Giselle De La Rosa: Always late but worth the wait

This week on Ilse Will Say, Ilse sits down with Giselle De La Rosa, associate director at Cine Las Americas and a SXSW film festival screener, for a behind-the-scenes conversation about film festival programming, short film submissions, festival curation, and what makes a film stand out fast. Giselle shares what it’s like to watch hundreds of documentary shorts, why the first 30 seconds of a short film can reveal so much, and how screeners balance instinct, taste, community, and the brutal math of limited festival slots.Ilse and Giselle also get into Latine storytelling, Latin American cinema, Indigenous stories, Austin film culture, The Artist’s Way, morning pages, creative burnout, community building, coffee withdrawal, and being “always late, but worth the wait.” Giselle also shares more about Cine Las Americas Film Festival, its mission to showcase films centered on Latinidad and Indigenous life, and the importance of creating spaces for underrepresented filmmakers.Follow Giselle @cosasdelarosa and support Cine Las Americas @cinelasamericasiff, especially if you’re in Austin and love film festivals, independent cinema, community screenings, and the people doing the real work behind the scenes.Hosted by Ilse Zacharias Rivera. Say hi / follow along here: @ilsezachariasMentioned in this episode:Thank you to our sponsor, Joel Maisonet Photography: maisonetphotography.com