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THE 2002 SAN DIEGO Latino Film Festival is set to begin on March 14, and festival director Ethan van Thillo expects big crowds to see eighty films on three screens over a ten-day period. "Especially the Mexican films," says van Thillo, "which naturally are the favorite of our audience, 90 percent of whom are Mexican and MexicanAmerican."
Mexican films again this year are sure to be crowd pleasers: I tu mama tambien [And Your Mother Too], an edgy teenage flick by Alfonso Cuaron, is the largest grossing Mexican production in Mexico ever, and Maria Navaro's Sin dejar huellas [Without a Trace], a road movie about two women on the run in Yucatan, puts a refreshing feminist twist on the archetypal buddy story. But films in Portuguese, English, and the street jive of East Los Angeles are just as likely to be on the program as movies with a Mexican accent.
The festival is now in its ninth year and to date has attracted thirty thousand people to see over four hundred films, everything from...