such, he is responsible for organizing ...

Olga Juzyn is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Rhode Island College, where she teaches Latin American literature and culture as well as film. She has written documentary ...

Yumey Besú Payo was born in the Cuban city of Camagüey, where he eventually joined the country´s main film critic’s forum. Payo has a strong background in telecommunications and is closely involved with documentary and video production, both for cinema and television. ...

Alberto Ramos Ruiz is a film critic and festival programmer whose reviews have appeared in Ecos, Cine Cubano, Ciemme and cin&media (Venice), SIGNIS Media (Brussels), Kinetoscopio (Bogotá) and Pantalla ...

Today is the last day of the 17th Providence Latin American Film Festival. At every venue we will be screening films (shorts and feature length): all interesting, provocative, varied. The stories come from Puerto Rico, Spain, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba and even one from the USA, Sin Ti. ...

Yolanda grows up in the shadow of La Lupe and with the help of her aunt, who is a big fan she decides to pursue her singing career. She is so passionate about singing that she Hill let nothing or no one get in her way. ...

In August, 1994, more than 33,000 Cubans attempted to escape the island by sea. Two writers, friends since adolescence, are faced with a choice: Continue struggling with the hardships of the island or brave the open water on a homemade raft. ...

A young couple walk along the seawall by the pier talking, arguing and thinking, as one of them is taking the hard decision to leave Cuba tomorrow. / Una pareja camina por el malecón de la Habana, mientras caminan, discuten, mientras discuten, piensan en mañana.