Tres largometrajes y seis cortometrajes realizados en Baja California se encuentran en selección en la edición vigésimo novena del San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), que se realizará del 10 al 20 de marzo  de forma presencial en varias sedes y de forma digital, informó el Secretario de Economía e Innovación, Kurt Honold Morales. En la sección Frontera Filmmakers Showcase se encuentran los largometrajes “Los Fundadores” de Diego Hernández, “Desde la Esquina” de Mario Genel y Omar Millán, e “Invasores” de Luis Moreno. De la misma forma aparecen seleccionados cortometrajes realizados en Tijuana y Mexicali, de géneros de ficción y documental, respectivamente.

The documentary “Desde Las Cuerdas” by Omar Millán and Mario Genel, about the career of boxing coach Rómulo Quirarte, competed at the Montreal Independent Film Festival in Canada. “Los Fundadores”, by Diego Hernández and produced by Melissa Castañeda, received the Silver Puma at the UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM) and the Premier Film Competition Award at the Marseille International Film Festival (FID) held in France. “Invasores”, directed by Luis Moreno, is a documentary about the problem faced by more than a hundred families from Tijuana who were forced to invade the "Cerro de las Abejas " due to the high prices of rents, food and unemployment.

Fiction short films in competition include “Hypocrisis” by Marlon Morales, winner of the Zoom Narratives Award at the International Film Festival with Alternative Media (FICMA); and “El Fuerte Se Cae” by Kenia Amaya, which was awarded Best Short Film at the Ensenada and Humano festivals. “Insolación” by Rogelio Sánchez Toledo, made in Mexicali, also participates, and which received the award for Best Mexican Horror Short Film at the 2021 Macabro Film Festival. The programmer of the binational section of Frontera Filmmakers of the SDLFF, Adriana Trujillo, said: “This year, a special spotlight is offered to the binational creative scene, celebrating the dynamic contemporary film landscape of Southern California, the United States, and Baja California. Hybrid territory, of constant flows; human, material, historical and creative. The 2022 selection resumes, after two years of very uncertain conditions, a binational creative sequence in total growth and boiling. This year in the program, works by young talents from the region will be exhibited, most of them with first and second films”.

The documentary short film genre is represented by “Las Cosas No Tienen Paz” by Samahil Borbon Ojeda, it is a story about the largest shipwreck in the history of Isla de Cedros. Likewise, “Obāchan” by Nicolasa Ruiz, about Fuyuko Kiyota, a Japanese woman who emigrated to Mexico in 1941, and who won Best Documentary Short Film at Shorts México. Finally, also in the selection is “#MorrasQueBailan”, directed by Viviana González Gómez, about a group of women who, incited by the pandemic and gender-based violence, dance as a form of resistance. "The views of the creators in this edition portrays a panorama of themes, forms and feelings: migration and border, children's fantasies, binational social problems, the feminist movement, youthful reflections, the trajectory of Tijuana boxing, poetics in the first person, as well as pieces that address the pandemic period that we have just gone through,” Trujillo explained.