19th Sept – Film
- Friday September 19th, 2025 at 7-10:30 PM
- Asian American Resource Center (8401 Cameron Rd. Austin TX. 78754)
- $10 general admission (Parent guardian needed with 18 and under)
- Q&A session #1 with Cristina Melendez and Oscar Aguilar
- Q&A session#2 with Salvadoran Oscar winner André Guttfreund
Agenda
- 6:30 PM – Meet and Greet with Cristina Melendez and Oscar Aguilar cast of “Nunca es Tarde”
- 7:00 PM – Salvadoran short film “Todas”
- 7:15 PM – Feature Salvadoran film “Nunca es Tarde”
- 8:30 PM – Q&A #1 with Cristina Meléndez and Oscar Aguilar
- 9:00 PM – Intermedio
- 9:15 PM – Salvadoran short film “Fleeting”
- 9:20 PM – Salvadoran short filme “El de la mochila”
- 9:30 PM – Q&A #2 with André Guttfreund ex. producer of Fleeting and El de la mochila
- 9:40 PM – Costa Rican documentary “Buscando el Swing”
Meet and great at 6:30 PM
Come early for a meet and greet with “Nunca es tarde” cast and producer Cristina Melendez and Oscar Aguilar. Also salvadoran Oscar winner producer and director André Guttfreund.
Cristina Meléndez, also known as Cris Meléndez, is an award-winning Salvadoran actress, producer. As the founder of Clak Films-the most awarded production company in El Salvador’s history-Cristina has led seven film productions that have collectively won 19 national and international awards, establishing her as one of the most recognized and decorated actress and filmmaker in El Salvador.
Q&A session with André Guttfreund
Andre R. Guttfreund is a Salvadoran actor, film director and producer. With an active carreer in developing film infrastructure and creators in El Salvador. He is widely known as the producer of the 1976 short film In the Region of Ice, for which he received an Oscar at the 1977 gala.
Feature lengh films
Nunca es tarde (US premiere)
- Country: El Salvador
- Director Álvaro J. Martínez.
- Produced by Clak Films
“Nunca es tarde” (It’s Never Too Late) is a heartfelt love story about family, laughter, and traditions. While helping plan her best friend’s wedding, Ale (Cristina Meléndez) runs into Diego (Henry Urbina), her teenage crush who never felt the same-or so she thought. After 20 years away in Spain, Diego is back in El Salvador, but he’s not alone. He’s carrying a family secret that explains why he stayed away so long. The first thing on his list? Seeing Ale, the one person he’s never been able to forget. A family tragedy and his growing feelings for Ale convince him to stick around a little longer and join his friends Juan (Oscar Aguilar) and Raquel (Rebeca Gonzalez) on a trip that changes everything. Between reconnecting with family roots and unexpected twists.
Buscando el Swing (Documentary)
- Country: Costa Rica
- Director Francisco Murillo, Pedro Víquez.
- Produced by Profana
A journey through the territories where cumbia was born” was held at the National Library of Costa Rica and received valuable support from Ibermúsicas. This work, declared of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture, explores the origins of cumbia and its connection to Costa Rican “Swing Criollo”. It is directed by Rialengo and Aguajé, two renowned exponents of Latin American music.
Short films
Todas
- Country: El Salvador
- Director and writer: Pamela Robin
- Duration 14:57
- Genere Drama
- Music by Ivan Barrera
- Cast: Vanesa Tomasino, María Fernanda Badillo y Christos Andrianos.
- Photography: Roberto Molina
- Edition: Mauricio Alejandro
- Parental warning: Dialogs for mature audiences
Two women, two stories, one invisible wound: ageism. A tale of the professional and intimate burdens that women face when aging, TODAS exposes how this prejudice affects dreams, relationships, and opportunities.
Director Pamela Robin, a well known musician of El Salvador, has developed a paralell pasion for film making in both Mexico and El Salvador.
El de la Mochila
- El de la mochila (2023)
- Country: El Salvador
- Runtime: 4:01
- Director and editor: Angel Ricardo Rysh
- Original idea: André Guttfreund
- Script: A. R. Rysh y A. R. Guttfreund
- Cast: German Acosta
- Camera: Armando Dago
- Music: Chacón Music
German is in a hurry to get to college, but his backpack breaks along the way.
Salvadoran filmmaker. At 17, he made his first short film collection (Cine Apolo) with his group of high school friends, who formed the film collective APOLO 5. He made the short film Otro Zoo (2017), completed in 2018 and released in 2019. During those years, he has made the fiction shorts Café Salvador (2017), Adiós (2018), Bilocación (2020), El Fruto de la Felicidad (2020), Por eso odio a los Monos (2023), and the short documentary Hacer o no Hacer Cine (2019). Some of his short films have been screened in Paris, Chicago, Brasilia, China, Spain, and Guatemala City. He is currently working on his first fiction web series.
Fleeting
- Country: El Salvador
- Runtime: 09:47
- Director: Arturo López Rodas
- Executive producer: André Guttfreund
- Producer: Walter Rodríguez
- Writer: Arturo López Rodas
- Key cast: Francisco Martínez, Paolo Salinas
- Genre: Drama
- Language: Spanish
- Subtitles: English
- Shooting format: Digital
- Shot entirely with one cell phone
- Aspect ratio: 21:9
Synopsis: An old man has had a recent episode of early stage dementia, so his daughter sends his grandson to take care of him. Being bored at home, the grandson proposes they should go out instead. Even though they were never close, they slightly bond along the night.