Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna Documentary Film Festival is Heading to LA Angela Santos - FOX News Latino
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Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, co-founders of the traveling documentary film festival, talk about the inception of Ambulante, the power of cinema, and the upcoming launch of Ambulante California. (Christine Davila)

Mexico’s largest documentary film festival, Ambulante, will be expanding to California this September. After nine years of taking hundreds of documentaries to Mexican cities large and small, Ambulante will now cross the border in search of new vibrant communities.

This week, Ambulante directors announced their expansion in the same place they first launched back in 2006 — the Sundance Film Festival. They said the first screenings will take place in the greater Los Angeles area, under the name of Ambulante California.

“It has been great to come back and now announce an expansion,” said Elena Fortes, Ambulante’s executive director. “We wanted to have a space where we could reach out to a larger film community and Sundance offers that.”

The nonprofit festival founded by the Mexican trio Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Pablo Cruz in 2005 aims at sparking social change by bringing non-fiction films to people who otherwise likely wouldn’t see them.

Ambulante has brought documentaries to all sorts of audiences across Mexico, and Fortes said in some ways taking it to such a diverse city as Los Angeles will be a similar experience.

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