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  • Festival Information
    • The New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) is now the premier Urban Latino film event in the country. The NYILFF's mission is to showcase the works of emerging Latino filmmaking talent in the U.S. and Latin America, offer expansive images of the Latino experience, and celebrate the diversity and spirit of the Latino community. The NYILFF is the only film event to have had the endorsement of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC Latin Media and Entertainment Commission since its formation in 2003.

  • The Winning Director
    • Sergio Castilla earned the Heineken Red Star Award at the New York International Latino Film Festival in 2007.

      Chilean-born Sergio Castilla has spent his nearly 40-year career making movies that have a vast range. He made his first feature film, Disappeared Prisoners, in 1979.

      In 2001 Castilla produced another feature, Te Amo with his son Adrian Castilla in the leading role. In 2003 Castilla made another feature about young people Bienvenida Realidad.

      He is a graduate of the renowned L'Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques in Paris and a former directing instructor at both Columbia University and New York University.

  • The Winning Film
    • "Take the Bridge "

      Set in the Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights in the northern tip of Manhattan, Take the Bridge is the story of four young people brought together by a common, painful experience. After meeting at the hospital shortly after their suicide attempts, they become friends and together they begin planning a trip that will take them to Tierra del Fuego, South America, far from their surroundings and the past. To do so, they must cross the George Washington Bridge - the only bridge in Manhattan that doesn't lead to another borough.