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The organizers of the San Diego Latino Film Festival learned something surprising after going virtual last year: Less really is more.
In its pre-pandemic editions, the 28-year-old festival presented up to 200 films annually, the same number it screened virtually last year. For 2021, the number of films will be halved and will include two drive-in movie nights.
“If you log on to festivals and see so much content that you spend 30 minutes finding a movie, you don’t want to watch anything,” said Moisés Esparza, programming manager of Media Arts Center San Diego, the nonprofit that produces the festival. “It can be overwhelming — akin to Netflix. But our films are carefully selected by curators to make it easy for viewers to make choices.”