About

The MSU Latinx Film Festival (LxFF) is a biennial, curated film festival that serves the state of Michigan with a special focus on the Latinx communities of Michigan State University, the greater Lansing area and the mid-Michigan region.

The mission of the MSU Latinx Film Festival is to create a space for the celebration and promotion of independent latinx cinema, which we conceive of inclusively as Spanish, English and Portuguese language films from Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. We promote films that are not readily available in the U.S. that challenge audiences to see the world differently. We seek to celebrate latinx filmmaking and inspire public debates and private reflection about the social, cultural and political questions raised by latinx cinema through post-screening discussions, director Q&As and special events, in addition to the informal interactions organically generated by the festival.

LxFF began as a bold initiative of MSU’s Department of Romance & Classical Studies (RCS) and it has grown to become a collaborative effort between multiple academic units and a number of institutional and community partners led by RCS faculty and graduate students. LxFF has been consistently supported by important grants from MSU’s Office of Inclusion & Intercultural Initiatives and Pragda, the leading educational distributor of Latin American, Spanish and Latinx films. LxFF is a member of the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, and LxFF 2020 received competitive sponsorship from the Michigan Film & Digital Media Office, recognizing it as an important state cultural initiative. The vision of LxFF is to become a dynamic Latinx festival of reference and to promote independent Latinx filmmaking within the Great Lakes region.

LxFF Director

Scott Boehm
Assistant Professor of Spanish & Global Studies
Department of Romance & Classical Studies
http://www.rcs.msu.edu/people/faculty/scott-boehm/

LxFF Advisory Board

LxFF Organizing Committee

José Adrián Badillo Carlos
Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic and Cultural Studies
Department of Romance & Classical Studies
http://www.rcs.msu.edu/people/jose-badillo-carlos/

Claudia Berrios-Campos
Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic and Cultural Studies
Department of Romance & Classical Studies
http://www.rcs.msu.edu/people/claudia-berrios-campos/

Miguel A. Cabañas
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of Romance & Classical Studies
http://www.rcs.msu.edu/people/miguel-cabanas/

Kiana González-Cedeno
Ph.D. Student in English
Department of English

Kailey Henderson
M.A. Student in Hispanic Literatures
Department of Romance & Classical Studies

Ricardo Lorenz
Professor and Area Chair of Composition
College of Music at Michigan State University
https://www.music.msu.edu/faculty/profile/ricardo

Alejandra Márquez Guajardo
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Romance & Classical Studies

Rael Mora
Founder & Director, Wayka.pe
Staff, International Student Programs
Staff, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
http://wayka.pe/

Laura Romero
Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic and Cultural Studies
Department of Romance & Classical Studies
http://www.rcs.msu.edu/people/graduate-students/laura-romero/

María Serrato
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education
Founder & Director, Capital Area Latina Youth (CALY)
Education Technology Program Assistant
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2018/staff-member-named-a-top-latina-in-michigan/

Isaac Veysey-White
Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic and Cultural Studies
Department of Romance & Classical Studies
http://www.rcs.msu.edu/people/graduate-students/isaac-veysey-white/