The festival kicks off at The 4th Street Theatre with the dynamic film about boxing sensation, Roberto Duran, HANDS OF STONE.
Lisa Genova is a neuroscientist and award-winning author. Her debut novel Still Alice, and the subsequent movie, is about a Harvard professor who suffers from early onset Alzheimer's disease. Subsequent novels dealing with under-standing autism and traumatic brain injury are about people with neurological diseases and conditions that are feared, ignored, or misunderstood. Her novels bring humanity, and hopefully understanding, to the science and statistics be-hind them.
CInema Latino continues at the 4th Street Theatre with the Yakima premiere of NERUDA , about the iconic Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.