Unitas Centre of Lowell, MA invites you to submit your short film as we set out on our second year with El Encuentro: The Latino Film Experience.

We request submissions of short films (3 to 15 mins of length) for our upcoming festival to take place in Lowell, MA on October 13th-14th; a celebration of Hispanic Heritage month.

“Art Is the Handmaid of Human Good” is on the City Seal of Lowell, MA; the home of Jack Kerouac, Bette Davis, and James O’Neil Whistler. We have received generous funding from various institutions supporting the Arts, as well as monetary support from local businesses. Located just 45 minutes from Boston on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lowell is a mill city, home of the Industrial Revolution, and boasts one of the most diverse populations in all of Massachusetts.

So it is with great pride that we set out on this, our second Film Festival, which will highlight the achievements of Latino filmmakers, an underrepresented pool of talent that deserves to be seen and heard. The films will be shown at the beautiful, new Richard and Nancy Donahue Theatre at Middlesex Community College, downtown Lowell. All submitted projects will be judged by a random team of invited experts that cover a myriad of Arts related fields. All genres of film will be considered, from fiction to documentaries, to animation. Spanish and Portuguese speaking films must be subtitled.

Films may be submitted by going to our site on FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/ElEncuentroTheLatinoFilmExperience check the site below for more information: https://www.unitascenter.org/film-festival