GSC Film Screening featuring “Lulu en el Jardín” by Jose Luis Benavides
@ UIC Latino Cultural Center
803 S Morgan St, Lecture Center B2, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, November 4th, from 12PM - 1:30PM
GSC Film Screening featuring “Lulu en el Jardín” by Jose Luis Benavides
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
12:00 – 1:30 PM
UIC Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2, 803 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
Free & Open to the Public
Refreshments Provided
The Latino Cultural Center is wheelchair accessible. For accommodations or questions, please email: Igbtqa@uic.edu
LuLu en el Jardín is an experimental documentary film that details Benavides’s mother’s journey migrating from Mexico City to the West Side of Chicago during her adolescence in the 1970s. The film specifically explores her struggles with identity, the challenges of migration, and her subsequent forced institutionalization by her family at the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center after she came out as a lesbian.
A discussion with the filmmaker, Jose Luis Benavides (UIC Alumnus, CADA MFA; and current Assistant Professor at Idaho State University), will be part of the screening.
This program is part of the Gender and Sexuality Center’s “Queer & Trans Latine Liberation” theme in honor of the Latino Cultural Center’s 50th anniversary. The Latino Cultural Center is wheelchair accessible. For accommodations or questions, please email: Igbtqa@uic.edu
Campus Co-Sponsors:
College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts; Gender and Women’s Studies; Institute for the Humanities; Latin American and Latino Studies; Queer & Trans Studies Working Group; Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center; and UIC Heritage Garden
Community Sponsor: Latine Film Gang
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