Sponsorship

2025 Opportunities

Film Festival sponsorship, artist / audience engagement, filmmaker forums & youth workshops are just a few of the ways that PHLAFF provides a platform for brands to activate in unique and innovative ways to the Latino and Latinx community. We have a long history of successfully collaborating with brands that support the work we do as a non-profit and that share our values of independent spirit, creativity, innovation and storytelling.

BY SPONSORING PHLAFF YOU WILL:

  • Target new, engaged and diverse audiences across all age groups

  • Make a high visibility investment through various media, social media and live forums

  • Increase brand loyalty and appreciation

  • Support arts, education and community on a local, national and international level

Why PHLAFF?

“Festivals such as PHLAFF put us on a larger stage and create more channels for us to get our stories out. We need to build solidarity with Latino communities across the nation — the globe even — and PHLAFF allows us to connect with them and amplify the voices of our people.”
— Michael Shawn Cordero, Defend Puerto Rico

PHLAFF attracts a diverse audience and provides a space for filmmakers, actors, and producers to meet other artists, engage with audiences, and present and discuss innovative work.

PHLAFF engages the region through the universal language of film, creating critical connections, shared experiences, and cross-cultural understanding.

As part of our commitment to uplift and celebrate Latine creatives and interdisciplinary practices intentionally, we are expanding/infusing our programming with other disciplines. At the close of our 2023 season, PHLAFF announced that we would be transitioning from the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival to the Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival.

Our annual celebration of Latino and Latinx cinema offers us the wonderful opportunity to bring folks together to build community. PHLAFF's programming focuses on the diverse experiences and realities of our people. Our team is grounded in our commitment to share the power of film to facilitate dialogue, build bridges and serve as a tool for social change in our communities. Sponsoring PHLAFF will provide your brand the opportunity to connect with a diverse audience while supporting Latine/x/a/o filmmakers.

Festival Key Metrics & Audience

  • 864 films and 591 premieres presented to date

  • 24,000+ attendees

  • Over 300 volunteers and counting

  • 25 venues and counting

  • 20,000 yearly unique visitors via PHLAFF.ORG

  • Most represented ages 25-34; followed by ages 35-44

  • 43% Women / 51% Men / 6% Non-binary

  • Mostly bilingual (English / Spanish) and Spanish speakers

Select Past Films

    • Sons of Monarchs directed by Alexis Gambis — Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival

    • Nuevo Rico directed by Kristian Mercado — Winner of the Jury Award – Animated Short at SXSW 2021

    • Fruits of Labor directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez — US Broadcast via PBS POV American Documentary

    • Retablo directed by Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio — Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards

    • Everybody Changes (Todos Cambiamos) directed by Arturo Montenegro — Panamanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards

    • Song Without a Name (Canción sin nombre) directed by Melina León — Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards

    • Yo Imposible (Being Impossible) directed by Patricia Ortega — Venezuelan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards

    • José directed by Cheng Li — The first Guatemala and Central America film ever presented in Venice Film Festival

    • Cocote directed by Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias — Dominican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards

    • Ruben Blades Is Not My Name directed by Abner Benaim — Panamanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards

Past Sponsors & Community Partners