WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The American Film Institute has announced that its 7th annual Latin American Film Festival will, for the first time, present awards to winning filmmakers.
The festival -- scheduled for Sept. 22 through Oct. 3 -- is designed to present new, internationally recognized films from across Latin America. It will be held at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Md., and at the AFI National Film Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Awards for best feature, best short, best director, best actor and best actress will be presented in a ceremony at the AFI Silver Theater on Oct. 2.
The festival is presented by the Organization of American States, AFI and the Association of Ibero-American Cultural Attachés. This year's screening schedule includes 32 features and 19 shorts from 15 participating nations -- including, for the first time, Nicaragua.
The schedule includes "Sex with Love", the top box-office attraction of 2003 in Chile.
