Museo Motion
A Latin Wave turns MFAH into a movie hot party scene
Latin lovelies and film aficionados filled the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Thursday night for the opening of the celebrated Latin Wave film festival. Now in its sixth year, the festival welcomes eight films to the museum for showings through Sunday.
Following screenings of Octubre, Asalto al cine and Los Colores de la Montaña, more than 1,300 cinephiles (and fair-weather fiesta compañeros) filed into the porte cochere of the Audrey Jones Beck Building to clink glasses and bailar to the mixes of DJ Hector.
Splashes of Spanish and patches of Portuguese popped up from the movie-maddened crowd. DJ Hector selected choice tracks that ranged from Kanye to Café Tacuba, all spliced with the welcome salsa beat. On the dance floor's fringes, the partiers noshed on bites from MMM... Cupcake, Oh my! Pocket Pies and Armandos taco truck .
Upstairs in the Beck Mezzanine's VIP party, guests sipped and swirled while basking in the tempting festival film trailers.
Putting the "V" in "VIP" was festival director and Colombia-native Monika Wagenberg and Willy Goldschmidt, the project director of Fundación PROA, the Buenos Aires-based progressive art programming powerhouse. Offering expert insight on the festival's smart selection were directors Iria Gomez of Asalto al cine, Pedro Peirano of Gatos viejos, Gustavo Pizzi of Riscado and Carlos Moreno, director of Todos tus muertos.
Get the lowdown on the Latin Wave film festival here.