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Our 17th edition of Centroamericanto Fest, took place on Friday September 19th with our Central American Film night and on Saturday September 20th the Central American music concert. Both events were held at the Asian American Resource Center on 8401 Cameron Rd. Austin TX. 78754.
On Friday 19th, the film festival we premiered the salvadoran movie “Nunca Es Tarde”, had a meet and greet its producer and actress Cristina Melendez and actor Oscar Aguilar, they also participated of a Q&A session after the movie. Other films shown were salvadoran short films “Todas”, “Fleeting” and “El de la mochila” also in attendance for Q&A was André Grettfreund Oscar winner salvadoran producer and actor.
On Saturday 20th, the music festival, activities started at 5:30PM with our vendor fair of traditional food and community organizations. Later we enjoyed the music of Luis Pastor from Nicaragua, Max Frigüey from El Salvador, Luis Leiva of Marimba Quetzalteca from Guatemala, Danza Amor por Panamá, Costa Rican dance by Carolina Roth and also performances by hosts Mauricio Callejas trio.
This project has been financed in part by the City of Austin’s Elevate Grant Program. We also thank the support of our sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring this event click here.