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Festival de Cine Latino Americano – Norte

Festival de Cine Latino Americano – Norte (FDCLA-Norte) is the North Texas edition of the Festival de Cine Latino Americano, a nonprofit festival of international Latino and Latin American film. Founded as an organization in 2015 by Gabriel Duran, it held its first festival in 2016 at La Gran Plaza in Fort Worth, moved to the University of North Texas in Denton for several years and has used the Rose Marine Theater in Fort Worth since 2023. It gives awards for Tejano and Latino narrative and documentary shorts and features, a Young Filmmakers track for high school and college students and a lifetime Corazón Latino Award. After a funding cut shrank 2025 to one free day and no 2026 festival was held, it plans to return in 2027; dates are not set.

Festival · Fort Worth · Since 2016 · Active

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Rose Marine Theater, Fort Worth (2023–2025); University of North Texas, Denton (about 2017–2022)
FDCLA-Norte (nonprofit; founder and president Gabriel Duran; festival director Marielena Resendiz)
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Categories
Tejano Narrative Short
Tejano Narrative Feature
Tejano Documentary Short
Tejano Documentary Feature
Latino Narrative Short
Latino Narrative Feature
Latino Documentary Short
Latino Documentary Feature
Young Filmmakers (high school)
Young Filmmakers (college)
Prizes
Best Picture in each category with jury honorable mentions; the Corazón Latino Award for lifetime achievement (past recipients include Nancy De Los Santos, Jesse Borrego and Edui Tijerina).

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The organization was founded in 2015 and the first festival was held in 2016; ten editions ran from 2016 through 2025 ↗︎
A funding cut reduced the 2025 festival to a single day of free screenings, no edition was held in 2026, and a return is planned for 2027 with dates and venue unconfirmed ↗︎
Describes itself as the largest international Latino film festival in the Dallas–Fort Worth area ↗︎
The FilmFreeway listing still shows October 9–10, 2026 event dates, which the festival's own site contradicts (no 2026 edition) ↗︎
Dallas Film Commission lists it among select Texas festivals ↗︎
Sources
  1. Inicio | Home - Fdcla - NORTE FDCLA-Norte
  2. Sobre FDCLA | About FDCLA-Norte
  3. Convocatoria | Call for Entries FDCLA-Norte
  4. Festival De Cine Latino Americano - NORTE FilmFreeway
  5. Dallas Film Festivals Dallas Film Commission

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