Almost exactly one year after top brass at Los Cabos International Film Festival cancelled the 2023 event due to lack of financial support, the renamed Los Cabos International Film Festival: Cinema Encounters in Mexico is posed to return to the circuit in December.
Backed by the culture ministry’s Profest programme and private partners, the festival will run December 4-8. Organisers promised “top feature films” as opening and closing selections when the line-up is announced.
This year’s event will take place in a new locale, San Jose del Cabo, which will host events and screenings. There will still be screenings at Cinemex Puerto Paraíso in Cabo San Lucas.
The festival’s long-running Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund returns with a focus on first features in development from emerging Mexican talents. Selected projects will participate in a workshop to help new filmmakers navigate the process of making a debut film.
Mexican Cinema will take pride of place in the film programme accompanied by post-screening Q&As.
In an effort to train the Baja California peninsula’s film community and build a network for filmmakers, the festival has arranged a workshop for regional filmmakers taught by prominent figures in Mexican cinema.
Prior editions of Los Cabos became a magnet for Hollywood and Mexican industry executives and drew high-profile talent, among them Oliver Stone, Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, and Spike Lee.
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