2023 Festival Winners
2023 Houston Latino Film Festival Winners
Dominican film, 'Carajita' wins Best Narrative Feature
Carajita, the Dominican drama that features a relationship between a young socialite and her nanny that transcends their class and race conditions wins the Jury Award for Best Feature Film at Houston Latino Film Festival.
During the course of the 5-day event, which began on March 15, 2023, HLFF presented more than 60 independent films from 17 countries. Los Hermanos (The Brothers), the film that follows brothers, Ilmar and Aldo López-Gavilán, two music virtuosos as they perform together for the first time after nearly a lifetime apart, wins the Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary.
A complete list of winners follows:
2023 HOUSTON LATINO FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS
JURY WINNERS
Best Feature Narrative
CARAJITA directed by Ulises Porra & Silvina Schnicer
Best Feature Documentary
LOS HERMANOS (THE BROTHERS) directed by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider
Best Short Narrative
THE SHADOW OF THE CROWS directed by Elvira Barboza
Best Short Documentary
LAS MURALISTAS: OUR WALLS, OUR STORIES directed by Javier Briones
Best Student Film (Feature or Short)
THOSE WHO WANT NO BROTH SHALL GET TWO PLATES directed by Alejandro Victoria
Best Texas Film (Feature or Short)
GREEN WATER directed by Carlos Estrada
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Best Feature Narrative
THE POOL OF THE NOBODIES directed by José Luis Solís Olivares
Best Feature Documentary
WITH THIS LIGHT directed by Nicole Bernardi-Reis & Laura Bermudez
Best Short Narrative
THE TREATMENT directed by Álvaro Carmona
Best Short Documentary
WADING FOR CHANGE directed by Sofia Jaramillo, and co-directed by Jr Rodriguez
