{"id":380229,"date":"2026-07-20T23:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380229\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:33:27","slug":"dallas-latino-film-festival-accepting-short-film-submissions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380229\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Latino Film Festival accepting short film submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161768\" class=\"wp-image-161768 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/latino-cultural-center.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1917\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-161768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>The Latino Cultural Center will host its inaugural Dallas Latino Film Festival on Sept. 5, 2026, celebrating Latino storytelling, creativity and independent filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>As Texas\u2019 film industry continues to grow, the festival will welcome submissions from emerging filmmakers, students, independent creators, production teams and first-time directors.<\/p>\n<p>All genres are welcome, including narrative, documentary, animation and experimental films. Submissions must be original creations and 4 to 6 minutes in length. Films in a language other than English must include English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>Selected films will compete for awards including best short film, best director, best cinematography, best story\/screenplay and the audience choice award.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway.com\/DallasLatinoFilmFestival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submission<\/a>\u00a0deadline is Aug. 5, with official selections announced Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784590407_194_8ddafd819415d55fa9c7d86e7ec264373e8df34784422adeec47a828c58c2d8f.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. The Latino Cultural Center will host its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-380229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}